RAMBOLL IN THE MIDDLE EAST MAKING CITIES LIVEABLE, THROUGH INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING
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Ramboll is a leading engineering, design, environmental and consultancy company employing 16,500 experts. Our presence is global with a strong representation in the Northern Europe, North America, Europe, Middle East, India and Asia-Pacific. In the Middle East and Asia region, we constantly strive to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our clients, the end-users, and society as a whole.
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PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN
Ramboll’s holistic approach to urban development encompasses strategy, planning, and world class technical design services and is based on an integrated multidisciplinary skills base. We have an extensive track Ramboll head oce record working with a number Ramboll oce of the world’s largest cities to create liveable, sustainable, and implementable urban development solutions that are fully adapted to the local context.
BUILDINGS TRANSPORT WATER ENERGY ENVIRONMENT & MANAGEMENT HEALTH CONSULTING Buildings form a fundamental Mobility fuels economic and social Water is essential to life and one With security of supplies, climate part of our lives by shaping our development and with 50% of the of our most precious resources. change, energy efficiency and National, regional and local As a globally recognised communities and daily activities. world’s population now living in Working with municipalities, utilities, resource scarcity as top priorities authorities are responsible for environmental and health As one of the top eight building urban areas, efficient and reliable and industrial clients Ramboll draws on the global agenda, there is a issues that affect us all; from health consultancy, we have earned designer’s worldwide (ENR 2017), transport systems are essential. on proven multidisciplinary expertise general push towards renewables, care, education and day care to a reputation for technical and we have designed inspiring, efficient, To meet this need, Ramboll has to manage the most challenging although conventional energy will strategic planning of infrastructure scientific excellence, innovation and and award-winning buildings for been working on some of the water resources, wastewater, and continue to play a significant role and climate initiatives. Drawing on client service. Advances in science several decades and we are the world’s largest, most innovative storm water issues. We integrate in the energy mix in the coming 500 management experts, Ramboll and technology and evolving preferred partner for some of the infrastructure projects and is the treatment process selection and years. As a consultancy, Ramboll is acts as a trusted partner to public regulatory, legal and social pressures world’s leading architects and leading consultancy in the Nordic engineering, operational services, at the forefront of addressing the administrations, creating the insights create increasingly complex developers. Our design philosophy market. We create value for and regulatory management and green transition and offers a holistic needed to make informed strategic challenges for our clients. We evolve is to always consider the human transport authorities, contractors planning to deliver innovative approach to energy that supports decisions that promote stronger to keep pace with these changes – experience and we challenge and local authorities by providing solutions that gain both industries the sector on the journey towards societies. With unprecedented by adding new services, contributing assumptions to create the most multidisciplinary technical excellence and society. more sustainable solutions. levels of competition in the global to scientific advances or expanding practical and economic designs and minimising resource usage. economy, Ramboll focuses on . geographically. empowering private sector clients with expertise and powerful management tools. 4 ABOUT US ABOUT TAMBOLL 5
ABOUT US
Ramboll is an international engineering and design consultancy and provider of management consulting services.
MISSION Founded in 1945 in Denmark iconic planning and design projects Create sustainable societies as a two-member partnership, in the buildings, oil & gas, transport where people and nature Ramboll has expanded to become infrastructure, environmental and flourish an international consultancy that energy sectors. VISION today employs approximately A globally leading 16,500 engineering consultants and Our impressive repertoire of projects consultancy delivering professionals. over the course of 20 years is integrated and sustainable testament to our team’s imagination solutions, shaping today and tomorrow Located in 35 countries and in more and ambition with many of our than 300 offices, Ramboll provides designs becoming landmarks. OWNERSHIP engineering and design consultancy Ramboll Group A/S is services across eight markets, namely Ferrari World, one of the largest 98 per cent owned by the Ramboll Foundation buildings, transport, environment indoor theme parks in the world; with the remainder of the & health, water, planning & urban Green Planet, the first living museum company owned by Ramboll design, energy and management in the region; as well as Al Shaheen, employees consulting. one of the most complex offshore oil and gas projects in Qatar. We also Ramboll in the Middle East lead the way in district cooling and Ramboll provides multidisciplinary waste-to-energy consultancy. solutions that serve businesses, governments and communities across Recognised as a leading sustainable the Middle East region. From the society consultant, we constantly engineering design of buildings and strive to achieve inspiring and infrastructure to the management of exacting solutions that make a resources such as energy and oil & genuine difference to our clients, gas, our work spans disciplines and end-users, and society as a whole. We sectors. What unites our services place a huge emphasis on our strong is a commitment to design rigour, local presence combined with a use innovation and value for the end user. our international outlook, rich Nordic principles and global knowledge With four offices based in the United base to provide an unwavering Arab Emirates (Dubai and Abu commitment to sustainable design, Dhabi), Qatar (Doha) and Saudi innovation, and buildability. Arabia (Riyadh), our 350-strong team specialise in structural engineering, building services, sustainability and environmental services, transport, energy and oil & gas services. 01 Hub Zero, Dubai An indoor entertainment park Our engineering consultants, Reviewed the constructability scientists and professionals believe and masonry designs for 15m high walls that great skills are the norm; we Client: Besix also believe that our combination of Completed: 2016 human ingenuity, exacting solutions Services: Lead Design and creativity together with the Consultant - Structural ability to solve the most complex engineering, MEP, fire & life safety, infrastructure and challenges is what sets us apart. Over transport services, validated the course of two decades, we have and optimised initial design. delivered some of the region’s most Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi 6 OUR APPROACH 7
OUR APPROACH
As with all our work, our commitment to sustainability underpins everything we do.
