significant_projects practice_name nationality article_title birth_date significant_awards education name
sydney millennium dome , london the globe theatre , london the opera state mosque , sarawak house timber gridshell , mannheim , germany buro happold british ian liddell
 1938 cbe engineering , macrobert award , award of merit in structural , engineering istructe gold medal , royal academy of cambridge of engineering , honorary fellow of the royal institution of university british architects , uk and of the royal academy william ian liddell
ian liddell

william ian liddell -lrb- born 1938 -rrb- cbe freng fistructe hon friba is a structural engineer and the designer of london 's millennium dome .
he was one of the founding partners of buro happold and is a royal academy visiting professor of engineering design at cambridge university school of engineering .
he is now a consultant for buro happold .
he studied mechanical sciences at st john 's college , cambridge followed by a diploma in concrete structures at imperial college , london .
he was project engineer on the sydney opera house , playing a significant role in the formfinding of the iconic roofs .
he received the istructe gold medal in 1999 .
for his work as chief design engineer on london 's millennium dome project , he was appointed commander of the most excellent order of the british empire -lrb- cbe -rrb- in the 1999 new year honours .
ian has an interest in the encouragement of the next generation of engineers and designers .
to this end he is a trustee of both the arkwright scholarships trust and the smallpeice trust .
