News from 2018

A truly smart society is about people. The smart use of technology is not a goal in itself but a means to achieve improved liveability and sustainability.

Ramboll has received no less than four honours at the ACE’s Constructing Excellence Awards and the Ground Engineering awards in the UK.

The City of Miami Beach has formulated an ambitious strategy to address and reduce flood-risks in the future. The strategy was recently assessed by a team of experts from Urban Land Institute including Christian Nyerup Nielsen, Director and climate adaptation expert in Ramboll.

Today, 1,000 talents from all over the world gather in Singapore to craft ideas in favour of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. On the team is Samy Porteron from Ramboll Management Consulting. 

Cattle are potentially affecting the waterways of the North American grasslands, a new study suggests, and their behaviour may be causing a deviation in sediment concentration.

What a week! On Wednesday we celebrated the NCE100 awards recognising the UK’s top civil engineering firms, and on Thursday we continued the celebrations at the European Women in Construction and Engineering (WICE) awards, highlighting the achievements of women working in construction and engineering. 

Ramboll recently participated in an industry round-table in Edinburgh with representatives form the Danish and Scottish governments, including Lars Christian Lilleholt, the Danish Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate.

The team behind the planned 44-storey residential tower along the harbour in Aarhus, Denmark, has been revealed after receiving approval on the sale of the land from the Aarhus City Council. The new tower will sit beside the existing Lighthouse development which consist of 2 low-rise buildings, 8 and 10-storeys high respectively.

Ramboll in Sweden has acquired the consulting and education company RSM&CO, developing its offering within environment and sustainability advising.

Ramboll is supporting the “Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Global Teamwork” Stanford course. The “AEC Global Teamwork” engages globally distributed students to collaborate on building projects earlier in the work process while jointly exploring and developing integrated digital BIM models.

How do we establish an agile innovative culture? And how do we nurture creativity in large corporations? These were some of the challenges considered at a recent innovation seminar held at Ramboll in Copenhagen.

City of Cambridge releases results of Ramboll’s Low Carbon Energy Supply Strategy study. Cambridge is among the first U.S. cities to move to tactical implementation of carbon neutrality as part of its Net Zero Action Plan.