{"id":32087,"date":"2025-07-29T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32087\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:40:13","slug":"tributes-paid-to-arup-engineer-behind-8-bishopsgate-who-has-died-aged-49-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32087\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to Arup engineer behind 8 Bishopsgate who has died aged 49 | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arup engineer behind Wilkinson Eyre\u2019s 8 Bishopsgate tower in the City of London has died at the age of 49.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Edwards, global and UKIMEA property leader at Arup, was the project director behind the 51-storey scheme which completed in 2023.<\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

Widely respected across the industry, Edwards led the engineering design on some of London\u2019s most high profile projects across a near-three decade career including the redevelopment of the former BBC Television Centre and Arup\u2019s own London base at 80 Charlotte Street.<\/p>\n

Stuart Lipton, co-founder of developer Lipton Rogers, called Edwards was \u201cone of the great engineers of the 21st century\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rogers described Edwards as an \u201cengineering visionary who not only understood the value of engineering but the value of people and place and their relationship with buildings\u201d.<\/p>\n

Arup Group chief executive Jerome Frost said Rogers was the \u201cembodiment of Arup\u201d, adding his death had \u201ccome as a huge shock to so many of us\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremy was a colleague and friend. We worked together, pitched for projects together, and he was a great strength in recent years in offering me advice and support. All my thoughts are with Jeremy\u2019s family, friends and colleagues,\u201d Frost said.<\/p>\n

> Also read:\u00a0Technical Study: 8 Bishopsgate by Wilkinson Eyre<\/a><\/p>\n

Paula Walsh, Arup UKIMEA managing director, described Edwards as \u201can exceptional leader, a trusted advisor, and a friend\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the privilege of working closely with him over many years, and it is hard to put into words just how much he meant to me and to so many of us at Arup,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis impact on Arup has been profoundly woven into so many teams and projects and he inspired those around him, leading with both vision, heart and integrity, leaving an enduring legacy. He will be sorely missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwards was born in Chatham, Kent in 1975 and studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Leeds before joining Arup after graduating in 1998.<\/p>\n

Initially based in Manchester, he moved to London where he worked on Heathrow Terminal 5 and the air traffic control tower.<\/p>\n

He was an internationally competitive runner and co-founder of industry charity adventure race Dig Deeper, which has raised nearly \u00a3500,000 for charities Anthony Nolan and 353. His partners at Arup have pledged to continue this fundraising activity.<\/p>\n

He leaves behind his wife Carlyn and three children, Lauren, 20, Sophie, 18, and Rory, 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arup engineer behind Wilkinson Eyre\u2019s 8 Bishopsgate tower in the City of London has died at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-32087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}