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{{short description|British structural engineer}}
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'''John Maxwell Roberts''' is a British [[structural engineer]]. He was president of the [[Institution of Structural Engineers]] (IStructE) from 2003-2004 and the 2005 recipient of their [[Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers|Gold Medal]].
== Early life and education ==
Roberts was born in Bristol. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BEng (1969) and a PhD (1972) in Civil & Structural Engineering.<ref name=alumni>{{cite web|title=Sheffield Alumni|date=30 November 2021|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/our_alumni/outstanding#DrJohnRoberts}}</ref>
== Career ==
After his PhD, Roberts worked on motorway interchanges with McAlpine & Sons then in 1974 moved to Bertram Done & Partners and soon after to Allott & Lomax in Manchester as a design engineer.<ref name=alumni/> It was there where he worked on [[Big One (roller coaster)]]. Babtie took over Allott & Lomax in 2000 and Jacobs took over Babtie in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Babtie engineers sell-out to US giant  |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12504664.babtie-engineers-sell-out-to-us-giant-scottish-group-poised-to-surrender-independence/ }}</ref> Since then Roberts has been Director of Operations at [[Jacobs Engineering Group]].
Roberts was responsible for the engineering of the [[London Eye]] and [[British Airways i360]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Dr John Roberts, The Structural Engineer|url=https://www.istructe.org/getattachment/9e019dd3-d59a-498b-a076-5b4c30fe0afa/Profile.pdf}} </ref>
== Awards and honours ==
Roberts was awarded the [[Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers]] in 2005 and an Hon DEng by the University of Sheffield in 2006.<ref name= alumni/>
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