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

Bob Barton is the founder and managing director of Barton Engineers. He is responsible for co-ordinating structural design within the practice.

Previously he was an Associate at Anthony Hunt Associates and Whitby and Bird, 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 landmark building projects. 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 is involved in architectural teaching, being a visiting lecturer this year at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He has also tought extensively at other shcools, including The Architectural Association and the Bartlett School in London, Liverpool University, Portsmouth University, Oxford Brookes University, and Leicester de Montfort University.

Career Details before establishing Barton Engineers in 1993;

Graduated in Civil Engineering with Architecture at Leeds University, England 1982

Associate with Anthony Hunt Associates - London

Projects include Research Laboratories for Schlumberger Cambridge Research in Cambridge with Michael Hopkins Architects. The Museum of the Moving Image in London, the Hatfield Galleria Shopping Centre in Hertfordshire, and a major structural survey of the North Court to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Senior Project Engineer with Ove Arup and Partners

Projects include Stansted Airport Terminal Building with Sir Norman Foster and Partners; Minster Court, a 15 storey £175 million office complex in the City of London with GMW Architects.

Associate with Whitby and Bird

Projects include Research Laboratories at Cambridge University; Business Park at Oxford, England; Office building for Airship Industries, Bedford; Numerous commercial and residential buildings in London.

Founding Partner of Barton Wells Engineers, 1990 to 1993