William Ian Liddell (born 1938[2]) is a structural engineer and the designer of London's Millennium Dome.
He was one of the founding partners of Buro Happold and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge University School of Engineering.
He studied mechanical sciences at St John's College, Cambridge followed by a diploma in concrete structures at Imperial College, London.
[2] He was project engineer on the Sydney Opera House, playing a significant role in the formfinding of the iconic roofs.
For his work as Chief Design Engineer on London's Millennium Dome project, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours.