
Paul Richardson
Principal | U.S. Market Lead - New England
Paul Richardson is a principal at ý and leads the structural engineering team in the Boston office.
Having been with ý for nearly 25 years, Paul’s creativity and ingenuity have led to the successful completion of projects worldwide across all sectors – from higher education, cultural, and residential buildings to mixed-use complexes and transportation hubs. Since joining the Boston team in 2016, Paul has worked on numerous projects in the city and across the United States, including Harvard University’s new Science and Engineering Complex, a nearly 500,000ft2 building that encompasses a broad range of research areas, as well as MIT’s refurbishment of the Hayden Library. Additionally, he is working on the expansion of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and Wellesley’s Global Flora Greenhouse, Massachusetts’ first ETFE structure.
Recently Paul has been leading a number of Mass Timber projects that resulted from a study with MIT into the use of Mass Timber in Affordable Housing. Paul is the project lead on the 201 Hampden Street project which is in line to be Boston’s first CLT building and a new Recreation & Wellness Center at Quinnipiac University which is a hybrid steel/mass timber structure. Paul has been a regular guest lecturer and critic at MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern University.