Buro Happold is revolutionising the sports and entertainment sector by combining strategy and implementation. Giving clients a single point of contact and a truly holistic service aimed at increasing sustainability, reducing risk and enabling high performance venues and spaces.
We believe that many of the sector’s simple problems have been solved. Those that remain require a breadth of knowledge and an ability to build and lead successful teams of experts.
At heart, our team are problem solvers, exclusively focused on the sports and entertainment sector. We draw on specialists across the wider Buro Happold company in order to create teams that can tackle our clients’ most challenging problems.
Our approach
The sport and entertainment advisory team specialise in providing data-driven strategic, economic and design services in six key areas:
- Vision creation
- Strategy
- Feasibility
- Brief definition
- Venue design
- Venue operations
We add the most value to a project when we are engaged pre-concept and able to apply our Strategize-Design-Use approach as a holistic service, working the project from beginning to end.
Our work encompasses the entire sports and entertainment eco-system, from venues to major events and operators to government bodies.
We have a diverse client based, working with professional sports clubs, cities, government ministries, agencies, international federations, universities and event organising committees amongst others.
We empower our clients to make smarter, more informed and value-based decisions in capital projects. Our team are proven industry experts, able to take learning from our analysis of in-use venues and plug it back in to the strategic definition of the next.
What our clients say
“We have worked together over the past year, and it has been a positive experience with many perspectives being shared that have moved our projects on greatly. We look forward to many more opportunities to work together.”
David Davies – Project Lead, Live Nation