Ramboll’s commitment to and work across all phases of a we run our projects. They also guide sustainability forms the basis of our project from inception through our behaviour and how we build on approach to the way we operate and to design, construction and into our client partnerships and deliver on is at the heart of every project that operation and maintenance stages. our promises. Our Fundamentals are we work on. As a leading sustainable We are recognised as a valued based on the commitments we make society consultant, we are acutely and trusted partner by delivering to our clients and society. aware of the responsibility we have innovative engineering solutions time in designing and shaping the built after time. With that in mind, our team of environment, and with that in mind, experts use their different areas of we ensure our solutions successfully We are a firm believer that innovation expertise to collaborate on projects. serve and connect societies both now creates major opportunities for By working in multidisciplinary teams, and in the future. making a positive contribution to they are encouraged to think of the society’s sustainable infrastructure. overall project gains rather than from Creating client value a discipline-specific point of view We have established long-term Innovative culture whether it is a concept design or trusted partnerships with our clients Every design challenge is different, creating infrastructures of the future. across the public and private sectors so conventional thinking is always in the Middle East. From leading questioned whether there is a better architects, developers, contractors, way to build a project. regional and municipal levels and government institutions. At Ramboll, we invest in research, and one such research initiative is Our passion and unwavering a specialist group called Innovation commitment to innovation is focussed Design (iD) providing unique, complex on ways to bring about benefits as structures and dimensions to building well as improved outcomes for our projects using algorithmic-parametric “Everyday we find clients and society as a whole. By design which will create new fields of innovative solutions to establishing long-term relationships possibility for architecture and help to the challenges posed to gain deep insights into our clients’ reshape architecture today. The team by the global trends of needs we are able to provide them work from concept to realisation of with tailored solutions that are unique projects. urbanization, climate - these can be found in some of the change, resource scarcity region’s most iconic buildings and Sustanable solutions and globalization.” landmarks. As engineers and scientists, we Ramboll Group - CEO continually seek to exploit new ways – Jens-Peter Saul Our holistic approach to our projects, in which we can significantly reduce integrating our services into solutions resource and energy demand in the that reflect the complexity of the projects that we design. We lead problems we solve, positions us very the way in sustainable design by well to help clients realise their vision. continuously pushing the boundaries By combining local knowledge and of what is possible, and in doing so, 02 Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi insight with global expertise, we we promote sustainable solutions Client: Aldar Properties offer clients qualified guidance that throughout the lifecycle of the Architects: Benoy supports every stage of the project. project. Completed: 2010 Services: Structural, MEP facades, fire & life safety, At Ramboll, Our Fundamentals guide Our expertise and portfolio geotechnical engineering, master We draw upon specialist skills and the decisions we make every day. We planning and urban development capabilities from diverse disciplines live them in the way we work and how Image credit: Benoy Architects 8 OUR SERVICES 9
OUR SERVICES
Strong trusted teams delivering outstanding solutions.
