Ove Arup and Partners
Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, UK which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm has over 11,000 staff based in 92 offices across 42 countries, and is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.
The firm was founded in London in 1946, as the Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers by Sir Ove Nyquist Arup. Arup set out to build a firm where professionals of diverse disciplines could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation.
In 1963, together with the architect Philip Dowson, Arup Associates was formed.
In 1970, the firm reformed as Ove Arup and Partners.