From helping shape our environment to adapting to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. This opportunity is to join our Fire team this September to be based in our London office.
What do you want to be today?
At Buro Happold you'll have the opportunity to contribute.
What is Fire Engineering?
Every building presents unique fire safety challenges. To fully address life safety and design aspirations, your scheme needs a unique, holistic, creative approach to developing a simple, yet robust, fire safety solution.
Our involvement on projects spans from concept to completion, and further, to occupation and continued operational management. Our clients find this level of continued engagement reassuring as we guide them through the life cycle of the building.
For multiple building portfolio clients such as The National Museums of Scotland and University College London, we provide a complete consultancy service. This includes assessing the capabilities of their existing assets, developing solutions for refurbishment projects and advise on the design of new buildings whilst interfacing with multiple design teams and helping the client with their ongoing building management.
We listen and consult to fully understand the design aspirations for a development, and we facilitate these through imaginative and innovative fire engineering techniques, often working beyond the boundaries of prescriptive code guidance.
What sort of projects would I work on?
CO-OP Live Arena - The new arena in Manchester will have the largest maximum capacity of any indoor music venue in the UK. The goal was for the arena to be among the safest in the world, so we developed the design to achieve a high standard of safety while delivering a flexible layout and optimum music experience in a space designed to welcome the best and biggest artists from around the world.
Battersea Power Station – Repurposing this historic landmark in to a 21st Century destination where people work, rest and play has required us to take a highly creative approach to the brief and developing bespoke designs that deliver added value to our client, and an iconic facility for the city.
King Salman Park - we were tasked with completing a complex parkwide fire strategy for the King Salman Park Project in KSA which underwent a rigorous review by the client and local fire authority. This project was ambitious, as the park is planned to be the largest urban park in the world, seven times the size of London's Hyde Park and five times the size of New York's Central Park.
What would I do?
Develop expertise in delivering fire safety engineering solutions in a multi-disciplinary environment with solid experience in developing fire strategies, undertaking engineering analysis and applying performance based designs.
Work with other members of the team to understand and apply fire safety legislation and design guidance in the UK and internationally as part of global project delivery.
Carry out and review fire engineering calculations including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis from simple hand calculations to complex 3D computational modelling.
Build knowledge to be able to identify appropriate fixed fire protection systems, i.e. automatic fire detection and/or suppression to support fire engineering design solutions.
Communicate and present technical solutions to a variety of clients and stakeholders.
Ensure team members are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions.
Liaise with approval authorities on fire safety designs.
Demonstrate excellent consultancy skills; Good communication and experience in dealing with difficult situations, negotiation and understanding the differing needs of our clients and within stakeholder groups.
Visit sites to see how our fire strategies are implemented in practice.
What degree would I need?
A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree with a prediction of 2:1 or above in an engineering/science subject, such as Fire Engineering, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
What's in it for you?
Broad insight within a team, mentored by a subject matter expert. The opportunity to experience our culture and value, and learn what sets us apart from other organisations. Exposure to a wide range of portfolios, including local community led projects and global large scale clients. The diversity of the projects we work on is one of the many reasons Engineers love to work at Buro Happold.
A plethora of interesting and challenging projects to stretch your professional skills, a friendly and close knit team, flexible working and a competitive reward package. The opportunity to work on multidisciplinary projects aside a range of specialist engineers and designers both within Buro Happold and our collaborators.
Opportunity to join our Young Employee's Forum in your local office, join events/trips, and contribute your experience and learnings to the next generation of engineers through various outreach activities.
Our Graduate Connect program allows our Graduates to learn the fundamentals of design and technology whilst building a base in consulting and professional skills. This is a blended learning programme where participants gain experience against our internal professional and technical frameworks in relation to their specialism.
We see membership of a professional body and professional registration as crucial to the development of our engineers and offer substantial support to those aspiring to achieve this. We aim to support employees to achieve the highest level of membership and registration their academic background allows.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
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