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It’s never just a structure. It’s a record-breaking sky bridge connecting people 100 metres up in the air. A way to capture 200,000 gallons of precious rainwater every year. A spiral of inviting gardens 1,000 feet high, so everyone can enjoy the great outdoors. A reimagined town centre pioneering the use of reclaimed steel on a large scale. A state-of-the-art biologics lab precision-made from timber – bringing science and sustainability together.

Designing and delivering low carbon and net zero aligned places sits at the heart of what we do at WSP.  Among other reductions in our building projects, we’re aiming to cut embodied carbon intensity across our building structures designs by 40% by 2027 from a 2020 baseline – having already reduced it by 29% between 2020-2025. We’ve also joined the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for next generation low carbon concrete, ConcreteZero and SteelZero, underscoring our focus on accelerating industry progress and driving highly sustainable outcomes for our clients.

Sometimes the impact of our work stands in plain view – inseparable from the visionary architecture it makes possible. For others, it’s hidden deep within the fabric of a structure – making it safer and more resilient. What drives us is the limitless potential to make a positive impact through thoughtful, high-performing structural engineering solutions.

We’re challenging the status quo and designing innovative, more sustainable ways to build new structures and reinvent existing buildings. Creating great places for people to live, for businesses to prosper and for industries to excel.

Designing and delivering resilient, high-performing buildings

We work across multiple sectors, including but not limited to life sciences, data centres, stadia, defence, healthcare, energy, commercial, residential and more – using the learnings from each project to advance outcomes on others.

Our expertise in structural engineering services

Bringing clarity to complexity

See it in action: 40 Leadenhall

Bringing clarity to complexity

We combine creative thinking with deep technical expertise to unlock the most challenging projects, from tall buildings to major infrastructure. We help you move confidently from planning through to delivery by shaping solutions around the realities of each site, including proximity to transport networks, protected sightlines, planning requirements and building regulations.

Create more with less

Our structural engineering consultants design structures and use materials thoughtfully, helping to reduce cost, waste and embodied carbon without compromising our clients’ vision or building performance. By advancing how buildings are designed and made, we’re optimising material efficiency on many of our projects through critical thinking, digital transformation and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).

Create more with less

See it in action: Elephant & Castle Town Centre

Get Future Ready

See it in action: Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

Get Future Ready®

We look to the future to build flexibility, resilience and lasting value into our structural designs – anticipating how they might need to adapt in a rapidly changing world. We’re leaders in refurbishing, retrofitting and adapting the buildings we already have, to create resilient and vibrant buildings that perform beautifully, inside and out.

Build impact

In close collaboration with our visionary clients, partners and multidisciplinary teams around the world, our structural engineers are on a journey to make the built environment a better place. Creating neighbourhoods centred around communities. Buildings enriched with data, design and digital ingenuity. Places where people can thrive and unleash their full potential.

Build impact

See it in action: Earls Court

Discover our innovations

CLT-Steel Composite Floor System

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Kit-of-parts approach

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Daisy tool

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Future Homes Carbon Assessment tool

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Steel Reuse tool

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Experts

Claire Gott
Claire Gott
Head of Structures, UK and Ireland
United Kingdom
Dan Hagan
Dan Hagan
Regional Director, London and South England
United Kingdom
Malcolm Davidson red updated
Malcolm Davidson
Regional Director, Midlands
United Kingdom
Chris Pembridge
Chris Pembridge
Regional Director, Wales and South West England
United Kingdom
Stephen Clare
Stephen Clare
Regional Director, North England
United Kingdom
John Cox
John Cox
Head of North, Structures
United Kingdom
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All calculations for embodied carbon intensity across our building structures designs have utilised WSP’s in-house carbon calculator. Since the 2024 review, the calculator has been updated to reflect the second edition of the RICS Professional Standard.

Certain information contained in this article is forward-looking, including, without limitation, WSP’s long-term sustainability ambitions and targets which are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as further detailed in the ‘Risk Factors’ section of WSP’s most recent annual management’s discussion and analysis, which is available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and which section is incorporated herein by reference and are based on several assumptions as further described in the ‘Forward-Looking Statements’ section of WSP’s latest Global Sustainability Report, which give rise to the possibility that actual results or events could differ materially from the expectations expressed in, or implied by, such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this article are made as of September 2025 and WSP does not assume any obligation to publicly update or to revise any forward-looking statements made in this article or otherwise, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise except as required under applicable securities laws.