Povl Ahm

Ahm CBE FICE FREng povl (born 26 September 1926 in Aarhus, † 15 May 2005) was an eminent structural engineer and former chairman of Ove Arup & Partners.

Life

Ahm studied at the Polyteknisk Læreanstalt in Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1949.

In 1952 he started at Ove Arup and Partners in London, where he worked at the Coventry Cathedral by Basil Spence and Ove Arup.

Ahm was also involved in early drafts of the Sydney Opera House and also worked in other prestigious projects such as the listed poultry market hall in Smithfield ( London) or the Centre Pompidou. 1957 Ahm partakers of the Arup Group Limited 1965 Partner and 1977 one of the directors; 1989-1992 Chairman of the company. From 1992 to 1996 he was president of the Association of Consulting Engineers.

As the design of Arup in 1965 won the competition for the Gateshead Viaduct, Ahm began the new traffic area of ​​the firm specializing in bridges.

Ahm 1981 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. As the first Ahm received 1993 Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers; In the same year he was awarded the Order CBE.

The University of Warwick awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1994.

He died in 2005 from cancer.