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Having worked having been at the heart of many of our stadia and arena projects over the last 15 years, Fergus is one of our leading sports engineers.

With more than 20 years of industry experience as a structural engineer, Fergus leads our overall project reviews in the Buro Happold Bath office. In his role, he drives insight, creativity, pragmatism, realism and experience to the overall project concepts. Fergus maintains input throughout the process ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness throughout the design stages. In addition, he has also led the structural design for many of our stadia projects and has also acted as a technical review structural engineer when needed.

As well as being an expert in sports stadia, Fergus is also a technical specialist in cable structures, long-span structures, moving structures and their dynamics.

He enjoys the challenge of delivering iconic but also efficient practical world-class buildings through close collaboration with clients, other members of the design team and contractors. Fergus is an enabler, guiding all parties involved to ensure effective and clear decision-making

Throughout his career, he has designed and delivered some of the most high-profile complex and time-critical structural engineering projects of recent years. Eight of his projects have won IStructE awards for design excellence and three have also won IStructE awards for combined design/construction.  

Fergus has three qualifications from the University of Cambridge including a master’s in Interdisciplinary Design of the Built Environment.