Alvaro Canga Ruiz
About Alvaro Canga Ruiz
Alvaro Canga Ruiz is a Structural Engineer at Arup in London, with a background in bridge engineering and graduate research in railroad infrastructure design.
Title
Structural Engineer
Company
Arup
Current Role and Responsibilities
Alvaro Canga Ruiz currently works at Arup as a Structural Engineer. He is based in London, England. In this role, he serves as a Technical Reviewer on HS2 packages S1 and S2. His work emphasizes the structural design of both new and existing structures. He also focuses on Design-Build projects, particularly project and design management, discipline coordination, and construction administration.
Previous Professional Experience
Before his current role, Alvaro Canga Ruiz worked at Arup in various capacities. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Bridge Engineer based in the Greater New York City Area. Prior to that, he served as a Graduate Engineer at Arup from 2017 to 2019. Additionally, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2016 to 2018, where he conducted research in railroad infrastructure design. He also interned at FHECOR Ingenieros Consultores as an Intern Project Engineer and as a Civil Engineering Intern at Dragados USA in 2014.
Education and Academic Background
Alvaro Canga Ruiz earned his Master of Science in Civil Engineering, specializing in Structural Engineering, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which he attended from 2015 to 2017. He also holds a Grado Ingeniería Civil y Territorial from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where he studied from 2011 to 2015.