Our mission is to create sustainable societies where people and nature flourish.
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. With branches and operations across 35 countries, Ramboll combines deep local insight and experience with global competences to create sustainable societies and drive positive change for our stakeholders.
Our 17,500 experts deliver solutions across Buildings, Transport, Energy, Environment & Health, Water, Management Consulting, and Architecture & Landscape.
Foundation ownership
The Ramboll Foundation is the majority shareholder in the Ramboll Group A/S and owns 96.9% of the company’s shares. The remainder are owned by Ramboll employees and Ramboll Group A/S.
The Ramboll Foundation is an independent Danish enterprise foundation established in 1972 to safeguard the long-term financial viability and development of Ramboll for the benefit of employees.
A responsible company
Ramboll is committed to acting responsibly towards clients, employees, society, and our company, as set out in the Ramboll legacy. We seek to promote and provide services and solutions that contribute to sustainable development, while avoiding projects with an aggressive, destructive, or suppressive purpose towards nature or people. Our vision, mission, values, and commitments permeate our efforts on sustainable development and guide how we act.
We are a member of the UN Global Compact and adhere to the UN Guiding Principles. Our climate targets are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative and as such aligned with the Paris Agreement below 1.5 degrees. We disclose our climate action to CDP with a B score.
Our Value creation
Our value creation begins with our clients’ and society’s need for sustainable change, and results in financial as well as non-financial outcomes for our main stakeholders – Clients, People, Society, and Company – as described in Progress on our commitments (p 22–23).
Our clients’ needs are shaped, among others, by an ambition to contribute to a sustainable future and mitigate the negative consequences of a number of crises and challenges related to sustainability.
We work across our clients’ value chains, leveraging our expertise and solutions, innovation and creativity to address the risks and opportunities that follow from sustainable change. By bringing together our technical expertise, domain knowledge, and digital capabilities, we support our clients in driving improvements and developing new business models that are inherently sustainable.
The need for sustainable change
Sustainability challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, environmental degradation, social exclusion, and loss of biodiversity drive the need for change across society, influencing demands and expectations of clients and stakeholders.
Clients in the public and private sector are prompted to find solutions to mitigate risks or seize opportunities that derive from new regulations or changes in stakeholder expectations and demands.
This can both be defensive measures, to reduce the negative impact of operations, or actions to seize new business opportunities and ways of operating.
How we respond
Our desired role is to be the trusted partner for our clients, creating value by guiding them successfully through sustainable change, while understanding their specific challenges and opportunities. Our knowledge, technical expertise, and power to innovate is our most important contribution. Therefore, people, our employees and their ability to deliver excellence, is at the core of our company.
Our expertise and services are inputs to project realisation. We work across our clients’ value chains and embed sustainability into all our projects. We deliver expertise from the early stage, overall strategic, conceptual and planning levels, to the more concrete detailed design level all the way to the later stage operational, maintenance, and decommissioning level. We work in an integrated way with sustainability, circularity, innovation, and digital technologies to create optimal solutions for our stakeholders.
Delivering impact
For Clients we deliver value through the specific challenges we help them to solve.
For People we deliver a highly engaging and inclusive workplace with attractive opportunities for professional and personal development.
For Society we deliver liveability, economic prosperity, and social cohesion through enabling a more resilient built environment in balance with nature.
For Company we secure long term continuity and profitable growth, while staying true to Ramboll’s legacy