Speakers

Jane is a structural engineer who likes to work on projects that give delight, and is engaged with our response to the climate and ecology emergency. She has worked in both Europe and the USA, and on projects around the world. She worked for Ove Arup and Partners from 1976-1979 and 1982-1988, and for Birdair Structures Inc. from 1980-1981. She was Principal in Charge of Arups’ Los Angeles office from 1986-88 and was an Associate Director of Arup from 1989 where her most notable project was the Millennium Wheel. She founded Jane Wernick Associates Ltd. in 1998. Projects include the Young Vic Theatre; the treetop walkway at Kew Gardens; and the Living Architecture Houses. In 2015 JWA was incorporated into engineersHRW, where she is now a consultant.

She won the 2013 First Woman of the Built Environment Award. She has taught at many academic institutions, and served on committees and design review panels, including CABE, Building Schools for the Future, and DSE, as well as awards panels for the RIBA, BCIA, IStructE, the AJ, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is an active member of the multi-disciplinary built environment think tank, the Edge (www.edgedebate.com). She edited the RIBA Building Futures book, ‘Building Happiness – Architecture to Make You Smile’.