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The Institution of Structural Engineers is a British professional body for structural engineers .

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19-740: (Redirected from IStructE Gold Medal ) Award for exceptional and outstanding contributions to structural engineering [REDACTED] This article relies excessively on references to primary sources . Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources . Find sources:   "Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( January 2020 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Award Gold Medal Awarded for Exceptional and outstanding contributions to

38-429: A capital divided into shares. It was renamed the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1922, when its areas of interest were extended to cover 'structures' of all kinds. By 1925 the Institution had 1,700 members and has continued to grow over the years. It has fifty groups worldwide. The first woman member to be elected as an Associate member was Florence Mary Taylor in 1926. It took until 1947 for Mary Irvine to be

57-560: A partnership created by Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners and Anglian Water International, won a two-year contract from the United Kingdom Government's Overseas Development Administration to study the impact of industrial effluent in the city of Tianjin in China . The partnership's task was to investigate the technical, institutional, environmental, and financial issues involved in reducing industrial wastewater production and improving

76-564: Is different from Wikidata Official website not in Wikidata Institution of Structural Engineers In 2021, it had 29,900 members operating in 112 countries. It provides professional accreditation and publishes a magazine, The Structural Engineer , which has been produced monthly since 1924. It also has a research journal, Structures , published by Elsevier . The Institution gained its Royal Charter in March 1934. It

95-2539: Is named as IStructE Gold Medallist 2021" . IStructE . Retrieved 28 May 2021 . ^ "Naeem Hussain honoured with IStructE Gold Medal" . Arup . Retrieved 20 July 2022 . ^ "Albert Williamson-Taylor is named as IStructE Gold Medallist 2023" . IStructE . Retrieved 16 February 2023 . ^ https://www.istructe.org/resources/news/professor-werner-sobek-is-named-istructe%E2%80%99s-2024-go/ v t e IStructE Gold Medal winners Henry Adams (1922) John Baker (1953) Eugène Freyssinet (1957) Hardy Cross (1958) Félix Candela (1960) William Glanville (1962) John Guthrie Brown (1964) Pier Luigi Nervi (1967) Alfred Pugsley (1968) Knud Winstrup Johansen (1971) Yves Guyon (1972) Ove Arup (1973) Charles Husband (1973) Fritz Leonhardt (1975) Oleg Kerensky (1977) Nathan M. Newmark (1979) Riccardo Morandi (1980) Alec Skempton (1981) Alan Harris (1984) Frank Newby (1985) Michael Horne (1986) Alan Garnett Davenport (1987) Anthony Flint (1988) Jack Zunz (1988) Jörg Schlaich (1990) Edmund Happold (1991) Olgierd Zienkiewicz (1991) Santiago Calatrava (1992) Anthony Hunt (1994) Michel Virlogeux (1996) John Burland (1997) Michael Burdekin (1998) Ian Liddell (1999) Duncan Michael (2000) Cheng Hon-kwan (2001) Sam Thorburn (2003) Leslie E. Robertson (2004) John Roberts (2005) Roger Johnson (2006) Joseph Locke (2007) Mike Glover (2008) David A. Nethercot (2009) William F. Baker (2010) Allan Mann (2011) Paul Westbury (2012) Chris Wise (2012) Man-Chung Tang (2013) Tristram Carfrae (2014) Mike Schlaich (2015) Robert Halvorson (2016) Jo da Silva (2017) Ding Jiemin (2018) James O'Callaghan (2019) Michael Cook (2020) Paul Fast (2021) Naeem Hussain (2022) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gold_Medal_of_the_Institution_of_Structural_Engineers&oldid=1247232976 " Categories : IStructE Gold Medal winners Structural engineering awards British awards Awards established in 1922 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles lacking reliable references from January 2020 All articles lacking reliable references Short description

114-971: The Kincardine Bridge across the Firth of Forth , then Britain's largest road bridge. In 1937, the firm designed the Capper Pass and Son smelting works (as well as a row of houses) in Hull . In 1939, Gibb designed the new Allied Bakeries building, in St Pauls Cray (near Orpington ). Originally the Tip Top Bakery in Cray Avenue, it is now part of the Allied Bakeries division of Associated British Foods . From 1939 Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners designed three large ordnance factories (including ROF Swynnerton ) for

