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Awesome Engineers: British Airways i360

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  • Duration: 1 min
  • Publication date: 11 Nov 2016
  • Part of series Engineering Rockstars

Abstract

Sahir went to meet John, an engineer at Jacobs Engineering Group, to talk about his career and his work on the British Airways i360

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  • British Airways i360
  • engineer
  • engineering
  • i360
  • maths
  • maths science
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  • John Roberts

    John Roberts

    John is the i360’s Chief Engineer and a director and shareholder. John is Executive Director of Operations at Jacobs UK and a visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. John was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers 1999-2000 and awarded the Gold Medal 2005. John is a leading structural engineer with expertise in passenger-carrying rides; he was the London Eye’s principal engineer.
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