Design driven

NAEEM HUSSAIN

Bridge business leader, Arup

Education
Hussain initially studied engineering at the West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore

1967 Design studies, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
1971 DIC, MSc (Concrete Structures), Imperial College

Notable projects
1988 Design leader for Second Severn Crossing
1994 Project director for the design of Øresund Crossing, Denmark-Sweden
1994 Design leader for Hulme Arch Bridge, Manchester
1996 Engineering manager for civil engineering structures on Channel Tunnel Rail Link
1997 Bridge engineer for Thames Gateway Bridge, London
2001 Project director for Third Macau-Taipa Bridge, Macao
2001 Project manager for Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong
2008 Main crossing manager for Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland

If you drive in the UK, you’ve almost certainly driven across one of Naeem Hussain’s bridges. The Thames Gateway bridge at Dartford is one of his, as is the Second Severn Crossing linking England and Wales and the Hulme Arch bridge in Manchester. His structures span waterways around the world, from Nigeria  to Hong Kong, where he was lead designer of Stonecutter’s Bridge, one of the world’s longest cable-stayed bridges with a span of more than a kilometre. And he’s about  to make his mark at a site that can only be described as iconic — the Forth Estuary in Scotland, next to the Forth Bridge, probably Britain’s best-known engineered structure.