Projects

Innovative approach to mine water decontamination

Ramboll developed an innovative, sustainable and economically beneficial approach to addressing the impact of metal contamination on river sediments in the River Nent in Cumbria.

Site Solutions unlocks development potential of chlorinated solvent impacted land

Site Solutions staff are using an innovative approach to remediating chlorinated solvents at a brownfield development site in Belgium. The former metal processing site is heavily contaminated with tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene to a depth of 16m and over a surface area of more than 5,000m².

Managing the demolition of former bank headquarters

Financial services company BNP Paribas Fortis appointed Ramboll to help manage the environmental and health impacts of a challenging demolition project on their former headquarters. The building had a fully operational metro network line running through its basement, was situated in a dense urban area and had a number of health and safety issues.

Biological treatment of hydrocarbon polluted soil

A former military camp is now turned into a residential area including a kinder garden.

Progress toward restoring value of Fountain Lake

Removal of more than 1 million cubic yards of sediment will reduce the lake’s internal phosphorus load and increase the water depth – ultimately maximizing water clarity and water quality throughout the watershed

End of Waste assessment on biomass fly ash

Ramboll carried out a risk assessment on biomass fly ash for Eco 2 Ltd in 2016. Our client operates a biomass renewable energy facility that combusts straw and clean wood and produces a potash-rich fly ash. We supported their End of Waste submission and established that the fly ash can be used as a fertiliser substitute when applied to agricultural land with no significant risks to human health or the environment.

Addressing methane using soil vapor extraction

Ramboll designed an active vapor extraction system to mitigate the concentrations of methane detected in the subsoil of a large commercial property and to ensure vapor intrusion control, thus reducing the risk of methane flammability in air.

PFAS - Site investigation and remediation at a former fire training ground, Australia

Demolishing a former aluminium smelter and remediating PFAS-contaminated land for future commercial or industrial use.

Identifying and attributing true sources of PFAS

Ramboll is assisting our client to identify sources of PFAS detected in soil and groundwater.

Investigation of PFAS contamination at Danish firefighting training sites

Ramboll is investigating PFAS contamination in soil and groundwater for three Danish firefighting training sites.

Investigating PFAS source in public drinking water

Ramboll is assisting a client to determine if one of their facilities is a source of PFAS in nearby drinking water supply wells.

PFAS guidance for Danish EPA and regions

Ramboll prepared guidelines for investigating and remediating PFAS contamination on behalf of the Danish EPA and Regions.

Evaluating alternatives for PFAS-containing fire-fighting foam

Ramboll assessed AFFF alternatives and recommended site-specific procedures at 40 facilities worldwide.

Securing safe drinking water in Bangladesh

The people in Bangladesh are suffering from the deadly effects of contaminated drinking water. This has been caused by naturally occurring arsenic in the earth. The Ramboll Foundation has granted financial support for a three-year research project to secure safe drinking water.

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Land contamination assessment - Development of Gibraltar Airport access road scheme

Working for the Government of Gibraltar, we developed a new access road to improve transportation links with Gibraltar Airport. The scheme consists of a 2.3km road running below the existing airport runway via a tunnel, and consequent relocation of military buildings.

Sustainable remediation of a former dye and pigment plant in France

Finding the most sustainable way to remediate heavily and deeply contaminated land.

Lake Maggiore

On behalf of ENIrewind (then Syndial), Ramboll performed an assessment for the sustainable remediation of contaminated sediments in Pallanza Bay, Lake Maggiore, Italy.

Barber Pool Conservation Area master plan

Ramboll is helping conserve and enhance a privately owned 700-acre riverine and wetland site along the Boise river to protect critical habitat for bald eagles.

Environmental claim support relating to PFAS

Ramboll successfully supported a legal claim against an indemnity agreement, setting the groundwork for environmental cost recovery negotiations.

Supporting a client during PFAS litigation, Italy

Ramboll is supporting a client during criminal proceedings related to the charge of PFAS contamination.

US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering with Nature, international

Ramboll is supporting the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) with projects around the world to sustainably deliver economic, environmental and social benefits through multi-disciplinary project integration.

Sustainable remedial option selection for a Fire Pond

A fire pond containing sediment contaminated with heavy metals was planned to be used in a road widening scheme for bus traffic in Nacka, Sweden.

Significant price reduction for property with suspected PFAS use

Assisting with due diligence of a former industrial manufacturing facility with environmental contamination by chlorinated compounds and heavy metals and potential for PFAS to have been used and released.

CitySuites, Chapel Street

Located adjacent to central Manchester and Manchester Victoria train stations, the CitySuites Chapel Street project is set to act as a catalyst for the cross city regeneration in Salford. CitySuites fuses the luxury touches of a hotel with the home comforts of residential living.

