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Summer Placement - Urban Strategies

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Buro Happold

Jan 10, 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Architecture & Urban Planning
  • £25.6K
  • London

Requirements

  • Currently studying a degree such as Architecture, Economics, Geography, Urban Planning, social science, environmental science, and/or Real Estate;
  • A keen interest and appreciation of urban/city challenges and the value of providing a spatial understanding and integrated offer (including planning, economics, and technical infrastructure and environmental expertise).
  • Strong communication skills and an ability to work well independently and also in a team;
  • Interest or skills in urban informatics, data science, statistical packages (SPSS, Stata) and/or business intelligence software (MS Power BI, Tableau) would be desirable. And / or design and mapping skills with experience and skills.

Responsibilities

  • What sort of projects do the consulting team work on?
  • Oxford Station, Strategic Business Case:
  • The Urban Strategies team have worked closely with architects to explore the viability of regeneration options for Oxford Station and surrounding land. The team assessed the commercial viability and deliverability of different masterplanning options. The appraisal of each option resulted in a series of recommendations on optimising commercial value. The team has gone on to prepare a strategic business case for the redevelopment, which will be used to unlock funding for the site.
  • Circular and Resilient Tourism in Small Islands & Coastal Destinations:
  • Buro Happold working with the World Bank has crafted a bespoke Circular Economic Development Strategy for Cabo Verde, The Gambia, and São Tomé & Príncipe. This strategy is the product of a collaborative effort involving Buro Happold’s multidisciplinary teams specialising in strategic planning, economics, sustainability, solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, and energy. The Urban Strategies led the multi-disciplinary team to diligently researched the baseline conditions in each of the aforementioned countries with the objective of devising viable interventions. These suggested interventions are aimed at fostering sustainable, circular practices within these countries.
  • Belize Coastal Highway Corridor Structure Plan:
  • Buro Happold has been appointed by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing, part of the Government of Belize to develop a Structure Plan for the highway corridor. The Structure Plan will become a comprehensive and strategic land-use planning document that outlines the long-term vision and development framework for the areas along the Coastal Highway Corridor in Belize. It will provide a blueprint for sustainable and coordinated development, ensuring that urban and rural development does not encroach on the country’s key ecological assets. The Structure Plan will address urban planning regulations, environmental protection, economic growth, and climate resilience through land management. An implementation and institutionalisation plan will be prepared as part of the project, as well as the roles and responsibilities of related institutions.
  • Qiddiya Regional Framework Plan:
  • Qiddiya is a proposed destination capital for entertainment, sport and the arts in Saudi Arabia. Its success will be built on coordination of the necessary supporting infrastructure and facilities for an eventual resident population of 600,000. The Urban Strategies team prepared a Regional Framework Plan to facilitate this, and to be adopted as part of wider planning strategies for Riyadh. The team developed programmes considering environment, heritage, sustainability and resilience. The framework plan document compiled by the team incorporated these key elements to ensure the development progresses sensitively, in accordance with sustainable development principles, and in a way where climate change impacts are planned for and mitigated.
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Buro Happold

Engineering | Consultancy | Advisory

Real Estate
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1976
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We are an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers. For over 45 years, we have built an unrivalled reputation by delivering creative, value-led solutions for the benefit of people, places and planet. Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative' and 'collaborative', Buro Happold is synonymous with the delivery of exceptionally complex projects on every continent, working with the world's leading architectural practices and organisations, such as the United Nations, UNESCO and C40 Cities. Through our global community of driven, world-leading engineering, advisory and design professionals, we are acting to address major challenges in an ever-evolving world.

Culture & Values

  • We value human wellbeing, and are discontented with limitations. We commit to taking this as seriously for our people as our projects.

  • We are a diverse, one-firm culture. When we get it right, it sings. Internal barriers are always to be overcome through inclusivity and equity above all else.

  • We embrace mutual responsibility. It is easy to default to individual success. Teams need to share success and failure in the same way.

  • We are more than a business. We care about the legacy of our work. We have a responsibility of care as an employer and influencer in the shaping of the world.

  • Sustainability is intrinsic to the economic and social impact of our work. Going beyond compliance requires challenging preconceptions, taking extra steps.

  • It takes courage to create. Our culture fosters a dynamic between technology and empathy to gain deeper insight, unleash imagination, and manage risk.

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