Bill ADDIS
Roma Tor Vergata University Visiting Professor (September 2015 - January 2016)
Bill studied engineering at Cambridge and began working as a design
engineer with Rolls Royce Aeroengines. He later joined the Department of
Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading
concentrating on engineering materials and the design of building
structures. There he undertook research towards a PhD in the history and
philosophy of structural engineering design. He left Reading in 1999 to
join Buro Happold Consulting Engineers where he now focuses on
environmentally-responsible and sustainable design of buildings and
masterplans.
During his time as an academic, Bill concentrated on helping architects to
understand how they could most benefit from what engineers have to offer
in the design process. It is equally important for architects to ask the
right questions as well as for engineers to understand what architects
most need from engineers.
Bill has written many books and papers on diverse aspects of structural
engineering including design, philosophy, aesthetics, pedagogy, history
and sustainability.
For nearly four decades Bill has studied the history of building and civil
engineering and construction. He has written books and papers on many
aspects of the subject.
He is also chair of the Editorial Advisory Panel for the Engineering
History and Heritage volume of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil
Engineers.
