We enable society’s transition to a future that flourishes
Ramboll is a global engineering, architecture and consultancy company with more than 18,000 experts that create sustainable solutions for governments and companies all over the world.
We combine insights with the power to drive positive change to our clients, in the form of ideas that can be realised and implemented.
We call it: Bright ideas. Sustainable change.
Who we are
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company, delivering expertise and sustainable solutions to clients and partners.
Founded in Denmark in 1945, Ramboll today operates across 35 countries. We combine deep local insight and experience with a global knowledge base to create sustainable societies and drive positive change for our clients. We call it: Bright Ideas. Sustainable change.
As The Partner for Sustainable Change, we enable our stakeholders to realise their goals and navigate the transition to a more sustainable future.
We work across our clients' value chains, leveraging our expertise, 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 improvement and developing new business models that are inherently sustainable.
Our 18,000 experts are at the heart of Ramboll's operations, helping drive sustainable impact. They deliver standalone and multidisciplinary solutions across Buildings, Transport, Energy, Environment & Health, Water, Management Consulting and Architecture & Landscape.
Ramboll is a participant of the UN Global Compact, and our business contributes significantly to progress the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our climate targets are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative as aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Committed to sustainable progress
We are a long standing member of the Global Compact, with approved science based targets for carbon reductions in line with the 1.5⁰C pathway, and through our projects help to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore our history
Two engineers stood on a Copenhagen rooftop in 1945, and agreed to start their own firm. The rest is history
From a rooftop, to the future
In October 1945, two young engineers, Børge Ramboll and Johan Hannemann, stood on the rooftop of the Technical University of Denmark, looking out over Copenhagen. Like others at that time, they had witnessed destruction and distress during the Second World War, and felt a strong urge to help rebuild society and shape a better future.
A perfect match
It turned out that Rambøll and Hannemann were a perfect match; Rambøll, a visionary humanist with excellent leadership skills complemented Hannemann, a highly talented engineer with a flair for technical details. They printed a stack of business cards with the inscription Ramboll & Hannemann. Consulting engineers and so it began.
Threads in our history
Our shared culture relies on us respecting our founders approach to work, society, and employees. And their legacy is alive and well.
In 2020, we celebrated a significant milestone: the first 75 years of Ramboll. In 2022, we marked half a century since Ramboll, Hannemann and three other partners in the company transferred ownership of Ramboll to a foundation, with the purpose of ensuring the perpetual existence of Ramboll to the benefit of its employees and wider society.
To celebrate 50 years of our Foundation ownership, we launched Threads in our history, a unique digital look at Ramboll s people, culture, and skills, offering insight into five chapters or threads in Ramboll s history that help weave the unique Ramboll fabric
Better conditions for people and nature
Right from the start, the company was permeated by a strong humanistic and social vision to help rebuild the societies and improve the conditions for people and nature. This fundamental purpose remains the same today, reflected in mission, vision, values, and commitments.
Decarbonisation drives great opportunities for investments and solutions to benefit nature and humans
Fossil fuels provide 83% of global primary energy demand and contribute about 73% of global carbon emissions. A huge expansion of solar and wind power is needed to displace fossil energy with renewable energy in the electricity grid. It means scaling-up deployment of green hydrogen to power heavy transport and industry.
At the same time, the whole life carbon of products and built assets needs to be radically reduced by mitigating embodied and operational carbon and focusing on circular approaches. We can reduce carbon impact of the built environment buildings, infrastructure and construction and do that while boosting liveability, so that people and nature can flourish.
Decarbonisation brings unprecedented opportunities, massive investments, and new solutions that improve living conditions for humans and nature. Businesses and organisations want to cut their carbon footprint but face complex challenges: from defining carbon reduction roadmaps, to implementing low-carbon strategies.
Our key decarbonisation targets
Ramboll is rising to the challenge of climate change, helping move the world closer to meeting global climate and nature goals: Halving carbon emissions and being nature positive by 2030, and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.