AWARDS Ramboll provides multidisciplinary planning, infrastructure and ground solutions that serve both private engineering. 2018 and public sectors across the Middle Structural Company of the Year 2018, Middle East Consultant Awards 2018 East region. Our solutions include Environment design and strategy that have a broad Our team of experts work closely Highly Commended - Electrical application in the built environment with our clients on everything Project of the Year - Makers District, and beyond. from geophysical surveys to waste MEP Middle East Awards 2018 management. Our solutions are 2017 The vast range of skills and specialist always tailored to their individual MEP Consultancy of the Year - knowledge found among our needs, and because we have the Middle East Consultant Awards engineers and scientists, together resources to oversee a complete Electrical Project of the Year - The with our experience of local, national project from start to finish, no matter Jumeirah Gate, MEP Middle East Awards and international projects, means how complex, we ensure our clients we can offer our clients technical achieve cost-effective solutions. Highly Commended Mechanical solutions tailored to local conditions Project of the Year - The Jumeirah that are one step ahead, that boost Energy Gate, MEP Middle East Awards their competitive edge and are Among the ten leading energy 2016 fully compliant with international consultancies in Europe, we focus on Project of the Year - The Green standards. adding maximum value - both to our Planet - Middle East Consultant clients and society at large. Our team Awards Our capabilities include a broad of experts can transform challenges Project Manager of the Year, range of specialist engineering into solutions that are future proof, Construction Week Awards services to clients from feasibility energy efficient, cost effective and studies, assessments and research, practical. Highly Commended Mechanical through planning to construction Project of the Year - The Green Planet, MEP Middle East Awards and operation. Our disciplines Oil & Gas include structural engineering, Our team of experts provide a Highly Commended MEP building services, sustainability and multidisciplinary service portfolio Consultancy of the Year, Ramboll environmental services, infrastructure that covers the entire asset and MEP Middle East Awards and transport, energy as well as oil & project life cycle from early phase 2015 gas services. studies and detailed design to Electrical Project of the Year - modifications, lifetime extension Jeddah Corniche Towers, Buildings projects, complete or partial revamps, MEP MIddle East Awards With a diverse team of buildings tie-ins, maintenance, and process Highly Commended - Young experts, we have the capability to improvements – all tailored to fit each Engineer of the Year, design a broad range of building client’s purpose and demands. MEP Middle East Awards types high-rise towers, to retail malls, offices, mixed-use developments, residential, hotel and leisure.
Infrastructure and transport 03 Corniche Towers Jeddah From feasibility studies, assessments High-end residential and retail and research, through planning and development negotiations, to construction and Client: Hayat Abdul Latif operations, we have the in-house Jameel Co. Architects: U+A Architects capability to undertake projects of Services: Structural all sizes. Our spearhead services engineering, civil engineering, within transport include aviation, geotechnical engineering, MEP bridges, ports, rail, transport and fire & life safety services 02 Image credit: U+A Architects 10 MARKETS 11
BUILDINGS
INNOVATION - BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
As one of the top eight building designer’s worldwide (ENR 2017), we combine the technical skills and experience of our to deliver expert solutions to some of the world’s biggest projects. Our diverse team of building experts have a genuine passion for engineering, which is applied with the same rigour and enthusiasm to our projects whether it is the design of a stadium or a single façade connection detail.
Our design philosophy is always to consider the human experience, and we relish the challenge of complex, specialist facilities that have demanding planning, technical and aesthetic requirements.
In creating smart solutions for clients, our services include:
• Acoustics • Building physics • Building services • Client consultancy • Innovation design • Electrical engineering • Façade engineering • Fire & life safety • Ground engineering • ICT and extra low voltage design • Landscape architecture • Lighting design • Mechanical engineering • Project management • Refurbishment • Security design • Specialist services • Structural engineering • Survey • Sustainability services • Technical due diligence
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KEY PROJECTS
Our portfolio contains a variety of projects throughout the Middle East of all scales and sizes.
