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Chris Wise

'Chris thinks like an artist and acts like an engineer,’ are the words used by leading architect Richard Rogers to describe the structural engineer Chris Wise.

Chris is an award winning engineer and a successful entrepreneur having co-founded his own structural design company Expedition Engineering in 1999.To date Chris’s career includes work on many leading structures that can be seen all over the world such as the Millennium Bridge in London, Europe’s tallest building the Commerzbank HQ in Frankfurt and the Telecom Tower in Barcelona. You may have seen Chris lead a team in the challenge to reconstruct then fly the world’s first airship as part of the BBC series Building the Impossible.

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