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David ScottOve Arup Ltd David
is a Principal at Arup, the international engineering design firm and
has been Chairman of the CTBUH since February 2006. He is a leader of
the Arup New York office responsible for the Building Engineering
Business.David graduated with a first class BSc in Engineering from Edinburgh University and joined the London office of Arup in 1977 as a structural engineer. During his career David has been based in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. He spent 15 years based in South East Asia, working on Arup's first major building projects in China, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. While based in Hong Kong he has worked on many award winning and innovative projects, such as the Hongkong Bank Headquarters, the Biological Sciences Building at HKU, the International Airport Terminal Building in Hong Kong and the 300m Cheung Kong Center for Hong Kong's largest developer. David moved to New York in 1998 to take up a key role in the Arup Buildings Business in the United States. From New York he has worked with leading architects on a wide range of tall buildings, major infrastructure projects and long span structures. These projects included the redevelopment of New York's Penn Station, Second Avenue Subway project which has 16 stations and 8 miles of track as well several commercial tall building projects. In 2001 David was one of the team leaders working with the contractors on the search, recovery and clean-up of the World Trade Center site after 9-11. This was part of the SEoNY led effort that was coordinated by Thornton Thomasetti. And following 9-11 he was extensively involved in the industry review of building design and standards; presenting a paper on Fire Induced Progressive Collapse at the NIST Chicago conference, and being involved with the review of GSA's new design requirements to mitigate progressive collapse, that were issues in 2002. He also worked extensively with Daniel Libeskind on the WTC masterplan and his design for Freedom Tower. David has written papers on Seismic Design in Areas of Low to Moderate Seismicity, fire and structures, composite structures and the design of long-span roofs. In 2004-2005 David was working on four 500m towers with architects Cesar Pelli, KPF and Daniel Libeskind. |