Rob leslie-carter

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Association of Project Management - Britain's Finest Announced

[http://www.arup.com/_assets/_download/download216.pdf Builder & Engineer article - Sorted! The UK's Top Project Manager]

Project Magazine article - Beijing, Bubbles, and Project Management Legacy

Imperial College Business School Alumni Review - Rob Leslie-Carter, Bright Star

Arup Journal, Delivering Laban's Creative Vision

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Rob Leslie-Carter is a British engineer and project manager with consulting firm Arup, resident in Sydney Australia. He has played key roles in the project management and delivery of London’s Laban Dance School and the Water Cube in Beijing. He was named 'Project Manager of the Year' at the 2003 UK Association for Project Management awards.

Biography

Robert Michael Leslie-Carter was born in Oxford, England on 24 October 1970. After periods living in Qatar (1971-76) and Chester (1976-81) his family returned to Oxford in 1981. From Magdalen College School in Oxford, he went on to study Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1992.

Arup Career

Leslie-Carter has worked with Arup since graduating from Bristol University in 1992. He began his career in Arup’s Newcastle office, and spent time in Arup’s Middlesbrough and Manchester offices before moving to Arup Project Management in London in 1996.

From 1998 to 2002, Leslie-Carter was Client Project Manager for the Laban Dance School in Deptford, south-east London. He was named 'Project Manager of the Year' at the 2003 UK Association for Project Management Awards, for his leadership of the project. Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Laban also won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2003.

Having relocated to Sydney, Leslie-Carter managed Arup’s multi-disciplinary design team for the Beijing National Aquatics Centre (the Water Cube), for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Working with PTW Architects and CSCEC International Design, the Water Cube has won awards at the Venice Biennale and the 2006 Popular Science Best of what's new 2006 in engineering.

Leslie-Carter is currently Principal and Office Leader of Arup’s Sydney Office. He is a guest lecturer at the University of New South Wales in their Masters of Project Management course. With Faculty Director Patrick Xiao, he is developing research papers into project collaboration between Australia and China.

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