Jane Wernick FREng Hon FRIBA FRSA CEng FIStructE FICE is a structural engineer who likes to collaborate with architects and other designers on any project that gives delight.  She worked for Ove Arup and Partners from 1976-1998 including a secondment to Birdair Structures Inc. from 1980-1981. She was Principal in Charge of Arup’s Los Angeles office from 1986-88.  Her most notable project with Arup was the Millennium Wheel.
 
In 1998 she founded Jane Wernick Associates, a small firm responsible for a wide portfolio of buildings, bridges, sculptures and furniture.  Projects include the renovation and rebuild of the Young Vic Theatre, London; new cloisters to house coffins for the cemetery Island of San Michele in Venice; the Xstrata treetop walkway at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; an extension to the Henrietta Barnett School;  Antony Gormley’s studio; a classroom made from converted containers set on timber piles in the marshes for the RSPB at Rainham; and the new Lightbox Museum in Woking.  The work of the practice can be seen on their website, www.wernick.eu.com.

She has taught at many architecture schools, including Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the Mackintosh School of Architecture and the Architectural Association.  She is a member of the CABE Design Review Panel; the CIC Diversity Panel; the Edge; and the steering committee of the RIBA think tank, Building Futures, for which she edited the book, Building Happiness – Architecture to Make You Smile.