Tina Irvine
Engineer
Tina Irvine is a civil and structural engineer based in Leeds. She has worked on various schemes for highways, rail, and pedestrian bridges, and more recently, she has moved into a technical design role, shaping, optimising and implementing digital automation tools, parametric design and coding within her work.
Tina believes that sustainable and innovative design can develop in tandem with technology. She applied her parametric design skills on a large social value project in York, enabling quick and fluid changes to a complex tied-arch bridge geometry, reducing the materials used.
Her passion for sustainability led her to form Arup’s Climate Emergency Response Committee (CERC) in the North West and Yorkshire, aiming to embed sustainability within projects. She has recently worked with her colleagues at Arup to create a template for carbon reporting in infrastructure projects, enabling engineers to quantify the total carbon cost of different design solutions.
Tina was awarded the 2017 Institute of Civil Engineers Prize after completing university as the student who performed best in the programme and the 2017 Smeatonian Medal from the ICE for outstanding final year student.
In 2022, Tina was recognised in the Women’s Engineering Society’s Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards.