Bob Barton
B.Sc(Hons) C.Eng F.I.Struct.E F.Cons.E

• Director
• Founder, 1993
• Managing Director and Head of Design
• Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers
• Enhanced Disclosure CRB checked

Bob Barton is the founder and managing director of Barton Engineers. He is responsible for co-ordinating structural design within the practice, and is also in charge of knowledge systems. Before setting up Barton Engineers he had been an Associate at both Anthony Hunt Associates and Whitby Bird Engineers, and also worked at Ove Arup and Partners as a senior design engineer. He has considerable experience designing building structures, particularly tall buildings in steel and concrete and complex long span roof systems in steel and aluminium, and has been responsible for a number of award winning building projects. As well as working with new buildings Bob has considerable experience of working with listed buildings and has been responsible for extensive structural surveys of the North and South Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and also providing day to day structural engineering advice to The Surveyor of Fabric at the Royal Academy in Piccadilly. He also has experience in designing lightweight structures using non-linear analysis techniques and also complex foundation systems.

Bob Barton’s interests are in architectural design, especially complex architectural schemes where an appropriate structural
solution is required to harmonise with the architectural form. He has written extensively for a number of architectural and engineering publications, and is involved in architectural teaching, being a visiting tutor for Professor Richard Weston’s Unit at the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Cardiff. He has also taught extensively at other schools, including The Architectural Association and the Bartlett School in London, Liverpool University, Portsmouth University, Oxford Brookes University, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, and Leicester de Montfort University. As well as being a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, Bob is also actively involved with the Institution, being an interviewer/assessor for the Chartered Membership Interview for both the North Thames and South Thames Regions.

Bob believes strongly that he and his staff should lead active cultural lives beyond the realms of the construction industry, and
that they should all try to make positive contributions to society in general. For his part he manages an U11 boys football team
for Sheen Lions FC.