Sustainable buildings

Sustainability for better buildings

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainability for better buildings

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainability for better buildings

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainability for better buildings

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable buildings

The global construction industry has a massive environmental impact. Sustainable practices can help minimize waste, conserve energy, and save money, however, it must be done with consideration for the human perspective.

Building designers and consultants must support clients in navigating in the constantly evolving sustainability agenda and ensure that buildings are designed to be attractive and liveable for the individual users.

Understanding the project context and the clients’ agenda is essential when defining a sustainability strategy. We use our own Sustainability Toolbox to highlight relevant focus areas and define ambition levels in collaboration with clients and partners.

We have global expertise in Life Cycle Assessments, timber structures, energy optimization and circular economy to design carbon neutral buildings. Our human centric approach places the health & well-being of building users in the centre of design.

Our experts master more than 20 global recognized environmental certification schemes such as LEED, BREEAM and DGNB that document the sustainability impact of all types of building projects.

Our sustainable buildings projects

Learn more about how we work with sustainability with our building projects.

Kristian Augusts Gate 13

The eight-storey office building at Kristian August Gate 13 is an excellent example of a sustainable construction with its BREEAM-NOR-certification of ‘Very Good.

Magasin X, Uppsala

In Uppsala, Vasakronan is building Sweden’s largest wooden office building, Magasin X, with a frame built entirely of wood. The building’s wooden frame will be visible to passers-by through its glass façade.

Joh. Johannson coffee production plant

The relocation of Joh. Johannson’s coffee production has resulted in a solid wood industrial building in Vestby, Norway.

Didsbury Technology Park

Didsbury Technology Park is a commercial office in South Manchester, consisting of a net zero carbon office to be classified by the UK Green Building Council (GBC).

Lidl distribution centre in Järvenpää

Operating 100% on renewable energy and with negative operational carbon emissions, Lidl’s distribution centre in Järvenpää excels in sustainable and smart solutions.

Helsinki Central Library Oodi

The 16,000 m2 Central Library Oodi embodies a new era of libraries in Finland. Besides functioning as a traditional library

The Makers District

The Makers District is set to become one of Abu Dhabi’s most iconic communities.

The new North Zealand Hospital

The new North Zealand Hospital rethinks previous hospital designs, increasing the focus on social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

A team of Ramboll experts is helping to implement an integrated approach to developing a next-generation and cross-cutting sustainability strategy.

Middelfart City Hall

Rambøll has helped the Municipality with the construction of a new city hall, where the environmental, social and economic sustainability is state-of-the-art.

Jumeirah Gate Dubai

Ramboll has been appointed to undertake the MEP and sustainability design services for the Address branded hotel in Dubai Marina.

BESTSELLER project

The BESTSELLER logistics centre will be placed by the E45 motorway exit near Haderslev and will handle the logistics of goods from productions in Asia, Turkey.

Dalston Works

Dalston Works (previously known as Dalston Lane) is the largest Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) project globally

Aviation in Croatia

Ramboll has been awarded a major contract for the client consultancy and contract management of the expansion programme at Dubrovnik Airport.

Carlsberg urban development

It is the vision of Carlsberg Properties to create a new sustainable district in Copenhagen with housing, shops and office buildings

Ramboll Village

The Ramboll Village, the new headquarters for Ramboll Finland, is a state-of-the-art smart building with distributed energy systems that make the built environment more sustainable.

Insights into sustainable buildings

Learn more about how we work with sustainability with our building projects.

Actions to cut CO2

With materials management estimated to represent two thirds of global CO2 emissions, most sectors need to develop in a more circular way. The buildings sector is no different.

Helping LEGO

In the future, all of LEGO Group’s manufacturing facilities will have sustainability as the guiding principle.

Forgotten emissions in buildings

Buildings and the construction sector are responsible for nearly 40% of annual global carbon emissions – that’s a well-known fact.

Sustainable Buildings in the shadow of COVID-19

COVID-19 has not shifted focus away from sustainable buildings. More than 90% of respondents in our latest Sustainable Buildings Market Study state that sustainability is important for a successful business operation.

Circular Economy

Understanding the value proposition of the circular economy transition and, more importantly, how to capture that value is key to enterprises taking the first tentative circular steps.

Embodied Carbon

When gazing at a beautifully designed building, carbon emissions are likely not the first thing that comes to mind. But they are there. Hidden. Embodied. Drawing on a recent report, two sustainability experts point to a new opportunity space for buildings material companies.

Cross laminated timber

Ramboll is the UK’s leading CLT designer with extensive experience in concept design, detailed design and connections design having worked with cross laminated timber (CLT) .

Life Cycle Assessment

According to World Green Building Council 39% of all global carbon emissions are related to buildings.