PROJECT AWARDS THE GREEN PLANET, DUBAI the bio-dome have been designed The GreenPlanet - Project of the Ramboll is proud to have played specifically to maintain the plants and Year, Middle East Consultant Awards a key role in the development of wildlife, with the humidity set at 70 2016 Dubai’s very own tropical indoor per cent and temperatures between Highly Commended for Mechanical rainforest, complete with more than 25°C and 28°C. Project of the Year, MEP Middle East 3,000 species of plants, animals and Awards 2016 free-flying birds. Although the project came with many challenges, it was crucial that the RANKINGS Ramboll is among the top 10 Located at City Walk in Dubai, The MEP design met the overall design buildings designers in the world Green Planet recreates an exotic, elements for the living museum and (source: ENR 2018). sensory experience of travelling that it incorporated the external through a lush and verdant rainforest. landscape and hardscape so that the OUR CLIENTS Visitors can explore a range of striking controlled environment ensures that Our clients include leading architects, developers, landscapes from mysterious forest the live rainforest plants, birds, and contractors, building owners, pools to tree top canopy platform, animals flourish. private corporations, universities, cliff-hanging gardens and waterfalls government institutions (incl. health surrounded by living habitat, birds, Overcoming structural challenges and culture), and municipalities. butterflies and aquatic animals. The Green Planet provided structural engineering challenges. The 04 Ramboll was the Design and Build complexity and intricacy of some contractor’s Lead Consultant for the of the details were such that the Green Planet where our role was to information could not be adequately provide full engineering design and conveyed through industry standard Facades innovation site supervision for the iconic living 2D drawings and reports. Ramboll The façade involved the design and organic Amazon rainforest museum. supplied software models to the detailing of a complex suspended contractor and fabricator in support tension rod façade system; which was Pivotal in realising Dubai’s first ever of 2D contractual deliverables, while braced intermittently to the primary indoor tropical rainforest a range of 3D software packages was diagrid structure. A unique feature of The Green Planet used to convey critical information is the environment within the bio- - a Ramboll standard practice to The design and engineering had dome. Ramboll’s MEP team re-created provide 3D BIM software models to to take into account detailed the characteristics of a natural contractors and fabricators. consideration of the various loading environment experienced in the heart conditions, building movements, of the deepest rainforests. The accurate spatial coordination for pre-tensioning, as well as the dynamic the steel embedment plates provided forces exerted by a series of spring To create the controlled and a further challenge, with many of the supports at the top of the structure. 05 conducive environment, our MEP anchors being installed on hard- Such a complex façade required team modelled the bio-dome with to-define doubly curved inclined close integration between the façade an engineered solution developed to beams. Ramboll interfaced the steel design team, structures design team allow for control environment and fabricator’s Tekla model with the and the specialist façade contractor interconnection for the public from in-house 3D BIM model to accurately to achieve a fully coordinated and the more normal air-conditioned coordinate the locations of the developed design. supporting spaces. embedment plates. This innovative structural members and openings interface paid immediate dividends: it in the façade. A careful selection of Our team also considered the size was further used to carry out a clash glazing was required to ensure that 04-06, The Green Planet, Dubai Developer: Meraas Developments of the building which has a built-up detection exercise throughout the a suitable spectrum of light could Client: Besix - Orascom Joint area of 4,365 sqm as well as the fact building. Resolving these issues at be transmitted into the building in Venture that the building has a 30m by 30m design stage removed the time and order to support the animals and Completed: July 2016 cube over a single basement, with risk associated with the potentially plants; while achieving the desired Services: Lead Design Consultant three sides concrete, the fourth side hazardous working at height required energy performance and aesthetic - Structural engineering, facades engineering, MEP, fire & life safety has a glazed facade and an atrium for detailed survey and alteration. requirements. and waste management. roof. Environmental parameters in 06 14 PROJECTS PROJECTS 15
KHALIFA UNIVERSITY EXTENSION MAKERS DISTRICT, ABU DHABI PHASE ONE, ABU DHABI A vibrant hub responding to the The Khalifa University Extension rise of the maker movement – a Phase One Project adds an additional global social movement with an area of 120,000 sqm to the existing artisan spirit – that is set to become 34,500 sqm campus that now serves one of Abu Dhabi’s most iconic a total of 3,000 students and 762 communities. Ramboll will provide faculty and staff. The new extension lead consultancy and design, is equipped with world-class facilities supervision and management such as new auditorium, students services over a three year period on centre and sport centre also includes the first phase of the Makers District Abu Dhabi’s first medical school, an working alongside international integrated engineering college and architects BIG and MVRDV. The research & development facilities. 18-hectare mixed use development is designed as a waterfront community MSHREIB DOWNTOWN DOHA that cultivates creativity through PHASE FOUR, QATAR residential, hospitality, commercial Once completed, the mixed-use and retail space. With over 1,000 development will comprise 14 residential units, 11,000 square metres buildings set on a six level basement, of commercial and retail space and a with a combination of commercial construction value of AED 2 billion. and residential properties, retail, The first phase of the Makers District cultural entertainment areas and 07 09 includes 13 mixed buildings ranging entertainment areas with a total land from mid to high rise with a maximum use build-up-area of 350,000 sqm. of 24 storeys with a built up area of approximately 390,000 sqm. Ramboll was appointed to undertake Construction will start early 2018 for the complete MEP and structural the Artery and the entire scheme is engineering design services for all scheduled for completion in 2020. superblocks and associated basement levels. The engineering design is JUMEIRAH GATE, DUBAI provided with energy efficiency and Ramboll has been appointed to water conservation at the forefront undertake the MEP and sustainability of the system selection processes. design services for the Address The project also incorporates a branded hotel in Dubai Marina known district cooling plant for the entire as Jumeirah Gate. Jumeirah Gate is development that provides chilled a mixed-use development consisting water for the air conditioning system. of twin towers with a built-up-area Ramboll has incorporated a number of approximately 225,000 sqm with of sustainability measures in the a total height of 30-metres high design for a minimum of a LEED respectively. The two 74-storey high- Gold rating and has integrated all rise towers will include the branded engineering services precisely within five-star hotel with 182 rooms, the structure; BIM was used to deliver 469 serviced apartments and 479 a 3D solution using REVIT. residential units, joint at the upper levels and topped with a roof top destination restaurant, bar and large 07 Khalifa University Client: Khalifa University infinity pool. Architects: RSP Architects 009Makers District, Abu Dhabi Services: Civil, structural engineering, Client: IMKAN geotechnical engineering, Architects: Dewan infrastructure, MEP, façades, Services: Lead Consultant (design, sustainability, waste management, supervision and management services environmental, traffic and local over a three year period), Structural, consultancy MEP, Facades, Fire Life Safety, Transport Image credit: RSP Architects Planning, ICT/AV, Acoustics, Waste Management and Sustainability, Site 08 Mshreib Downtown Doha, Phase 4 supervision. Image credit: IMKAN Client: Musheireb Properties Architects: HOK architects 10 Jumeirah Gate, Dubai Services: Structural engineering, Client: Mirage Leisure & Development Inc MEP, facades, fire & life safety, Architects: Killa Design acoustics, sustainability & QSAS, civils Services: MEP and sustainability services infrastructure, transport planning and Awards: Electrical Project of the Year - MEP waste management Middle East Consultant, Image credit: HOK Architects Image credit: Killa Design 08 10 16 MARKETS 17
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIES
Committed to delivering sustainable solutions, Ramboll has established a reputation for providing innovative and practical services that take into consideration projects of all kinds and sizes for both public and private sector clients from concept and detailed design to regulatory permitting through to construction.
A major strength is our full range of multidisciplinary design, engineering and consultancy knowledge that allows us to address the economic, social, physical and environmental aspects of any transport and infrastructure development.
Our core services:
• Aviation • Bridge engineering • Earthwork modeling • Ground engineering • Hydraulic engineering • Infrastructure asset management • Masterplanning & urban development • Mobility & transport planning • Ports & marine structures • Road & highway engineering • Transport planning, traffic impact assessment & traffic safety • Tunnel engineering • Utility design
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RANKINGS GREEN LINE UNDERGROUND DVE, With a core management team based FUJAIRAH 2040 We rank as no. 15 over global QATAR in Doha who are supported by the FRAMEWORK PLAN, UAE transportation consultancies (source: ENR 2018). Ramboll appointed by PORR, Saudi presence of discipline leads, the With a coastline on the Gulf of Oman, Binladin and HBK JV provides project sees the collaboration on the the Emirate of Fujairah is a gateway OUR CLIENTS Design Verification Engineer (DVE) delivery of several Ramboll disciplines to the Indian Ocean and a place of Our clients range from public services for the design of Green Line involving temporary structures, significant geopolitical importance for authorities at the national, regional Underground. tunnels, geotechnical engineering. the region. Coupled with far reaching and municipal levels, to contractors, investors, transport operators, and strategic opportunity and a range other private companies. The design and construction process In November 2014, three additional of internal development and growth requires an independent certification areas were included in Ramboll’s pressures, the Emirate is proactively of works by a DVE. scope of works: MEP, architecture and seeking to develop and implement external services as built drawings. a strategic direction that considers The section of the Green Line which the Emirate’s potential economic, falls within Ramboll scope comprises The Green Line Underground DVE has environmental and development six stations, two switch boxes, escape established Ramboll as a preferred requirements beyond 2040. shafts, one through and 18.7 km of supplier of services to Qatar Rail in connecting twin tunnels. its development rail initiatives in the Ramboll was commissioned by the country. Government of Fujairah to develop Scope of work an Emirate-wide Framework Plan for Ramboll’s scope of work is to confirm Fujairah, one of the seven Emirates that the design complies with QRail’s making up the United Arab Emirates Employer Requirements, undertake (UAE). The Framework Plan for the independent analysis and calculations Emirate - known as `Fujairah 2040’ as well as undertake detailed checks presents the strategic direction of drawings and schedules. for an integrated sustainable growth encompassing the realms of economic, social, urban, rural, infrastructure, environment, cultural heritage and sustainability in the local and regional context.
11 Green Line Underground DVE, Ultimately, Fujairah 2040 will enable Qatar the Government of Fujairah to Client: PORR, the Saudi Binladin successfully deliver and implement a Group and HBK Contracting Join vision for the future. Venture Services: Design Verification Engineer for new underground line. MASDAR MASTERPLANNING, ABU DHABI To assist in building the world’s most sustainable community, Ramboll 12 was appointed to deliver an overall landscape plan and conceptual landscape design for Masdar City’s public realm, and establish a city-wide guidance for the design, selection and assessment of landscape elements. Our main goal was to create forward- thinking, innovative designs coupled with precise engineering to meet our client’s vision to “build the world’s most sustainable city”.
12 Fujairah 2040 Framework Plan Client: Fujairah Municipality Services: Transport, environment, buildings, oil and gas and management consultancy
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ENVIRONMENT
SOLUTIONS DELIVERED
Ramboll is ranked as one of the world’s leading environmental consultancies and trusted by clients to manage their most challenging environmental, health and social issues. We continually strive to be at the forefront of our fields, delivering truly integrated solutions that set new standards and make a genuine difference to our clients, the environment and society as a whole.
Our team of experts are made up of scientists and engineers with considerable experience in a broad range of specialisations where we have earned a reputation for technical excellence, innovation and client service. Our in-house capabilities mean we are able to offer a fully integrated project team delivering across the value chain from strategy development to project delivery environment and waste projects.
In delivering solutions that achieve Environmental regulatory and permit approval to local and international requirements, Ramboll has worked with a wide variety of clients in the Middle East, from the private sector and in government. In the private sector, we have provided a full range of ESIA services for entities in residential and industrial development, infrastructure, mining, energy production and transmission, oil and gas development, and ports.
Our key services:
• Air quality • Carbon management • Climate change adaptation • Contaminated land • Environmental due diligence • Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) • Environmental and social planning • Environmental management • Flood risk assessment • Groundwater • Health & occupational safety • Noise
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RANKINGS JEDDAH ENVIRONMENTAL This was the first largest GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION IN The project was performed in three Ramboll’s specialism in geophysics Ranked 8th by Environment ASSESSMENT AND environmental project ever won in THE EMIRATE OF DUBAI phases. meant that we were fully equipped to Analyst (EA) amongst the world’s environmental consultancies in ENVIRONMENTAL the Middle East region with a team Ramboll was awarded the water and deal with this complex environment. relation to size, geographical SOCIAL MASTER PLAN of 40 experts from our offices in the environment contract to explore the • Phase 1: obtaining approvals Specialised radar technology was diversity and global ambitions. and Environmental assessment and Middle East, the United Kingdom and feasibility of groundwater aquifers for from Dubai’s Road and Transport used for imaging and mapping the the tenth largest firm by revenue in social master plan studies covering Denmark. desalinated and fresh water storage. Authority to permit works to groundwater, a more environmentally the “Engineering/Design” category 15 disciplines and services across the start on the field. friendly technique than the traditional of ENR’s ‘Top 200 Environmental Firms’ report city of Jeddah in the Kingdom of The study’s scope covered the Ramboll’s experience in the • Phase 2: fieldwork; and way of drilling which causes noise and Saudi Arabia. required environmental and social successful completion of the Liwa • Phase 3: analysis and reporting of disturbance to the environment and OUR CLIENTS studies in Jeddah over an area of feasibility study perpared for Liwa the findings. habitat. Our clients range from public The Jeddah Environmental Impact approximately 4,600 sqkm. Oasis contributed to Ramboll’s authorities at the national, regional and municipal levels, to contractors, Assessment (JEA) and the Jeddah appointment by the Dubai Electricity During the exploration, we realised Drawing from our pool of experts investors, transport operators, and Environmental Social Master Plan The JEA provided a baseline of and Water Authority (DEWA) to some of the works undertaken were throughout Ramboll ensured that we other private companies. (JESMP) are part of the Jeddah existing environmental conditions perform the groundwater survey, within the boundaries of the natural met the short timeframe set by the Government’s Plan to oversee a included the natural and cultural using non-intrusive methods, to reserves around Dubai, which falls client. comprehensive series of engineering, resources and environmental and check and assess the potentiality of under different and strict regulations, environmental and social activities environmentally related socio- Dubai aquifers to store and naturally and separate approvals had to be 14 Jeddah Environmental that include studies to resolve current economic problems that Jeddah desalinate the sea water. obtained from the Natural Reserves Assessment and Environmental and future environmental problems. has been facing. The complete Department. Social Masterplan Client: Jeddah Storm Water The studies identified environmental assessment provided information The desalinated water, used purely Drainage Program Team (JSDP) issues and their impact in connection on corrective actions in terms of for agriculture, could potentially save and Presidency of Meteorology with Jeddah on a regional scale. prevention and mitigation of adverse DEWA between 70 to 80 per cent of and Environment (PME) impacts. the cost of traditional desalination. Services: Air quality, marine and thermal pollution, surface Ramboll was awarded the role of water, waste water, ground Environmental Consultant for the 15 Groundwater exploration in the water, transport, solid waste and complete JEA and JESMP projects Dubai Emirate radioactivity, socio economics, reporting directly to the Jeddah Client: Dubai Water and Electricity land use, public health, energy/ Authority (DEWA) Storm Water Drainage Programme climate, natural hazard, Completion: Octber 2015 noise, terrestrial ecology and team (JSDP) and the Presidency of Services: Geophysical survey of archaeology Meteorology and Environment (PME). Groundwater.
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ENERGY
RAMBOLL OFFERS GLOBAL LEADING COMPETENCE WITHIN MAJOR POWER PLANTS, WASTE-TO-ENERGY, DISTRICT COOLING AND WIND ENERGY
Modern energy systems face increasingly complex challenges. Global energy demand is rising as societies develop, whilst we must also reduce climate change impacts. Growth in renewable generation along with the development of higher efficiency and flexible fossil fuel plants are increasingly seen as the key to delivering reliable lower carbon solutions.
Ramboll has more than 45 years of experience in the planning, design and implementation of energy solutions, typically acting as the Owner’s Engineer, Lender’s Engineer or project and programme manager.
Our international team of energy specialists provide expertise on the full spectrum of energy technologies and all parts of the value chain from production through to transmission and distribution. We assist our clients in all project phases, ranging from planning and engineering design, to long-term operation and maintenance support.
Our key services:
• Wind energy • Waste-to-energy • Thermal power • District energy • Power systems • Asset management • Renewable energy • Energy planning
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES FIRST UTILITY SCALE WIND FARM Ramboll was involved in the project DISTRICT COOLING WITH MEGA- Ramboll has approximately 1,500 IN JORDAN from site identification through PROJECT IN MAKKAH people across the company working with different aspects of energy, Acting as the Owner’s Engineer on a to commissioning of the turbines Ramboll is the Technical Advisor in including oil and gas and energy- new wind farm development, Ramboll and ensured bankability for the connection with the planning and efficient buildings, 800 of whom are (through the recently acquired CUBE) international lenders was kept implementation of a 540MW district organised in Ramboll Energy. played a central role in implementing throughout the project including wind cooling project in Makkah, Kingdom the first utility scale wind farm in assessment, environmental and social of Saudi Arabia. GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD 46 Energy offices (permanent and Jordan. Ramboll cooperated with the impact assessment and construction project offices) in 14 countries: developer for Jordan’s first large- supervision. 3,600 Dilapidated buildings have Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK, scale wind farm project from the been demolished in order to make Germany, Poland, Switzerland, USA, early stages of the project through to SALALAH II IPP PROJECT space for a new central pedestrian Canada, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, Singapore and China commissioning. 