Buro Happold is an engineering consultancy firm that specializes in smart city ICT infrastructure. They take a holistic approach to planning and implementing smart districts and cities. Their services include masterplanning communications networks, designing wired and wireless infrastructure, conducting feasibility studies, and integrating sensor networks with city operating systems. Buro Happold aims to deploy sustainable and resilient ICT solutions that support utilities monitoring and enable smart grid capabilities.

1. Buro Happold
BURO HAPPOLD’s
SMART CITY ICT INFRASTRUCTURE 1

2. ABOUT
BURO HAPPOLD
From our very first project we have used our intricate knowledge of the industry to push the
boundaries and achieve more. It is this commitment that sets us apart, that adds value, that
makes us award winning. We apply the same level of complex thought and specialist expertise
to every project we work on.
Our people define what we do. We invest in them We are at the forefront of low energy design: we
in the same way that they invest in us; by providing deliver projects that have less carbon emissions and
opportunities to learn, to research, to develop. Our way are more sustainable, we deliver projects that do
of design is to draw on every talent, to consider every not cost the earth. Our expert teams of engineers
approach, to strive to progress; but to always use our and consultants know how to get the best out of
proven methodologies to get results. the world’s precious land and resources to provide
for a growing population. We are leading the way in
After 35 years in the industry we have never lost our shaping a new future.
desire to be challenged, our passion for creativity and
our sense of adventure. We know that building a place
with a future involves creating strong communities
that enable economies to thrive, engaging with
society’s big issues and enriching people’s lives.
Fuhai New City Xinjiang, China The Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Emirates Stadium London, UK
Masterplanner: Barton Willmore National Gallery Washington, D.C., USA Architect: Populous
Image: Barton Willmore Architect: Foster + Partners Image: Simon Warren
Image: Foster + Partners
SMART City ICT Infrastructure
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3. Buro Happold
A 75 acre development in the Imbi
area fronting Jalan Tun Razak bringing
together leading financial institutions
and top global companies to create a
catalytic pool of world-class players.
Kuala Lumpur Financial District, Malaysia
Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates
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4. OUR
EXPERIENCE
The ENVIRONMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE division at Buro Happold is a multi disciplinary team
with a proven record of operating within international markets.
We provide comprehensive, general and specialist Our infrastructural solutions ‘de risk’ the utility bundle
infrastructural engineering services in relation to and are environmentally friendly with efficient use of
complete developments, individual buildings and their materials delivering value driven ICT, Energy and Water
utilities infrastructure. strategies.
The team produce high quality engineering design
utilising in house methodologies to deliver cost and
program certainty.
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Berlin, Germany Riyadh, KSA Moscow, Russia Manchester, UK Mumbai, India
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5. Buro Happold
OUR
SERVICES
Buro Happold delivers world-class engineering consultancy across a range of disciplines spanning
buildings, infrastructure, environment, and project management. We combine creativity with solid
technical skills and an awareness of the key drivers that shape projects in the commercial sector.
BUILDINGS Drainage and storm water management
Earthworks
BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS
Flood risk
Acoustics
Geoenvironmental
Building services engineering (MEP)
Geotechnical
Happold Physics
Highway engineering
Lighting design
People movement
Sustainability
Transport planning
BUILDING PLANNING AND OPERATIONS Utilities engineering
Asset management
STRATEGIC CONSULTING
Fire engineering
Environment
Inclusive design
Transport
IT communications and control
Urban development
People movement
Waste
Safe & Secure
CONSULTING
BUILDING FABRIC
Facades HAPPOLD CONSULTING
SMART solutions Strategic planning, infrastructure and environment
Structural engineering Urban economics
Integrated development planning
ENVIRONMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE Project and service delivery
SPECIALIST CONSULTING Asset strategy
Bridges and civil structures Organisational development
Coastal and marine
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6. ICT INFRASTRUCTURE
SMART CITY
Phrases such as ‘SMART’ city and ‘intelligent At Buro Happold we take a pragmatic and practical
infrastructure’ are invariably misrepresented and approach to planning and implementing SMART
misused by Buro Happold’s peers and competitors. districts and cities for our UK & international portfolio of
municipal and private sector clients.
The surge in urbanisation and city development around
the globe has dramatically increased the importance of Many of our peers develop master plans based entirely
planning and deploying low maintenance, scalable and on the conceptual aspects of planning SMART cities,
resilient infrastructural ‘arteries’ and service corridors focussing solely on functional technologies and failing
within the urban environment. to acknowledge the impact of systems architecture on
the physical infrastructure.
