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Arup around the world Our markets
‹‹ Marina Bay Sands, Singapore ‹‹ Fundación Caixa Galicia, La Coruña
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Arup in Spain Sustainability
‹‹ Bodegas Portia, Burgos ‹‹ Palmas Altas, Seville
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Our services
‹‹ Picasso Museum, Malaga
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore ©Arup/Darren Soh
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It is the driving force, the inspiration behind many innovative and sustainable
buildings, civil engineering projects and urban planning and public transit
schemes.
Founded in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup, our company has since grown into an
international group with over 13,000 professionals operating out of 92 offices
in 40 countries on all six inhabited continents. We adopt an integrated, multi-
disciplinary approach to provide our clients with business counsel and efficient
solutions for the built environment. At any given time, we are involved in
around 11,000 projects in over 100 countries.
Our experience is the result of the input from each of Arup’s teams, whose
components form an international network of coordinated professionals able to
operate and participate in world-scale plans adapted to local needs.
We aim to provide technical and business solutions for both building and urban
planning, implementing policies that prioritise energy efficiency and the use of
renewables.
Infanta Sofía Hospital, Madrid
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Arup has clients in both the private and public sectors, with projects in Spain
and abroad in building, urban planning, civil and industrial engineering,
technical consulting and comprehensive project management.
Due to the brisk pace of growth in projects outside Spain, we have close ties
with offices in other European countries, as well as in Middle Eastern, African
and Latin American markets. Our local professionals are fully available for
relocation as required by project demands.
We have proven experience in the urban, health, railway and maritime sectors,
but also in office building, cultural centre and retail construction, property
rehabilitation and specialised consultancy. In addition, we provide technical
consultancy services for financial institutions involved in PFI/PPP-type privately
financed public projects.
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Transport
Suitable transport and logistics planning is essential to the efficiency
and sustainability of the social and economic fabric. Our discipline
encompasses concept, planning, design and use of a wide variety
of transport and logistics projects: from the study of their market
potential and operational design to the drafting of business, feasibility
and operating plans.
Infrastructure
We have the skills needed to maintain and develop basic
infrastructure for social progress.
Property
Social infrastructure
Transport infrastructure
Energy, resources and industry
RCD Espanyol Stadium, Barcelona
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Offices
The creation of comfortable space adaptable to rental market fluctuations is
a basic feature of the office buildings designed by Arup. Our projects meet
established cost, timing, quality and market adaptability requirements.
Our services range from structural engineering, M&E services and civil works
to fire safety assessments, lighting engineering, traffic and access planning,
environmental, acoustic and façade analysis and comprehensive project and
asset management.
Retail
We provide retail park consultancy and design services for both de novo
construction and remodelling. We understand the developer’s and other actors’
needs in a market that has evolved from a rather simple to a more complex and
demanding model.
We explore the design of the entire product life cycle and furnish technical
solutions for Europe’s major investors. We also make multi-disciplinary
recommendations respecting market variations and risks as well as project
sustainability.
Hotels
Arup develops hotel facilities that guarantee a high standard of user comfort
while controlling operating costs to ensure a reasonable return on investment.
Our “total design” approach entails participation from the earliest stages of a
hotel project, including the choice of the best location from the standpoints of
demography, geotechnical features, access, acoustics and environmental impact.
Land use
Most of the planet’s population lives in urban environments, and the percentage
of urbanites is expected to continue to rise.
Arup develops new urban models based on social, economic and environmental
viability, deploying sustainability tools from the outset and pioneering proposals
that are new to both the national and the international marketplace. To that end,
it participates in multi-disciplinary teams to address the complexity of these
processes and their impact. Our transport, urban engineering, sustainability and
comprehensive project management teams develop feasible models for our public
and private clients that are compatible with the surrounding natural, economic
and social environment.
Rehabilitation
When reforming existing buildings, Arup seeks to meet user needs, reduce
energy consumption and improve environmental performance.
To reach those goals, we offer strategies that identify, analyse, and satisfactorily
assess the potential risks inherent in property purchases or sales.
We offer financial counsel with tools such as Asset Map, conduct the
engineering throughout the process, help clients obtain environmental
certification and offer advice on legislation and available subsidies.
