Interview: Arup's Philip Dilley is bringing bold ideas from the sketchpad to reality - quiet electric toothbrush

If you listen carefully enough, you may be able to hear two high-speed trains whizzing through Fitzrovia.
This is not to say that it will be running for another 14 years, but that the engineer Arup is already used to thinking ahead of time.
Its office has an acoustic lab that can demonstrate what noise the train will make on the proposed new fast rail between London and Birmingham.
"It needs a train that doesn't exist yet, and if you set up obstacles, inserts, or dikes, you can solve the acoustic problem," said Arup chairman Philip deli . ".
It may never be quiet enough for activists living in the Great Missenden near childen Hill, but it is not the point.
Arup again demonstrates its ability to solve problems
Or to be more precise, to help architects move from bold ideas on the drawing board to reality. But can the 66-year-old, staff-
After a boom in layoffs and integration, state-owned enterprises continued to flourish, creating bigger competitors?
Delie thinks so, but it might help if Arup is able to work on a low profile basis.
After we talked for ten minutes, he took out a newspaper cut.
Standard writing for one night
Up mentioned many successful Arup projects without names
Checked the company once.
"I should call her, shouldn't I?
"He said to the author with ridicule.
People familiar with the matter are very clear about what the company did.
Once a structural engineer, Arup will now be involved in any design work related to the environment, planning and project management.
In London, recent tasks include the construction of cross-rail tunnels and stations at Tottenham Court Road and Canary Wharf, as well as the lookout tower of the Olympic Park-the ancelormittal track, the new urban landmark of the herons tower.
That makes the company sound busy, but in fact, its UK revenue fell 9% last year due to a slowdown in the commercial property market.
The group's operating profit is 24.
Down 6 million from £ 91.
A year ago, Arup benefited £ 3 million from a £ 81 million pension credit.
"It's not all pessimistic, but we 've backed down a little bit here," admits deli, 57 . ".
"Big developers are now building the belief that in three or four years, when their projects are completed, they will have a market.
They are right, positive and negative for a year or so.
"At the same time, the real action is in Australia, the United States, especially China. In China, Arup has 700 employees in seven offices and 1500 in Hong Kong.
Mr Dilley frankly admitted that David Cameron's trade mission to Russia and China helped the bosses of his British counterparts see Aruba's overseas advantages and help win overseas
Dicey is used to acting as a mediator.
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Is to find a medium of happiness.
"The best way to avoid heat loss is to build a sealed building with no windows," he said . ".
"The best way to avoid the lights is to have a lot of windows so it's a balance.
"Arup is still ahead of the legacy of the Danish architect Sir Ove Arup who created it.
Today's leader talked about his important speech in 1970, when he trusted the employees of the partnership to make it John Lewis of the engineering world.
"He doesn't use the word sustainability because it doesn't really exist, but if you read it, it's incredibly written in 1970," deli said excitedly.
The 10,000 employees of Arup also scored 21.
Five million pots last year.
However, it can distribute cash, but it is not easy to raise.
Arup's ability to do transactions is very limited.
This becomes a problem as consolidation takes over the industry.
Rival consulting firm Halcrow sold to American peer CH2M Hill for £ 143 last fall, saying goodbye to 0. 23 billion years of independence.
"If our profession follows accountants, I don't think we can be one of the four big companies because we don't have the financial resources," deli admits . ".
"In fact, I'm not sure if we want --
This is not a matter of size but of quality.
"Since December, he has been the chairman of London's first group, which aims to make the capital the Best Commercial City in the world.
"We may have a lot of people in China, but London has a very special place in the world.
For the rest of my career, I can't see that London is not the global center of Arup.
"In London's future airport plan, deli became the most annoyed with traffic problems --
Or missing them.
They were forced to go on the agenda of the mayoral election.
"I would argue that there is no real participant --
He said: "He advocated increasing national investment in railways. At present, the railway is the largest division of Arup.
"The other day I heard someone describe it in a way that I thought was pretty good.
Imagine if a highway is not built in the UK.
You have to sit in A4 when you go to Bristol.
"That's what you do on the railway --
We have never built a highway with a railway system.
36 years ago, deli graduated directly from Imperial College London and joined Arup.
"It's a place with a safety net that gives you a lot of freedom and a fabulous knowledge base.
He made it sound like a design utopia.
Whether you're working in Athens where you're not performing well or in booming Beijing, engineers can track pet programs and bonuses are balanced across the company.
But sometimes they feel guilty because they are not commercial enough.
For example, you would feel that deli would rather stick to a system and charge the electric cars by driving them up to the mat on the road instead of plugging them in --
Like an electric toothbrush.
Arup came up with the idea from a university in New Zealand and developed it and then sold it to chip maker Qualcomm in last November.
"There is a little feeling that it will be good to continue," he said . ".
"Normally we are very bad and we like the technology very much and we will stick to it until it fails.
At least Arup can admit its weakness.
And its advantages in railways and sustainable development.
What it needs to do is to send out more speakers to attract people's attention.
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