Buro Happold supports RedR Day

02 April, 2008

Fun days at Buro Happold offices in Bath, London and Birmingham raised £1383 for the engineering charity RedR

Buro Happold raised £1383 for the charity RedR (Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief) with a company-wide ‘wear red for RedR Day’ in February. This was the second time the price has run a RedR Day since the scheme started three years ago. Throughout the day, the Bath head office held games and contests, including a hole-in-one putting competition, a table-football tournament, a sweepstake to guess the Oscar winners, a raffle and a cake stall — and raised £644. The London offices, working with consultants EDAW, raised £700. The smaller Birmingham office also contributed. RedR was inspired by one man’s personal experiences of working in a refugee camp and has grown from a small register of volunteers to an international organisation that has deployed over 2500 experts to worldwide relief efforts and runs an international programme of training courses. In 1979, Peter Guthrie was working as an engineer with Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick when a huge exodus of Vietnamese boat people caused a refugee crisis in Malaysia. He was the only engineer in the camp for the three months he was there. ‘I saw the pressing need for engineers to help in this sort of work and completed a register of engineers who could be called upon to work with frontline relief agencies.’

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