doi:10.3850/978-981-07-2613-3_P005
National Stadium Roof Structure – Singapore Sports Hub
Mike King
Senior Associate
Structural Leader Singapore Sports Hub
Arup, Singapore
Email: mike.king@arup.com
Mike King is a Senior Associate in Arup’s Singapore office and Structural Leader of the Singapore Sports Hub project. Over his 21 year career he has come to specialize in long-span structures for major stadia, airports, sports arenas and stations in his native Australia, North America, the UK and South East Asia. Amongst his most prominent projects preceeding the National Stadium were as Arup’s Project Director and Structural Leader of the London Aquatics Centre with Zaha Hadid for the London 2012 Olympics and the diagrid-shell roofed new entrance building for London’s iconic King’s Cross Station. Mike has been a key figure in the design of long-span airport roof structures for Arup in Beijing and Toronto and lead the design of the Manchester City stadium roof in the UK. Mike appeared in the Discovery Channel’s ’Megastructures’ program and featured in ’Going for green - Britain’s 2012 dream’ documentary on the construction of the London 2012 Olympic Venues. He also appeared in National Portrait Gallery’s ’Road to 2012’ exhibition on key contributors to the London Olympic Venues construction.
