Engineering The Dome

EDM number 64 in 1999-00, proposed by Claire Curtis-Thomas on 19/11/1999.

That this House congratulates the Bath-based engineering consultancy Buro Happold on winning the 1999 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award - the United Kingdom's most prestigious engineering prize - for its pioneering engineering design of the Millennium Dome; notes that the Dome is an extremely cost-effective solution to covering the Greenwich site and costs less per square metre than a retail warehouse; notes that Dome technology could be used in the future to protect people living in extreme climate zones; and applauds the achievements of the winning engineers Ian Liddel, Paul Westbury, Darwood Pandor and Gary Dagger for developing a revolutionary structure that represents the future of large-span, value-for-money buildings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.