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Plaza de la Encarnación, Seville
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Health
Arup’s professionals engage in each and every one of the basic engineering
disciplines needed for the design of all manner of health facilities, from large-
scale hospitals to laboratories, specialised clinics and out-patient wards.
Education
Arup adopts a global view of academic facility planning and design. Our
projects include libraries, laboratories, dormitories, classrooms and other
educational buildings.
We work with public and private clients in all stages of a project, from needs
assessment, planning, design and construction, up to and including fitting out,
post-occupational support and M&E management during building use.
Railways
We provide engineering design, planning and project management services for
the construction, civil transportation and manufacturing associated with railway
building.
Ports
We furnish specialised hydraulic, geotechnical, structural engineering, railway,
planning, M&E service and logistics know-how. We share our clients’ needs
and priorities and consistently deliver more than expected. Our teams bring
together investors, port authorities, shipping companies, equipment suppliers
and contractors.
Airports
Our multi-disciplinary vision translates into total engineering services applied
to master planning, passenger terminals, runway area facilities, hangars and
freight terminals.
At Arup, the best airport architects, planners and designers work in conjunction
with experts in other disciplines such as fire safety, vibrations and acoustics,
energy, geotechnical surveying, tunnels, environmental engineering, economic
planning, contracting and project management.
Our markets | Transport infrastructure
Tunnels
We offer comprehensive design and project management for tunnelling, large-
scale excavations, deep foundations, mine digging and stabilisation.
We use risk engineering techniques to assess actions and develop the most
suitable safety plans. We also have an excellent command of operator
requirements, including long-term maintenance, retrofitting, international
standards and local regulations.
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Energy
Arup’s experience in the energy sector encompasses demand-side management,
generation and distribution. We offer strategic consultancy, engineering design
and site supervision services for clients the world over.
Our experience and expertise cover energy efficiency and renewables, as well
as electric power and heat generation, transmission and distribution. The areas
addressed include building design, urban and strategic planning for public
authorities and private companies seeking the most sustainable energy solutions.
Our low carbon management strategies also bear in mind social and financial
implications and the business models that render such strategies feasible.
Arup helps develop energy demand and CO2 emission reduction and
management strategies based on efficient energy use, furnishing sustainable
solutions applicable to both the global and local energy context.
Water
Arup understands the challenges and opportunities implicit in the management
of such a valuable resource as water. Urgent world-wide needs must be
addressed, including a suitable source of potable water, wastewater collection,
flood prevention and management, and the creation and conservation of natural
environments.
Our specialists’ tasks include establishing criteria for the detailed design of
municipal water supply and wastewater collection facilities, water resource
planning and flood risk management. We consider all aspects of the urban
water cycle to offer strategies for reaching sustainability objectives without
jeopardising the environment or human health.
Our markets | Energy, resources and industry
Waste management
Efficient waste management envisions producer responsibility from the design
stage and addresses aspects such as reuse, recycling, composting and waste-to-
energy from a comprehensive approach geared to the remanufacture of discarded
products.
Arup offers a wide range of services for resource and waste management
that covers the entire life cycle of a project. Strategic consultancy on policies,
financing and public contracting, environmental permits and business models
gives way to the design and implementation of sustainable strategies for
waste planning and management, the selection of supplies and materials and
environmental impact assessment, as well as the civil engineering involved in
waste infrastructure and rubbish tip design.
BREEAM®
BREEAM® has a longer tradition and greater experience than any
other international certification system for sustainable building
methodology. Our BREEAM® certification services draw from a
team of over 20 professionals with global and local expertise and
experience in over 50 projects.
SPeAR®
SPeAR® is a tool developed by Arup to test project feasibility,
providing an integrated approach to natural resource, environmental,
economic and social management. The tool is based on a combination
of sustainability indicators compiled from over 120 sub-indicators.
SPeAR identifies strengths and weaknesses from an assessment of
project features based on those indicators.
VERDE
VERDE is a method for the environmental assessment and
certification of buildings developed by GBC Spain, based on impact
measurement that uses internationally accepted criteria adapted to
Spanish national needs.
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