Keith Brownlie

Director, BEAM Architects

Keith Brownlie is an Architect and director of specialist bridge architecture firm BEAM Architects. He has 30 years of bridge design experience including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the Lockmeadow Millennium Bridge, and many other modest and major structures in the subsequent quarter of a century.

My Speaker Sessions

Thursday 27 November 2025

14:50

25 Years Later: The Millennium Bridge Building Bubble Reviewed

14:50 - 15:10
  • A Synopsis of the 2025 IABSE Henderson Colloquium at Christ’s College Cambridge.
  • How did the millennium bridge building programme happen?
  • Were the bridges a success? Could or should it happen again?
  • What would we do differently now?