Brian Eckersley co-founded Eckersley O’Callaghan in 2004. They have since grown to become one of the foremost design-led structural and facade engineering consultancy firms with 160 staff between London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Delhi, Milan and Manchester. Their work ranges across all building sectors and scales, and they have won multiple industry awards. Clients include commercial developers and major contractors, academic and cultural institutions as well as tech firms including Atlassian, Google and Apple. They have an international reputation for their work in timber and transparent structures and glass, having engineered every Apple retail store in the world and significant parts of Apple HQ in California, as well as the Sky Pool in London and Beijing Central Library. Their concept design for Atlassian Central, the world’s tallest hybrid timber office building is currently nearing completion in Sydney. Brian graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, followed by Architecture at London Metropolitan University and he has taught at many UK architectural schools during his 30 year career.