440MW CCGT pathway. The King Abdul Aziz Road The plant will comprise a 440MW Project measures 3.65 km in length OUR CLIENTS Ramboll also acted as the main power generating plant utilising running from the city outskirts to Our clients include public and technical consultant in all project combined cycle gas turbines and the Grand Holy Mosque. The average private utilities, developers, stages, including site selection associated auxiliaries The plant will width is 320 metres, and the project contractors, industrial companies, banks, local authorities and and layout determination process, have dual fuel capability with natural includes the construction of two governmental institutions. wind measurement campaign, gas as the primary fuel and fuel oil as roads, a metro line, a grand mosque environmental and social impact back-up fuel. The scheduled date for and over 200 plots that will house assessment, permitting, tendering commercial operation is January 2018. more than 100,000 people. and contract negotiations for the DBOM (Design, Build, Operate and Ramboll is providing the consultancy The King Abdul Aziz Road Project is Maintenance) contract, securing services to monitor the construction also expected to alleviate the chaotic 17 project financing by several and commissioning of the plant pilgrim activity during Hajj. international lenders and contract to ensure that it is carried out in negotiations with NEPCO as the local accordance with the requirements As Technical Advisor for the district off-taker. of the Power Purchase Agreement, cooling project, Ramboll delivers and to provide the necessary co- conceptual design, employer’s During the design and construction ordination between the construction requirements and procurement phase, Ramboll was responsible and commissioning of the plant, the assistance. for the supervision, contract grid substation and the gas receiving management, budget and schedule facilities. The first deliverables were the design, control, risk and claim oversight, location and quantity of the chiller the management and coordination plants together with the piping of interfaces (client, NEPCO, DBOM design and advice on the buildings Contractor) as well as the technical connectivity to the pipeline network. interaction with the financing parties Phase 2 comprises assistance to and the lenders’ engineer. the Client in the procurement of the chiller plants.
16 Wind Farm, Jordan Client: Project Developer Period: 2010-2015
17 Salalah power plant, Oman Client: Oman Power and Water Procurement Company Period: 2015 - ongoing
18 District Cooling in Makkah Client: Umm Al Qura Development & Construction Company Period: 2015-2016 Image credit: Umm Al Qura Development & Construction Company 16 18 28 MARKETS 29
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AMAZING AL SHAHEEN FEASIBILTY STUDY FOR ARTIFICIAL 1,800 oil and gas specialists Qatar has one of the fastest growing ISLANDS IN THE ZAKUM OIL FIELD worldwide economies in the world. It sits on The Zakum field stretches over NUMBER OF OFFICES the world’s third-largest proven gas some 1,200 sqkm - making it one 55 offices in 14 countries: Denmark, reserves thus controlling enormous of the largest oil fields in the world Sweden, Norway, UK, Germany, hydrocarbon reserves. Al Shaheen with a very long expected operating Poland, Switzerland, USA, Canada, is a production oil and gas field life. Ramboll studied the effects of United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, Singapore and China. off the North East coast of Qatar introducing the artificial islands and in the Arabian Gulf. It has been burrow areas in the existing oil field RANKINGS developed by Maersk Oil in what as an alternative to establishing Ramboll is ranked no. 1 in constitutes one of the largest and numerous platforms for increasing Cogeneration, no. 1 in Towers & antennae, no. 2 in Hazardous waste, most complex offshore oil and gas oil production. The evaluation no. 3 in Wind generation and no. 8 in projects undertaken in the world. By consisted in the construction of four Offshore and underwater facilities in 2012, the Al Shaheen field consisted to six new artificial islands to be the ENR survey of top international of 35 platforms, and produced around used as the centre for drilling and design firms (Dec 2018 rankings) 40 per cent of Qatar’s oil and gas oil production in future. Ramboll’s output. Ramboll carried out the analysis showed that the construction brownfield design including design of the artificial islands would not of modifications of existing platforms affect the environment and the and a discrimination study that existing structures significantly. would ensure a smooth tie-in of the In collaboration with ZADCO new platforms to the existing power shareholder ExxonMobil, Zadco
19 Amazing Al Shaheen system. Ramboll set up a dedicated evaluated the concept of artificial Client: Maersk Oil Qatar team for this project, which at peak island based drilling and production Completion: 2013 times counted +130 people. centres and found it to be an Services provided: 3D laser scanning attractive forward development plan, & survey, Electrical, instrumentation which was pursued and executed. & telecom, Modifications & maintenance, Mechanical, Piping, layout & mechanical engineering, Process engineering, Project management, Technical safety & HSE and Structural & civil engineering
20 Zakum Island Client: Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) Completion: 2010 Services provided: Conceptual studies, Environmental, Financial studies, Structural & civil engineering
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