Oslo Opera House

The National Opera House (Nytt Operahus) located in the harbour area of Bjørvika, Oslo, has meant a tremendous boost for culture in Norway. The opera house was completed in 2007, opened in April 2008, and has won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in October 2008.

Optimizing tailings management at the Svartliden mine

The Svartliden Mine was brought into production in 2005 as an open pit. All tailings are disposed in a dam. A sustainable solution for the management of the tailings generated during next mining phase has to be defined as the dam capacity is soon consumed.

Helping develop Romania's new contaminated land regulations

Developing new methodologies for management of contaminated sites for the Romanian government

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Walthamstow Wetlands: Europe’s largest urban wetland nature reserve

A 520-acre complex of ten operational reservoirs in north-east London, Walthamstow Wetlands is Europe’s largest urban wetland nature reserve while also supplying around 3.5 million households in and around the capital with water.

Old Town Dock detailed design

A brownfield site full of buried obstructions — including three historic docks, riverwall tie-rods and boulders — is the location of this riverside residential development in Newport, Wales. We provided the foundation design and a loadbearing masonry option for the three buildings: four, five and six storeys high, linked by a ground floor carpark.Our design consisted of loadbearing masonry walls and precast concrete plank floors with structural screeds. In the architect’s scheme, some walls didn’t line up between floors which can be a challenge in loadbearing masonry work. We overcame this by proposing a concrete slab, transferring the loads from the walls above to those below. Disproportionate collapse was avoided by inserting steel posts in walls to tie the structure horizont ...

Restoring abandoned mine land in Colorado

Rehabilitating abandoned mine land and other key sites with site-specific native species, in collaboration with the US Forest Service and Colorado prison inmate employment programs

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Post-industrial site biodiversity restoration in New York state

Reintroducing native and rare species into former industrial waste sites in Syracuse, USA

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Emergency watershed protection program, Colorado

Rehabilitating abandoned mine land and other key sites with site-specific native species, in collaboration with the US Forest Service and Colorado prison inmate employment programs

Developing New UK Soil Screening levels

In 2012 the UK government issued revised statutory guidance on how local authorities should implement Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990: the ‘Contaminated Land Regulations’, or ‘Part 2A’.

Compliance support for a leading data center company

Ramboll is contracted to provide compliance support to the operations of three data centers in China.

Sustainable risk management near a classified NATURA 2000 area

An old shooting range located near a classified NATURA 2000 protected natural area was identified as a potential national priority site.

Environmental management of a legacy mine site in Colorado, USA

Informing US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site reclamation in challenging terrain, and leading ecological assessment for wetland delineation and biological assessment.

Samarco disaster recovery in Rio Doce basin, Brazil

Monitoring the restoration of sensitive and endangered ecosystems following the largest mining-related disaster in Brazil’s history.

Greenwich Millennium Village

Ramboll’s ecologists worked closely with a well-known London developer and their team to design and deliver a unique and sensitive brownfield development project adjacent to a protected wetland ecology park adjacent to the River Thames.

US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center, Engineering with Nature

Working together with the US Army Corps of Engineers to promote natural capital valuation and integration of nature-based features to promote habitat and ecological resiliency.

A new approach to sustainable remediation

Ramboll has developed a remedial options sustainability evaluation tool (ROSET) to enable a transparent selection of the most sustainable remedial solution for contaminated land, using a semi-quantitative approach.

PFAS source investigation, remediation and cost recovery

Ramboll developed the first PFAS stormwater criterion protective of groundwater, resulting in clean community drinking water, and helped our client save over $20 million and minimise liabilities.

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Urban Mediaspace Aarhus - Groundbreaking harbour and city environment with innovative multimedia centre

Urban Mediaspace Aarhus is the largest construction project in the history of the Municipality of Aarhus. The project transforms the industrial port environment to a new and lively city environment, creating a dynamic correlation between the city and the waterfront.

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M1 motorway widening (J25-28)

Involving the upgrade of the motorway network through widening of existing three lane carriageway to four lanes over a length of 25km, this Highways Agency Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract was the first where the target cost came in below scheme budget. It is also notable for being the first UK motorway widening scheme to be constructed using a moveable steel barrier traffic management system instead of a contra flow.

Permitting services for metallurgical plant in France

Supporting the authorisation process for the diversification of a metallurgical plant to a metal recycling plant

House of Music: Harmonic interaction in architectural playground

The outer and inner parts of the House of Music in Aalborg play very well together both in terms of architecture and construction. With its raw concrete appearance and high standards in terms of acoustics, the building contributes to the cultural development of the city and creates opportunities for attracting international artists.

