Bill Baker to receive Institution’s Gold Medal Award
03/03/2010
William F. Baker, PE, CE, SE, FIStructE, FASCE is to receive the Institution’s highest accolade, the Gold Medal, for his work as an internationally acclaimed structural engineer.
The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual for ‘exceptional and outstanding contributions to the advancement of structural engineering’. The award was first presented in 1922 to Professor Henry Adams and previous winners of the Gold Medal include Ove Arup (1973), Edmund Happold (1991) and Michel Virlogeux (1996).
Bill Baker is Structural and Civil Engineering Partner, at Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) in London and Chicago. He joined the firm in 1981 and is well known for his work on super tall buildings, most recently designing the structural systems for the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
Other work of note includes the Virginia Beach Convention Center’s longspan structure, General Motors Renaissance Center’s glass cable net entrance pavilion in Detroit, Michigan, and the Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago.
No stranger to awards, he won the Fazlur Rahaman Khan Medal from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2008 and in 2009 was the first American to be awarded the Fritz Leonhardt Prize. Baker is on the Specification Committee of the American Institute of Steel Construction and a Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture.
He frequently lectures on a variety of structural engineering topics within the US and abroad and wrote a paper scoping the future for structural engineers in the Centenary issue of the Journal in July 2008.
Bill Baker will give his Gold Medal Address at the Institution of Structural Engineers/IABSE lecture on 13 May at the Institute of Directors, London. Booking details will be announced shortly.
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