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Former RIBA president Sunand Prasad calls him ‘giant’ of the profession
Engineer Max Fordham, founder of the eponymous engineering business he set up in the 1960s, has died aged 88.
Born in June 1933, Fordham passed away at home yesterday morning, the company announced in a statement this evening.
Paying tribute, the firm said: “Max pursued a new approach to engineering based on his insatiable curiosity about how buildings work. He resisted pigeonholing into the conventional boxes of mechanical or electrical engineering and was always interested in the whole building.”
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