133-746: The Lar Dam in Iran, Victoria Dam in Sri Lanka (1975-1985), and the Samanalawewa Dam project also in Sri Lanka (1993). Problems emerged on the Samanalawewa project and two years after its completion, its reservoir still could not be filled because its base was leaking. One Sri Lankan geologist has warned: "Samanalawewa is a write off". Also, the Victoria Dam in Sri Lanka has not produced the amount of energy envisaged by

152-976: The Ministry of Supply; three other smaller factories followed later. Also during World War II, the Drakelow Tunnels near Kidderminster were designed and constructed. In 1949, Cliff Quay Power Station in Suffolk was designed. In 1954, the firm completed the Owen Falls Dam in Uganda. In 1967, it started working on the Cerros Colorados Complex in Argentina , provided design and construction management until its completion in 1979. Between 1967 and 1970 Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners designed Baghdad International Airport. In 1968, Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners

171-656: The UK, the firm worked on Waterloo International Railway Terminal between 1988 and 1993, with Grimshaw Architects and Bovis Construction (as the main contractors), Brook House in Park Lane in London (with Squire and Partners ), Reading Crown Court , and HM Prison High Down , Surrey . In 1989, the firm merged with the larger American company, Law Engineering and Environmental Services, based in Atlanta, Georgia . In June 1994, GibbAnglian,

190-475: The advancement of structural engineering Sponsored by Institution of Structural Engineers Date 1922  ( 1922 ) Country United Kingdom Website Official website The Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers is awarded by the Institution of Structural Engineers for exceptional and outstanding contributions to the advancement of structural engineering. It

209-718: The designer. By the late 1980s/early 1990s, the firm was organised as a number of specialised departments in Reading, namely Water and Energy (WAE), Transportation and Marine (TAM), Structures and Services (SAS), Project Management Services (PMS) and Gibb Architects. Outside of the United Kingdom, the firm had associated practices including Gibb Africa (headquartered in Nairobi , Kenya), Gibb Botswana (operating from Gaborone ), Gibb Petermuller (headquartered in Athens ) and Gibb Mauritius . In

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228-650: The first ten years the business was not very rewarding financially although it was engaged on several important projects. Gibb and his colleague, noted electrical engineer Charles Hesterman Merz, designed Barking Power Station and later (between 1930 and 1936), the modernist power stations of the Galloway hydro-electric power scheme , the first major work of its kind to be linked to the National Grid . The firm also worked on Maentwrog New Dam in Wales (1928). In 1936, it designed

247-450: The first women to be elected a Chartered Member, and until 1954 when Marjem Chatterton was the first woman elected as a Fellow. Sir Alexander Gibb %26 Partners Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners was a British firm of consulting civil engineers , founded in 1922 by Sir Alexander Gibb , and initially headquartered in London before moving west to Reading in Berkshire in 1974 to

266-450: The former site of Suttons Seeds. In 1989, the firm merged with Atlanta, Georgia -based Law Engineering and Environmental Services. In 2001 Law sold the Gibb business to another US-based firm, Jacobs Engineering Group . The firm had been founded in 1922 by Scottish civil engineer , Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb , whom was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1936. For

285-455: The original on 21 July 2015 . Retrieved 3 September 2015 . ^ "Century of Medallists: IStructE Gold" (PDF) . Institution of Structural Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-16. ^ "The Gold Medal Award" . Institution of Structural Engineers . Retrieved 3 June 2017 . ^ "Dr Mike Cook named 2020 Gold Medallist" . IStructE . Retrieved 7 March 2020 . ^ "Paul Fast

304-586: The quality of effluent discharges. In 1997, remedial works were carried out on Owen Falls dam under supervision by the consulting firm. American parent Law sold Gibb to the US-based Jacobs Engineering Group in February 2001. The firm was based at Queen Anne's Lodge, Queen Anne's Gate and subsequently Telford House, Tothill Street, Westminster, London , until 1974, when it relocated to Earley House, 427 London Road, Reading, Berkshire . which

323-597: Was established at the Ritz Hotel , London on 21 July 1908 as the Concrete Institute, as the result of a need to define standards and rules for the proper use of concrete in the construction industry. H. Kempton Dyson was one of the founder members and the first permanent secretary. On 22 February 1909, the Institution was incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862-1907 as a company limited by guarantee not having

