Property and Buildings

‘Tall excellence: seeking the ideal in vertical urbanism’ was the theme of the 2022 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Conference, which took place in Chicago from 9-12th November.

We’re delighted that 12 of our projects won Awards of Excellence and we have been ranked as the #1 engineering company in CTBUH’s latest publication: The World’s 118 Tallest Buildings. 

WSP is pleased to announce its intention to acquire two UK-based businesses, Capita (Real Estate & Infrastructure) Ltd. (“Capita REI”) and GL Hearn Ltd. (“GLH”), both owned by Capita PLC. 

WSP is pleased to announce that it has acquired BOD Arquitectura e Ingeniería, a 45-employee architecture and engineering firm based in Madrid, Spain. The addition of BOD will expand WSP’s Property & Buildings service offering, while boosting its visibility in Madrid and across Spain.

‘Recovery, renewal & rediscovery: Planning a climate-smart healthcare system’ is the headline of this year’s European Healthcare Design Congress & Exhibition from 13^th to 15^th June.  We’re thrilled about this years event which brings a plethora of exciting topics such as modern methods of construction, decarbonisation and digital transformation. 

We’re excited to attend in person for the first time in 2 years and have a great line up representing WSP, read on to find out more. 

The extraordinary technical challenges faced by WSP / Lievense during the renovation and expansion of Palais Het Loo, a 17^th century palace and one of the Netherlands’ most popular museums, included jacking up the listed palace buildings, a discontinuous ground water level, a basement constructed underwater and an immovable deadline.

At the junction of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers of Chongqing in southern China stands the recently topped out Raffles City, where you can visit the world’s highest skybridge – if you dare!

WSP helps save lives by enabling two field hospitals to be built in Panama, adding much needed facilities during the COVID pandemic.

The 6th European Healthcare Design (EHD) Congress is the world's leading forum for exchanging knowledge on research, policy and practice within the field of healthcare design. This year's five-day festival will be held entirely online and WSP is excited to be part of the proceedings. With the unexpected changes and challenges the pandemic has ushered in around the world in technology, society and resources, healthcare design is transitioning and the EHD 2020 is the forum for the future of healthcare

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, our global healthcare network and specialist teams have collaborated closely to support our clients in rapidly responding to the challenges of this unparalleled crisis. We are helping clients world-wide to upscale their healthcare facilities to increase their capacity for unprecedented numbers of patients requiring hospital treatment.

A Future-Ready design, created by WSP, for WSP. Our Brisbane colleagues celebrate their one-year anniversary at their new office.

Congratulations to our colleagues from WSP Sweden, whose project, the Kiruna City Hall, won a European Steel Design Award of Merit at the European Steel Design Awards held in Brussels on 14 October 2019.

ICONHIC2019 aims to bring together stakeholders from different disciplines—engineers, financers, insurers, and policy makers—to exchange experiences, ideas and perspectives on building future infrastructure resilience.