It’s now widely recognised that alongside the three
primary utility infrastructures (electricity, gas and water) During the ‘conceptual’ design phase of a new
deploying an appropriately specified information appointment Buro Happold integrate this ‘top down’
communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is critical functional approach within standard Masterplans;
to the successful development of new & existing towns however our holistic view of ‘SMART’ city technology
and cities. goes much further.
Whilst this fourth utility provides the physical Utilising a combination of in-house and retained
infrastructure that enables national and international expertise we deliver a comprehensive service, covering
voice, data and video interconnectivity, it is increasingly all aspects of urban technology design, including ICT
recognised that deploying communications infrastructural topology and the ‘systems architecture’
infrastructure to monitor traditional utilities within the required to implement a truly ‘SMART’ city.
confines of the city is equally critical.
This approach enables our consultants to focus on the
Implementing wired and wireless communications capability and market value of ‘SMART’ technologies,
technology, buried alongside utility networks or both present day and those subject to future
deployed above ground monitoring the public realm deployment.
provides an urban ‘nervous system’ and an interface
between the city’s primary plant and the protocols and
city wide operating platforms used to maintain granular
control of all aspects of the city’s day to day running,
resources and services.
SMART City ICT Infrastructure
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and Renewable Energy Manchester, UK Vietnam
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7. Buro Happold
CORE COMPETENCIES
MASTERPLANNING
• Strategic development of campus and city scale
metropolitan network infrastructure
• Review of construction phasing, load assessment
and spatial implications
• Programme development including high level
procurement options
• Evaluation of onsite and incoming communications
including fixed network and options for fixed and
mobile wireless
• Feasibility reports & technology options including
implementation of ‘open’ infrastructure.
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8. CORE COMPETENCIES
NETWORK DESIGN • Design of all aspects of ‘Access’ infrastructure including
next generation copper and fibre optic networks such
• Design of SMART city and utility solutions, advising as FTTH/ FTTx
on the integration of sensor/ actuator networks with
city operating systems • Design of resilient above and below ground primary
and secondary telecoms pathways, routes, assets &
• Design of wireless infrastructure within the Urban outside plant
environment including mesh sensor networks
• Management of ITT and tender process including
• Concept to detail design of campus and direct purchase & fixed price options where applicable.
metropolitan area networks
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Point of Presence
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9. Buro Happold
CORE COMPETENCIES
NETWORK SURVEYS PAST PERFORMANCE
• Desktop studies and route proving in conjunction With experience of designing varying degrees of
with major network providers and incumbent public SMART city infrastructure in the UK, Middle East and
telephone operators Far East the team at Buro Happold has consulted on a
comprehensive portfolio of schemes, including:
• Due diligence and physical investigation and
inspection of existing and proposed infrastructure • Privately owned city campus, Manchester, UK
• Optical infrastructure studies – a tiered process • Privately owned island, Bahamas
reviewing all aspects of the proximity of
proposed sites to fibre optic telecommunications • egro, Slough Trading Estate, UK
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infrastructure. • Beitun, China
• KACARE, KSA
• Financial District, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Multi-vendor communal
chambers set in public realm
Duct & sub-duct entering
the building envelope
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10. DIFFERENTIATORS
SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Buro Happold’s sustainable infrastructure design process supports the increasingly complex portfolio of converged ICT
systems required to manage a modern district or city development.
Utilising high bandwidth solutions and open protocols (where appropriate) within these networks can enable a cities
critical voice, data and video systems to be converged onto fewer cables, requiring smaller utility corridors and less
invasive civil engineering.
For example ‘micro’ duct can be specified for telecommunications backbone cabling and buried utilising a trenchless
slot cut technology enabling individual optical fibres to be ‘blown’ into the duct system as and when required.
SMART GRID
Buro Happold already consults on many of the
fundamental aspects of the electrical Smart Grid
e.g. Smart meters, monitoring systems and power
management. However with the addition of an Consumer Portal
appropriately specified ICT infrastructure, implementing
a resilient and profitable Smart Grid can become a Utility DMS Portal
Utility Back Office
reality. Utility Network Operations/
Management Centre
Smart Grid type networks offer the improved routing of Advanced Meter
Infrastructure Network
Energy Management Facility/
Bureau
power supplies based on real-time condition monitoring Home Broadband
Wi-Fi Router
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avoiding overloads, self restoration after black-outs, finer
control of generation and more efficient demand-supply
matching.
