Gregoir Chikaher is the Global Business Area Leader at Arup. He has been with the company for more than 30 years working on hotel projects in Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Far East and Americas. His particular skills include the design of innovative and sustainable engineering system. He enjoys drawing on Arup’s worldwide network to bring together the best technical and local expertise and understanding of operators’ needs and developers’ business needs – delivering facilities that are cost effective both to build and operate. He has worked on numerous world class hotels including Claridges Hotel, London; Corinthia Hotel, St Petersburg; Aquapura Resort, Brazil and Aspire Tower, Doha