Stuart Hardy
Arup
Associate Director
Stuart Hardy
Stuart graduated from Imperial College in 1999 with a degree in civil engineering and stayed on to complete a PhD in geotechnics. Upon graduation, Stuart joined Mott MacDonald’s foundation and geotechnics team in Croydon before joining Arup in 2006.
Between 2015 and 2020 Stuart was the geotechnical lead for the £4bn S1/S2 contracts on HS2 working for the contractor joint venture SCS (Skanska, Costain and Strabag). In 2021 Stuart joined Laing O’Rourke in the head office in Dartford as the technical leader for all aspects of geotechnical work in the parent company and subsidiaries, before returning to Arup in 2024.
Stuart was one of the lead authors of the CIRIA guide for the design of embedded retaining walls (C760), one of the UK’s representatives to CEN for the update to Eurocodes and chairman of the BSI committee B526/3 for writing the UK’s national annex for the 2nd generation of Eurocodes. Stuart is also a member of the ISSGME Technical Committee TC206 which focus on the development and promotion of the Observational Method.
