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HARRY GILES

 
Harry Giles is a designer, engineer and educator, specializing in buildings, materials, and structures, within a framework of sustainable design. He has over 29 years of combined experience as a principal on many international, competition and award winning commissions in Ove Arup and Buro Happold Engineers, working with reputable architects such as Norman Foster, Wilkinson Eyre and Frederick Fisher. His approach is interdisciplinary, integrating holistic design approaches, building on his multi-disciplinary experience in Arup Associates. He works as an independent consultant, collaborating with a number of creative designers in the USA, Canada and UK, working on the threshold of architectural design innovation. He has lectured and is a visiting critic at a number of universities in the USA. Harry extends his practice through research and is engaged in design related research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency in the USA. He is Professor of Practice of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan and operates an independent consultancy HGDesign, in building design + technology.
  
Professor of Practice of Architecture
Building Design and Technology
Structural Engineering
Specialist Fields
 

• • • • • • • • Reinforced and Pre-Stressed Concrete Structures •
• • • • • • • • • • Multi Physics Building Simulation Analysis •
• • • • • • • • • Advanced Structural Engineering Analysis •
• • • • • • • • Housing and Industrialized Manufacture •
• • • • • • • Integrated CAD Modeling and Analysis •
• • • • • • • • • Sustainable Design for Buildings •
• • • • • • • Low Energy Design for Buildings •
• • • • • • • Light Weight Fabric Structures •
• • • • • • Polymer Materials Structures •
• • • • Seismic Analysis and Design •
• • • • Structural Stainless Steel •
• • • • Load-bearing Brickwork •
• • • • Structural Steelwork •
• • Timber Construction •
• • • Glass Structures •

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Practice
updated
August 14, 2006
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