Summer Placement - Civil Engineer - Infrastructure

Summer Placement – Civil Engineer – Infrastructure – Bath

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From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Infrastructure team in our Bath office for an 8-week summer placement.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

We have an exciting opportunity for a current student to join our Infrastructure team, based in our vibrant office in Bath.

At Buro Happold we offer an integrated multi-disciplinary service throughout the whole project life cycle, from planning through to design and implementation. We take pride in working closely with clients, collaborators and stakeholders to deliver cost effective and sustainable outcomes. Recognising that infrastructure is often the “glue” that binds developments together, we aim to take a proactive approach to problem solving and coordination.

We are a truly global company with our offices and live projects spanning the world. We work with leading architects, project managers, contractors, local and national authorities and developers and are currently working on some of the most exciting projects in the UK and around the world. We can offer fantastic career opportunities and the chance to be at the cutting edge of creativity in the built environment.

Our project portfolio and global initiative provides excellent opportunities for international travel.

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The work the Infrastructure team undertakes is diverse in terms of scale, location, development type and the point at which we are engaged through the life of the project. We strive to ensure that our placement students are given the opportunity to work across a varied portfolio of projects to broaden your skills during the early stages or your career.

Our expertise ranges from city scale master planning through to campus and building scale development infrastructure. Here are some of the projects that we are currently engaged on:

Regeneration – Buro Happold have provided engineering solutions for a number of key regeneration projects in the UK such as the redevelopment of the iconic Battersea Power Station where alongside providing the developments infrastructure solutions, we led the design of two new tube stations and their integration into the surrounding development, unlocking a new transport solution for the site and wider Vauxhall Elms and Battersea opportunity area.

Public Realm Improvements – our infrastructure team works closely with Landscape Architects to deliver high quality public realm such as Mayfield in Manchester a landmark regeneration project that has transformed a derelict area of central Manchester into the first new public park on the banks of the River Medlock in more than a century.

Stadia and Arena – Claimed to be the largest building construction project currently in the UK, our team has been busy with the start on site  have been working on this project providing all infrastructure design from site selection stage through to our current engagement for the contractor, as their designer. We have also overseen the completion of the new Compton and Edrich stands at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

Our team have also been designing the new Co‑op arena in Manchester – the largest capacity indoor Arena in Europe, which has just started on site.

Healthcare – We recently have delivered two large masterplan projects for Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar working alongside international architects for whole city districts. In parallel we were engaged on an exciting research project for the same client to define a prototype for the Hospital of the Future, a very…