342-5314: Was established in 1922. Recipients [ edit ] Year Recipient(s) Company 1922 [REDACTED] Henry Adams Henry Adams 1953 [REDACTED] John Baker University of Cambridge 1957 [REDACTED] Eugène Freyssinet Campenon-Bernard 1958 [REDACTED] Hardy Cross Yale University 1959 not awarded 1960 [REDACTED] Félix Candela Félix Candela 1961 not awarded 1962 [REDACTED] William Glanville Road Research Laboratory 1963 not awarded 1964 [REDACTED] John Guthrie Brown Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners 1965 not awarded 1966 not awarded 1967 [REDACTED] Pier Luigi Nervi University of Rome 1968 [REDACTED] Sir Alfred Pugsley University of Bristol 1969 not awarded 1970 not awarded 1971 [REDACTED] Knud Winstrup Johansen University of Michigan 1972 [REDACTED] Yves Guyon Campenon-Bernard 1973 [REDACTED] Sir Ove Arup Arup Group [REDACTED] Charles Husband Husband & Co. 1974 not awarded 1975 [REDACTED] Fritz Leonhardt Leonhardt und Andrä 1976 not awarded 1977 [REDACTED] Oleg Kerensky Freeman Fox & Partners 1978 not awarded 1979 [REDACTED] Nathan M. Newmark University of Illinois 1980 [REDACTED] Riccardo Morandi Riccardo Morandi 1981 [REDACTED] Alec Skempton Imperial College London 1982 not awarded 1983 not awarded 1984 [REDACTED] Alan Harris Harris and Sutherland 1985 [REDACTED] Frank Newby F J Samuely & Partners 1986 [REDACTED] Michael Horne University of Manchester 1987 [REDACTED] Alan Garnett Davenport University of Western Ontario 1988 [REDACTED] Anthony Flint Flint & Neill Partnership [REDACTED] Sir Jack Zunz Arup Group 1989 not awarded 1990 [REDACTED] Jörg Schlaich Schlaich Bergermann Partner 1991 [REDACTED] Sir Edmund Happold Buro Happold , Arup Group [REDACTED] Olgierd Zienkiewicz Swansea University 1992 [REDACTED] Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava 1993 not awarded 1994 [REDACTED] Anthony Hunt Anthony Hunt Associates 1995 not awarded 1996 [REDACTED] Michel Virlogeux French Highway Administration 1997 [REDACTED] John Burland Imperial College London 1998 [REDACTED] Michael Burdekin University of Manchester 1999 [REDACTED] Ian Liddell Buro Happold 2000 [REDACTED] Duncan Michael Arup Group 2001 [REDACTED] Cheng Hon-kwan Executive Council of Hong Kong 2002 not awarded 2003 [REDACTED] Sam Thorburn OBE Thorburn Colquhoun 2004 [REDACTED] Leslie E. Robertson Leslie E. Robertson Associates 2005 [REDACTED] John Roberts Jacobs Engineering Group 2006 [REDACTED] Roger Johnson Warwick University , Arup Group 2007 [REDACTED] Joe Locke MBE Watson Steel 2008 [REDACTED] Mike Glover OBE Arup Group 2009 [REDACTED] David A. Nethercot Imperial College London 2010 [REDACTED] William F. Baker Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 2011 [REDACTED] Allan Mann Jacobs Engineering Group 2012 [REDACTED] Paul Westbury Buro Happold [REDACTED] Chris Wise Expedition Engineering , Arup Group 2013 [REDACTED] Man-Chung Tang T. Y. Lin International 2014 [REDACTED] Tristram Carfrae Arup Group 2015 [REDACTED] Mike Schlaich Schlaich Bergermann Partner 2016 [REDACTED] Robert Halvorson Halvorson and Partners 2017 [REDACTED] Jo da Silva OBE Arup Group 2018 [REDACTED] Ding Jiemin Tongji University 2019 [REDACTED] James O'Callaghan Eckersley O'Callaghan 2020 [REDACTED] Michael Cook Buro Happold 2021 [REDACTED] Paul Fast Fast + Epp 2022 [REDACTED] Naeem Hussain Arup Group 2023 [REDACTED] Albert Williamson-Taylor AKT II 2024 [REDACTED] Werner Sobek Werner Sobek AG See also [ edit ] List of engineering awards References [ edit ] ^ "2015 Gold Medal" . Institution of Structural Engineers. Archived from

361-758: Was joint consulting engineer on the Cleddau Bridge in Wales. Other later works included the Tripoli International Airport (1978), Devonport Dockyard , Limehouse Link tunnel (1989-1993), Great Man-Made River Project in Libya and several defence and airport projects in the Middle East, and several hydro-electric dam projects including the design and supervision of Tongariro Hydroelectric Scheme in New Zealand,

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