Featured insights
Featured insights
| June 17, 2025
Strategic resilience in a circular world: The time is now for CERA
Our recent whitepaper explores why Circular Economy Risk Assessments (CERA) matters now, how it can be applied in practice, and what it means for businesses navigating the transition to a more circular, resilient, and strategic economy.
| June 17, 2025
Designing with purpose: How the Carbon Management Framework empowers engineers
Carbon is a growing priority in infrastructure development — but clear guidance is often missing. The Carbon Management Framework helps engineers turn ambition into action with a practical, structured approach.
| June 10, 2025
The circular trilemma
Managing trade-offs across material security, market competitiveness, and responsible performance
| May 21, 2025
A new way to build: Alliance contracting enables smarter German infrastructure
When it comes to delivering complex infrastructure, the model matters as much as the mission. That’s why a new rail project in northern Germany is not only important for the country’s connectivity — it’s also a breakthrough in how we collaborate, deliver, and drive value.
| May 18, 2025
Rewriting the rules of the rail market: Lessons from 11 paths to liberalisation
Rail is at the centre of Europe’s mobility ambitions — and its regulatory dilemmas. As passenger demand grows and climate targets tighten, governments are being asked to reform how rail is structured, funded, and operated. But beneath the surface of EU directives lies a much more complex and human reality: no two markets are alike, and liberalisation is not a copy-paste exercise.
| May 18, 2025
Light rail of the future – European lessons in urban mobility transformation
As European cities look to decarbonise, reduce congestion, and enhance liveability, light rail is becoming a key tool for sustainable mobility and urban transformation due to its blend of capacity, efficiency, and low-emission operations. This article explores the growing momentum for light rail across Europe through recent project experience, focusing on success factors, common challenges, and the critical importance of early public engagement and integrated planning.
| May 12, 2025
Biogenic carbon in timber buildings – how should it be considered?
Timber has a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the construction industry: replacing carbon-intensive materials such as steel and concrete, lending itself to circular economy principles, and promoting sustainable forest management. However, it is its ability to sequester and store carbon within harvested wood products (HWPs) that is the ace up its sleeve. Or is it? Our review takes a deeper dive into biogenic carbon to assess its appropriate use when reporting embodied carbon. It should be noted that this study only considers the carbon associated with timber; related issues such as biodiversity impact have not been explored.
| May 4, 2025
Lower-emission steel: How to make the transformation profitable?
While the transition to lower-emission steel production is imperative for achieving climate neutrality, European steelmakers are on an expensive learning curve, facing the highest production costs in the world. In a new whitepaper, Ramboll experts reflect on key challenges and strategic pathways to ensure long-term profitability and viability of lower-emission steel.
| April 30, 2025
Defining net zero targets: Understanding changes in SBTi’s V2 corporate standard
The Science Based Targets Initiative has released a new draft guidance for the net zero targets and is seeking public feedback on the proposals. In this piece, our experts review the major changes that could impact your business.
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