Mike Glover

Mike Glover
Mike Glover
Work
Engineering discipline Civil engineer
Structural engineer
Institution memberships Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Structural Engineers
Royal Academy of Engineering
Practice name Arup
Significant projects Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Michael John Glover, FREng, is a British Engineer and a director of Arup and technical director of 'Rail Link Engineering'.

Career

Hong Kong Headquarters of HSBC Bank

Mike Glover joined Arup as a graduate in 1969 having trained as a civil and structural engineer. He worked on Foster and Partners' Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, followed by the design and execution of projects in the oil and gas industry. He subsequently became Technical Director and Deputy Project Director for the £5.8bn high speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), a position he has held throughout its design, construction, commissioning and handover.[1]

Awards

Model showing the current redevelopment of the King's Cross area with the new extension to the barrel-vaulted St Pancras Station on the left.

Glover was made a fellow of Arup in 2006, to "recognise the highest design and technical achievements of an Arup person".[2]

Glover was awarded the 2007 Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering,[3] and the Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal in 2008 'for his outstanding contributions to the design and construction of major multi-disciplinary projects, including tall buildings, energy projects and large transportation and infrastructure projects around the world'.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mike Glover (Sep 2007). "High Speed 1". Ingenia (Royal Academy of Engineering) (32). http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?index=426. 
  2. ^ "Mike Glover, Arup Fellow". Arup. http://www.arup.com/arup/feature.cfm?pageid=8577. 
  3. ^ "Arup Fellow awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal". Arup. http://www.arup.com/unitedkingdom/newsitem.cfm?pageid=9924. 
  4. ^ "Channel Tunnel Rail Link engineer receives IStructE's Gold Medal for 2008". Institution of Structural Engineers. http://www.istructe.org/news/article.asp?NID=392. 


v · d · eIStructE Gold Medal Winners

Henry Adams (1922) • John Baker (1953) • Eugène Freyssinet (1957) • Hardy Cross (1958) • Félix Candela (1960) • William Glanville (1962) • John Guthrie Brown (1964) • Pier Luigi Nervi (1967) • Alfred Pugsley (1968) • Knud Johansen (1971) • Yves Guyon (1972) • Ove Arup (1973) • Henry Husband (1973) • Fritz Leonhardt (1975) • Oleg Kerensky (1977) • Nathan M. Newmark (1979) • Riccardo Morandi (1980) • Alec Skempton (1981) • Alan Harris (1984) • Frank Newby (1985) • Michael Horne (1986) • Alan Garnett Davenport (1987) • Anthony Flint (1988) • Gerhard Jack Zunz (1988) • Jörg Schlaich (1990) • Edmund Happold (1991) • Olgierd Zienkiewicz (1991) • Santiago Calatrava (1992) • Anthony Hunt (1994) • Michel Virlogeux (1996) • John Burland (1997) • F. Michael Burdekin (1997) • William Ian Liddell (1999) • Duncan Michael (2000) • Cheng Hon Kwan (2001) • Sam Thorburn (2003) • Leslie E. Robertson (2004) • John Roberts (2005) • Roger Johnson (2006) • Joseph Locke (2007) • Mike Glover (2008) • David A. Nethercot (2009) • William F. Baker (engineer) (2010) •


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