She has led in the structural design of multiple landmark buildings including the American Air Museum and the Tate Modern and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath.
[5] Wainwright attended Queen Anne's School[1] and was one of the first female graduates of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she earned a degree in engineering in 1983.
At Arup she has contributed to The Shard, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters, Tate Modern, Velodrom (Berlin), Lycée Albert Camus (in Frejus, France) and has worked alongside architects such as Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and Ken Shuttleworth.
[2] Wainwright has been instrumental in transforming the structural engineering community, including influencing the "Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety"[6] and has served as the first-ever woman on the Joint Board of Moderators[7] (the professional body which regulates accreditation of university degree programmes in Civil engineering).
[9] In 2003, Wainwright was in the Arup team who won the International Information Industry Award recognizing their "innovation in knowledge management".