Groundwater mapping - protecting our most valuable resource

As a leading consultant in water and environment Ramboll has carried out a large portion of the Danish National Groundwater Mapping Programme which comprises multidisciplinary hydrogeological projects.

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Leamouth footbridge

Ramboll and JSA Architecture won a major international competition to design a pedestrian and cycle bridge which crosses the River Lea close to the point where it joins the Thames, opposite the Millennium Dome. The elegant bascule, cable-stayed structure with a 60m mast was described by the judges as 'iconic'.

Woolston Eyes Wetlands creation

Breathing new life into Woolston Eyes nature reserve by developing 38 hectares of wetlands across two new sites.

Progress toward restoring the natural beauty and value of Onondaga Lake and surrounding habitats

A 25-year undertaking, the remediation and restoration of the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site is one of the largest and most complex remediation programs in the US.

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Greenwich Millennium Village phases 3, 4 and 5

We produced a tender devised to promote a competitive overall costing by designing for three alternate methods of construction. This placed the contractor in a strong position to secure the most economic solution.

Fawley Oil Refinery - Marine Terminal Berth 5

This project ensured the continual safe operation of one of the UK’s most critical pieces of infrastructure. It involved asset management and capacity enhancement as part of the upgrade of existing berths to accommodate larger VLCC vessels at ExxonMobil’s Fawley Oil Refinery

Paradise Phase One Enabling and Public Realm Works

Urban liveability calls for urgent action

Sometimes doing nothing can be the most costly option – both in environmental and financial terms. Representing 3.5 million residents, Jeddah officials have realised that swift action is needed to make the city more liveable in the future. Ramboll established a cost-benefit analysis and crafted a masterplan to ensure future sustainable development for Jeddah.

St Matthew Academy

Education from start to finish — primary school to A level — is provided at this single complex, created through the Government's City Academies scheme. It's built on the playing field of an existing school, which remained open during construction. When the works were complete, the old school was demolished to make room for a new sports field.Most of the teaching spaces are housed in two reinforced concrete wings, respectively two and three storeys high. The wings are neatly linked by an enclosed steel bridge and a triple height assembly hall. This and the sports hall are steel framed and clad in zinc tile and timber.The assembly hall is spanned by a second enclosed bridge, so broad that it resembles a mezzanine floor. By suspending this structure from massive steel ...

Paving the way – from pollution to sustainable recycling of oil shale ash

The purpose of this project is to show that it is possible to convert deposited and newly generated Oil Shale Ash (OSA) into valuable secondary materials for civil-engineering applications. This efficient and waste-free use of oil shale would reduce its impact on the environment while also generating economic benefits.

Guldborgsund Tunnel

The Guldborgsund Tunnel is an Immersed Tunnel connecting the islands of Lolland and Falster in southern Denmark.

Tripla blocks in Central Pasila, Helsinki

The three-block complex forms an urban centre that includes a shopping centre, the Mall of Tripla, railway station, hotel, working, living, housing and leisure-time activities.

Providing cost-efficient low-carbon solutions to reduce emissions from energy supply and transport

Climate adaptation adds value to Copenhagen suburbia

The suburban area around Gentofterenden, north of Copenhagen, has suffered from severe flooding during cloudbursts. Ramboll has assisted in improving the water management by providing a carefully considered water plan that not only caters for the increased amounts of rainwater but also enhances the quality of life of local citizens.

The Hepworth Wakefield

The new Hepworth Wakefield gallery is the focal point of regeneration on the River Calder waterfront, formerly the site of a huddle of low mill buildings. It houses a collection of sculpture by local-born artist Barbara Hepworth alongside the works of other prominent artists, and is one of the largest art galleries yet built outside London.

Tithebarn city centre regeneration

We are working on various aspects of the new masterplan for the city centre of Preston, Lancashire. The area concerned is known as Heart of the Tithebarn Regeneration Area (HTRA) and covers approximately 14.8 hectares. The masterplan provides for 32 new-build blocks, the refurbishment of existing structures, relocation of the bus station and a considerable area of new retail space, leisure facilities, public spaces and car parking.Among the key environmental aspects considered during the evolution of the scheme have been land quality, archaeology, ecology (there are bats on the site), noise impacts, air quality, microclimate, drainage, townscape, visual context and waste management. Impact on the local economy and social structure have also been studied.Our consultants undertook preliminary microclimate analysis of daylight, sunlight and wind flow on the development site and the surrounding area. The objective of the wind flow analysis was to ensure that the proposals offered a year-round comfortable external environment.Our infrastructure engineers have completed an extensive 3D earthworks model of the proposed new bus station area that optimises the cut and fill volumes. A comprehensive drainage strategy has been developed that minimises the need for sewer diversion. The surface water strategy endorses the use of Sustainable Drainages Systems (SUDS) and includes rainwater harvesting, porous paving and the extensive use of green/brown roofs.

