| Time: | January 28, 2025, 6:00 p.m. (CET) |
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| Event language: | English |
| Meeting mode: | hybrid |
| Venue: | Universität Stuttgart Campus Vaihingen Hörsaal V 47.03 Pfaffenwaldring 47 70569 Stuttgart Link: online participation via Webex |
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About the presentation:
Roger Ridsdill Smith is a Structural Engineer, Senior Partner and Head of Structural Engineering at Foster + Partners. Roger will describe the work of the Structural team at Foster and Partners and give some thoughts on the future of structural engineering in the current climate crisis.
About the presenting person:
After graduating from Cambridge University, Roger started work in Paris, before moving to Arup in London where he became a Director in 2003.
Past projects include the London Millennium Bridge and Citibank tower at Canary Wharf. Recent and ongoing projects include towers in New York, Lusail, Budapest, Shenzhen and Manila, airports in Panama, Phnom Penh, and Warsaw, a medical school in Mumbai, and the new Ellison Institute Laboratories in Oxford.
Roger is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, Associate Editor for the ICE Structures and Buildings Journal and member of the British Standards code committee for concrete.
About the lecture series "Tragwerke - Entwurf, Modellierung und Konstruktion"
[Picture: Foster + Partners]