Zigbee Enabled Load Control
Wireless Dashboard Module for Water Heater HVAC
Res/Commercial/Industrial End User
Smart Grid Consumer Interfaces
To enable this, smart grids require topologies that
support advanced switching capabilities in substations
and line monitoring, providing increased automation of
Utility Network Operations/ Energy Management Facility/
the network. Management Centre Data, Telemetry Bureau
This enhanced topology and control of power flow in Physical Connectivity
turn enables power to be injected into the grid at any
SMART City ICT Infrastructure
point (subject to overvoltage limits on distribution),
Data, Telemetry Logical Connectivity Data, Telemetry
enabling better integration of smaller decentralised & Electrical Power
generators, including intermittent renewables.
Policy
These generators can be grouped as “virtual power
plants” such that their output can be called upon in a
Res/Commercial/
fashion akin to more conventional dispatchable loads. Industrial End User
Smart Grid Key Concepts
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11. DIFFERENTIATORS
UBIQUITOUS WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE
Buro Happold consults on the large scale deployment and operation of wireless infrastructure outside the building
envelope and within the public realm.
Implementation of the complex hierarchy of wireless infrastructures required to support the SMART city aspirations of
most clients far exceed the issues faced during the provision of wireless ‘hotspots’ co located alongside public libraries
and coffee shops.
The cost to construct these large scale municipal wireless infrastructures is a significant percentage of their lifetime cost,
typically finance is raised through joint venture arrangements.
The technical operation of metropolitan wireless infrastructure is based upon utilising radio communication for both the
local wireless service and the back haul pathway to the Internet.
Most wireless access points will only need to be physically cabled to a power supply but a percentage, referred to as
aggregation nodes, will require a hard wired connection to the internet.
This approach means that access points must be located within range of each other to form a contiguous pathway back
to the aggregation node.
Internet
Aggregation Wireless Access Point
IP CCTV
Wireless Access Point Wireless Access Point
Simplistic Metropolitan Wireless Area Network
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12. DIFFERENTIATORS
CITY OPERATING SYSTEMS
The term ‘City Operating System’ has become common place when describing a set of control, sensing, and supervisory
capabilities in a SMART city environment. Generally undefined the term is used somewhat inconsistently however Buro
Happold defines it as encompassing the following capabilities:
• Real time control capability from micro- to macro- level
• An integrated platform for multiple types of sensor and control
• Supervisory and analytical capabilities for large quantities of historical data
• A platform designed to provide data and control to applications developed by third parties utilising API’s.
An example of a common place platform includes systems such as Windows OS and API’s (application programming
interfaces) are used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.
A city operating system can be thought of as being the equivalent in an urban space of a Manufacturing Execution
System utilized in an industrial environment.
It combines Building Management Systems (BMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and a cloud
computing environment for application hosting, into a single construct.
Kuala Lumpur Financial District, Malaysia
Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates
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13. Buro Happold
DIFFERENTIATORS
FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY Active equipment, e.g. server and
storage located within the TR or in
Security and surveillance consoles
located in a dedicated room,
a space such as a dedicated typically site wide control room.
As leaders in ICT and infrastructure innovation the team equipment room or data centre.
at Buro Happold are conversant with the deployment of
fixed line and wireless technologies in both campus and
city wide networks.
Utilising this experience our consultants are able
challenge standard ICT paradigms ensuring for example:
• Open & or closed networks are deployed as required
• Network nodes such as IP CCTV cameras are Telecoms room (TR) dedicated to the
individual building - housing active
deployed with embedded intelligence and localised equipment & interconnecting the
storage building LAN to the site wide
infrastructure.
• Where feasible design solutions incorporate Router
commercial and legislative opportunities for
developers and municipalities Site wide infrastructure, likely to be a
metropolitan area network (MAN)
IP/MAN with active equipment housed in the
Further practical examples of scenarios in which 5 main communications rooms
(MCRs) located in the service areas.
Buro Happold can help management teams achieve
their sustainable, financial and technological Active equipment including local
aspirations through the deployment of intelligent server in order to manage archiving -
if this equipment is to be located
infrastructure include: Router street side is should be ruggedised.
• Ubiquitous wireless zones enabling estates IP security cameras located in the
management and municipal staff to connect to public realm and cabled back to a
local municipal building or street side
any system within the metropolitan environment, security cabinet.
receiving and transmitting work instruction without
wasting time and resources returning to their HQ Public Realm Surveillance
• Wireless asset management can be used to track the
location and status of plant ensuring maintenance
schedules are adhered to and pointless excavations
avoided. Tags attached to underground plant can be
used as read/write records accessed wirelessly from
above ground and linked to GPS and GIS systems
• Telemetry from AMR’s and smart metering systems
can be collated and transmitted across local area
networks or the internet to remote central locations
where data can be interrogated and automated
responses initiated including two way control of end
user equipment or even the redirection of power
generated on local energy grids.
