Tony Fitzpatrick (engineer)

Anthony James Fitzpatrick FREng HonFRIBA (1951-26 July 2003) was an eminent structural engineer and director of Arup.

He graduated from Leeds University in 1972 with a first class degree in civil engineering, having won the Holst Prize.

He worked for Arup in the UK and in Iran, before joining the design team for the new British Library at St Pancras Station in 1978.

In 1982 he relocated to Hong Kong where he worked on the Hong Kong Bank headquarters, the Shanghai Hilton and Century Tower in Tokyo.

[1] In 2003, while working on the design for Heathrow's Terminal 5, Tony Fitzpatrick was killed in a road accident when his bicycle flipped, throwing him under a passing truck.