Paul Edwards

About

Paul Edwards is a structural engineer able to bring holistic perspectives into the detail of design. His wide breadth of experience combined with familiarity of practice in different geographies gives him rare insight into how to deliver real value when grappling with the challenges of building design in the 21st century.

He has extensive experience with adaptive re-use at all scales. From his beginnings in the industry in 1997, where he developed a specialism of working with and adapting the structures of the UK’s industrial heritage, to his work in Italy that engaged widely with seismic assessments and retrofits of existing buildings to his recent work delivering unique adaptive re-use projects for the V&A Museum in London and award winning conversions of “lean and mean” post-WWII office buildings, he has always engaged with the opportunities specialized knowledge can provide to achieving circularity in construction.

He combines this experience with an impressive portfolio of leading building design around the world with a series of renowned collaborators, including RPBW, RSHP, KPF, David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and others. The insight gained from leading multidisciplinary design teams in demanding international contexts had equipped him with an encompassing sensitivity as to the ingredients for achieve sustainable and efficient designs.

Paul currently leads the work of BG&E in the UK and Europe after having spent 25 years with Arup. Throughout his career, he has built a reputation for working collaboratively and productively with clients, fellow designers and contractors, providing focus on solutions that ensure all can deliver their true value.