Arup
What we do:
Founded in 1946, Arup has grown into one of the worlds, most renowned civil engineering and building consultancies.
Dedicated to sustainable development, it is is a collective of 18,500 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries.
Founded to be both humane and excellent, they collaborate with clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.
Arup’s work is extensive - from individual buildings, to complex city centre sites like Paradise Birmingham, supporting Copenhagen’s carbon neutral ambition, or helping Japan fulfil its offshore wind farm potential.
For People and Planet :
Arup's people are working at the forefront of a more sustainable world, developing new approaches to the built and natural environments we all share.
As a firm, they continue to make significant commitments that will lead to greater conservation of resources, biodiversity, and energy, in everything they do.
Arup's teams have committed to undertaking whole lifecycle carbon assessments for all buildings projects – new and retrofit.
In addition to this, they will not be taking on any new energy commissions involving the extraction, refinement, or transportation of hydrocarbon-based fuels.
Why we do it:
Arup’s shared values are derived from the beliefs and convictions of its founder, the engineer and philosopher Sir Ove Arup. He believed that work was only valuable when it had something higher to strive for.
Many years later that philosophy remains at the core of the practice - that work is truly profitable when it shapes a better world.
Arup’s primary goal is to develop a truly sustainable built environment. This means that in all their work, the teams aim to identify a balance between the needs of a growing world population and the finite capacity and health of our planet.
The People who do it:
Arup is dedicated to sustainable development, doing socially useful work that has meaning, improves lives and shapes a better world.
Their extraordinary collective provides expertise across all areas of the built environment from strategic approach and planning to design and engineering.
The business is owned in trust by its members, a structure that allows the group the freedom to set its own direction and opportunities – independently.
Arup chooses work that aligns with its values, working with clients on ambitious projects that will set new standards.
“We don’t believe in the idea of ‘no, it can’t be done’. If there’s a way to do it, we’ll find it. If there isn’t a way, we’ll invent it.”
This attitude has made Arup not only a market leader but thought leader in sustainable development.
Into the Future:
After millennia of human development, exploitation of natural resources and nature loss, regenerative design explores how we can restore and regenerate planetary health through the way we design our buildings, neighbourhoods, cities, and spaces.
The fundamental principle is that we can both drive sustainable human development and simultaneously replenish planetary ecosystems by working in harmony with nature instead of against it.
Regenerative design is an approach in which human and natural systems are designed to co-exist and co-evolve over time. The value of a regenerative design approach is in its potential to regenerate planetary health and deliver positive outcomes for both people and planet.
