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Arup
Company blog · arup.com/perspectivesdesign
Arup is the company blog at arup.com, writing about design. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arup's pages on its engineering projects, such as the Sagrada Familia, Centre Pompidou, Sydney Opera House and Bendigo pumped hydro. Commenters mostly cite them as project references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are a global consultancy of designers, engineers and consultants. With offices across the US, we help plan, design, delivery and maintain transportation networks, buildings, energy, and water infrastructure that help shape our cities and communities.
Most-linked posts?
- /projects/sagrada-familia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-09
What Hacker News says?
Yes - I work at Arup ( https://www.arup.com/ ), a large engineering design and consultancy firm. The founder (Ove Arup) and original 7 partners “sold” their shares to a trust in the 60s or 70s (for something like 1 GBP, so they were effectively donated). The main difference between Arup and Patagonia seems to be that the beneficiaries of the Arup trust are Arup employees, while the Patagonia trust has other aims. Ov…
Comment linking /-/media/arup/files/publications/k/ove-arups-key-speech-2020.pdf
on “Patagonia founder gives away the company”Submitted Ove Arup's Key Speech as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe company I work for has actually been doing the engineering design work to finish the building. Pretty amazing how much was accomplished back in the day without computer aid. https://www.arup.com/projects/sagrada-familia
Comment linking /projects/sagrada-familia
on “Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years”Submitted Data can prevent pandemic-related homelessness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt seems a bit like you are just making stuff up without evidence to back this up. Many of the supposed issues have been solved ages ago. > The issue with wood based homes is that they are really good for SMALL individual homes. NOT for tall buildings despite theoretically xlam and co allow to build them... > It's not only a matter of water-leaks but also of noise, low thermal mass with the need of more effective ve…
Comment linking /projects/haut
on “Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions”Submitted First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnfortunately there are no realists in a position to really affect Government investment. Why is every nation not committing an investment on the scale of the Apollo/Manhattan Projects? Politically it should be sell-able as a near-term investment (jobs) and future prosperity (cheaper renewable energy). Governments should be putting billions into fusion, wave/tidal generation (nothing should be too expensive), upgrad…
Comment linking /projects/bendigo-underground-pumped-hydro
on “Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist”Submitted The Time-Value of Carbon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDesigned by Danish firm COWI: https://www.cowi.com/about/news-and-press/the-worlds-longest... https://www.cowi.com/about/our-story Cables by South Korean company PEC: http://pec.kr/en/ Engineering reviews by British professional services company Arup: https://www.arup.com/expertise/services/infrastructure/bridg... Structural engineering by Aas-Jakobsen: https://www.aas-jakobsen.com/about-us/the-aas-jakobsen-group...…
Comment linking /expertise/services/infrastructure/bridge-engineering
on “There's a new longest suspension bridge”Submitted Triple feature for Arup in engineering excellence series as a story · 1 points
HN discussion(I've had to create another account to reply as I'm doing my best to leave HN permanently. Part of this involves forgetting passwords as quickly as possible.) You admit that you have "no idea" what I'm talking about when I complain that this is an artist's fantasy that can only be realized by recourse to massive engineering resources. So it would have been nice if, instead of dismissing what I was saying, you acknow…
Comment linking /-/media/arup/files/publications/t/arup-journal_issue-1_2018.pdf
on “The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End”Submitted Traces of Peter Rice: Pushing the Boundaries of Engineering and Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's so disconcerting to watch organizations and architects like Arup and Bjarke Ingels support stuff like this. From an artistic perspective it's less interesting than Jeff Koons' proposed animated replica steam locomotive dangling vertically from a crane ( https://www.thedailybeast.com/whatever-happened-to-jeff-koon... ) and from an engineering perspective it's silly. Koons' loco could have held itself together wi…
Comment linking /perspectives/publications/speeches-and-lectures/section/ove-arup-key-speech
on “The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End”Submitted 2050 Scenarios: four plausible futures [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEven better if they are right where the customers are. This would be awesome if they can make it work: https://www.arup.com/projects/bendigo-underground-pumped-hyd...
Comment linking /projects/bendigo-underground-pumped-hydro
on “First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness”Impressive that the article manages to be that long without once mentioning the name of the engineer who ran the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rice#Sydney_Opera_House https://www.arup.com/perspectives/traces-of-peter-rice There's a chapter about the Sydney Opera House in his autobiography.
Comment linking /perspectives/traces-of-peter-rice
on “The Spherical Solution”To all of the armchair experts on HN who want to criticize this project and its maintenance costs: you better make sure you understand the (very French) politics that made this an utter pain for everyone involved, along with the constraints of the time at which this was designed and built. The engineering work done by Arup to make this project work was utterly amazing. I suggest this as a small bit of weekend readin…
Comment linking /perspectives/would-the-pompidou-get-built-today
on “Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025”They've been doing that in the construction of the Sagrada Familia for a long time now. This link is unfortunately not very informative: https://www.arup.com/projects/sagrada-familia
Comment linking /projects/sagrada-familia
on “CNC Gothic Stone Carving by the Carmelite Monks”