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14. BURO HAPPOLD
Buildings Environment and Infrastructure Consulting
By our very nature we are an evolving organisation. We have a strong desire to continually
explore and enquire. We are in the growth business in terms of knowledge and challenge,
the desire to learn, to seize opportunities and to create smart solutions for our clients.
Our independence sets us apart by allowing us to put our clients at the very heart of all we do.
Bringing our expertise to the broadest range of leading technologies and thinking means the
impact of our work can be huge.
Working around the world, building on the many projects and activities since our formation
over 35 years ago, gives us a clear purpose and a set of beliefs that enable our teams to get
the very best out of the world’s precious resources.
We operate at every scale from the smallest shelter through communities and cities to the
needs of organisations and governments. Our mission is simple: to enable our clients to
achieve a sustainable future, enhancing their businesses, enriching people’s lives and playing
our part in developing a healthy and sustainable society for today and tomorrow.
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BERLIN
WARSAW
MOSCOW
EDINBURGH
GLASGOW
LEEDS
MANCHESTER
BIRMINGHAM
BELFAST
BATH
LONDON
MUNICH
MILAN
SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
CHICAGO
BOSTON
NEW YORK BEIJING
HONG KONG
MUMBAI
DUBAI
ABU DHABI
CAIRO
KUWAIT
JEDDAH
RIYADH
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15. Contacts
UK Middle East For more information on how the Energy &
17 Newman Street Office 515, 5th Floor Utilities infrastructure team can support your
London W1T 1PD Al Akariyah 2, Olaya Street organisation, please contact:
UK PO Box 34183
T: +44 (0)20 7927 9700 Riyadh 11468
Saudi Arabia
North America East T: +966 (0) 1 419 1992
100 Broadway,
New York, NY 10005 North America West
USA Suite B,
T: +1 212 334 2025 9601 Jefferson Boulevard,
Culver City, CA 90232
Paul Goff
Central Europe USA
Pfalzburger Straße 43-44 T: +1 310 945 4800 Associate ICT, Energy & Utility Infrastructure
10717 Berlin T 07908 206005
Germany North Europe and Scandinavia E paul.goff@burohappold.com
T: +49 (0) 30 860 906-0 Four Winds, Pacific Quay
Glasgow G51 1DY
Asia Pacific UK
3507-09 Hopewell Centre T: +44 (0)141 419 3000
183 Queen’s Road East
Wanchai India
Hong Kong Office No 201
T: +852 3658 9608 Delta
Hiranandani Gardens
William Downie
Powai
Mumbai – 400 076 Group Director, Energy & Utility
India T 07525 766 489
T: +91 22 33 41 41 33 E william.downie@burohappold.com
Global Sector Directors
Aviation
Neil Squibbs
Rail
Justin Phillips
enquiries@burohappold.com
E: neil.squibbs@burohappold.com E: justin.phillips@burohappold.com www.burohappold.com
Culture and Civic Sport, Leisure and Event
Stephen Jolly Paul Westbury
E: stephen.jolly@burohappold.com E: paul.westbury@burohappold.com
Hospitality Commercial Property
Paul Rogers Neil Billett
E: paul.rogers@burohappold.com E: neil.billett@burohappold.com
Scientific Healthcare
Andy Parker Andy Parker
E: andy.parker@burohappold.com E: andy.parker@burohappold.com
Education Urban Development and Planning
Mike Entwisle Andrew Comer
E: mike.entwisle@burohappold.com E: andrew.comer@burohappold.com

16. The engineering of excellence
Buro Happold
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Birmingham, Boston, Cairo, Chicago,
Copenhagen, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kuwait, Leeds, London,
Los Angeles, Manchester, Milan, Moscow,
Mumbai, Munich, New York, Riyadh, San
Francisco, Warsaw.
Abu Dhabi
Bath
Belfast
Berlin
Birmingham
Boston
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London
Edinburgh
UK
Lower Bristol Road Glasgow
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7927 9700
Bath BA2 3DQ Hong Kong
UK Email: enquiries@burohappold.com Jeddah
Kuwait
Telephone: +44 (0)1225 320 600 Leeds
Email: addressee@burohappold.com London
Los Angeles
Manchester
Moscow
Munich
Structural Engineering Building Services / MEP Engineering New York
Ground Engineering Infrastructure Engineering Specialist Consulting Pune
Buildings Environment and Infrastructure Consulting Riyadh
Toronto
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