Jätkäsaari infrastructure and environmental planning

Having served as Helsinki's cargo port for almost 100 years, Jätkäsaari will be transformed into an attractive urban residential area by 2025. The Jätkäsaari construction project consists of various commissions, which Ramboll is planning in connection with numerous client and cooperative partners.

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Tate Modern

Officially opened on 17th June 2016 the new Tate Modern extension later named the Blavatnik building is an iconic world-class addition to London’s skyline. Enabling new ways to display Tate's collection, the new building has been instrumental to Tate Modern's recent success, as it topped the polls as the UK's most visited attraction in 2018.

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Nordhavnen - international role model for sustainable urban development

With its unique positioning and an area covering the size of 625 football grounds, Nordhavnen (or Nordhavn) in Copenhagen, Denmark, is Scandinavia's largest and most ambitious city development project for the time being. The overriding vision for Nordhavnen is to become the sustainable city of the future.

Helix-London development

Two elliptical residential towers of different heights sit above a two storey podium in this mixed use development in London's Canary Wharf. One of Europe's largest McDonald's restaurants has been demolished to make way for it.The concrete frame towers, one 28 storeys high and the other 35 storeys, are linked by spaghetti-like steel bridges. Each floor has a wrap-around balcony with views to the nearby marina. The podium below houses shops and a replacement McDonald's on the ground floor; and a children's playground, screened sports pitch and landscaped public space on the first floor.A complex transfer system supporting the two towers has been integrated into the podium. Concrete beams and deep reinforced concrete walls have been strategically positioned as part of ...

One Centenary Way

Landmark commercial building at the gateway to Paradise development, Birmingham.

Redeveloping land to address the data centre boom

Ramboll’s engineering and environmental teams helped gain planning consent, while increasing site value and addressing local development objectives.

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M25 Cobham Motorway Service Area

Ramboll was lead engineer for Cobham Motorway Service Area, a 20ha development on an environmentally sensitive greenfield site.

Environmental Impact Assessment of Ellund/Egtved pipeline

Ramboll assisted Energinet.dk in carrying out environmental investigations and an environmental impact assessment (EIA) in relation to the expansion of the capacity of the gas transmission system between Ellund and Egtved in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark.

EIA and remediation planning of contaminated sediments in river Kymijoki

Thorough and correct decision-making needs to be based on well-documented facts. When it comes to deciding whether or not to spend large sums of money on environmental remediation, for instance, it is vital to have a professional consultant who can document the details of the environmental pollution.

Ayrshire College

One of the first education buildings to achieve the highest available BREEAM rating of ‘Outstanding’ at design stage, Ayrshire College’s new £53m Kilmarnock Campus provides a functional, flexible and efficient learning environment that encourages collaboration between students.

Paradise, Birmingham

Paradise is described as the most important development Birmingham has seen in a generation. The project will deliver ten new buildings and three public squares, creating a vibrant mix of commercial, residential, leisure and hotel spaces.

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Maritime Museum in Elsinore

Elsinore Harbour is the home of a new subterranean maritime museum. Ramboll has made the subterranean museum possible, with its innovative solutions and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Upgrading of the Ringsted-Fehmarn Railway Line

As part of the Fehmarn Belt tunnel project, the 110 km railway line between Ringsted and the Fehmarn-link in Rødby will undergo a comprehensive upgrade. The project includes raising the speed limit to 200 km/h and expansion from single to double track between Vordingborg and Rødby. Existing railway stations will be rebuilt and a new station will be built in Holeby. All of this in order to ensure a quick and efficient transportation of cargo and passengers to Germany.

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New Northzealand Hospital

The one of a kind new Northzealand hospital in Hillerød, Denmark seeks to reinvent hospital designs for the future. Following a 12-month intensive international design competition, the Architectural consortium of Herzog & de Meuron/Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter was awarded the contract, with Ramboll named as the engineering consultant, providing a full range of engineering services.

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Vestas Blade Technology Centre

The world leader in the offshore wind industry, Vestas was looking to create an R&D facility to prototype and test its new wind turbine design. With 80m long blades, the V164 turbine is a huge leap in wind technology. Each turbine is set to generate...

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Nordhavnsvej – the largest road construction project in Copenhagen in 50 years

The project for “Nordhavnsvej” is the first stage of a new road to Copenhagen’s Nordhavn (North Harbour). When fully developed, the urban area is planned for 40,000 residents and 40,000 workplaces.