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MIDDLE EAST COMPANY PROFILE WE DESIGN A BETTER FUTURE CONTENTS We are engineers, scientists and consultants who believe in the power of design to create a better future. Our design philosophy is to always make room for the human experience. WHO WE ARE Ultimately, we measure our success by MARKETS how well people and communities are BUILDINGS served by what we have done. TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT At its best, good design can regenerate communities, protect natural ENERGY environments, and connect people OIL & GAS across vast distances; it can provide PROJECTS new energy solutions and create RECENT AWARDS buildings that people are happy to be in. Good design is also robust and long- lasting. We share this design approach with the world’s leading architects and developers – with whom we regularly collaborate, often as a preferred partner. RAMBOLL MIDDLE EAST COMPANY PROFILE - ISSUE 5 — 03.2015 13,000 EXPERTS RAMBOLL GROUP 300 OFFICES Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company founded in 35 COUNTRIES Denmark in 1945. 143 o c e s i n Ramboll is a leading engineering, design the Nordics incl. Greenland and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. The company employs close to 13,000 experts in the Nordics, North America, the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and India, supplemented by a significant representation in Asia, Australia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. 54 o c e s i n North America With more than 300 oces in 35 countries, Ramboll combines local 61 experience with a global knowledgebase o c e s i n Rest of Europe constantly striving to achieve inspiring 17 o c e s i n I n d i a a n d and exacting solutions that make a Middle East genuine dierence to our customers, the end-users, and society as a whole. 9 Ramboll works across the markets: oces in Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Asia Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, Oil & Gas and Management Consulting. 3 oces in South America RAMBOLL MIDDLE EAST 1 oces4 in oce in Africa Australia and We are a global practice of engineers, designers and New Zealand consultants who share a commitment to excellence in everything we do. Ramboll in the Middle East specialises in Our biggest customers include Middle East Oces: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, structural engineering, building services, Presidency for Meteorology and Fujairah - UAE, Doha - Qatar, Riyadh, Jeddah - KSA sustainability and environmental services, Environment (Saudi Arabia), Qatar FACTS transport services and oil & gas services. Foundation/Mshereib Properties (Qatar), We have five oces located in Dubai; Government of Fujairah (UAE), Damac MISSION OWNERSHIP GEOGRAPHICAL Abu Dhabi; Doha, Qatar; Jeddah and Properties (UAE) and Al Naboodah Through the inherent ability of our people, our decency The Ramboll Foundation is SPREAD Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. National Contracting Group (UAE). and exacting business the main owner (97%) of The Nordic market is principles and values, Ramboll Group A/S. The considered Ramboll’s STRONG CUSTOMER With nearly 450 international experts Ramboll strives to create remainder of the company home market and RELATIONSHIPS in the Middle East, Ramboll is regarded solutions to our customers is owned by Ramboll includes Denmark, We have worked that balance human and employees. Sweden, Norway, and with each of our top as one of the key players in the region. commercial needs and are Finland. We also have a ten customers for an With a thorough understanding of genuinely insightful and HEAD OFFICE strong presence in the average of 50 years. regulatory frameworks both locally and progressive. Ramboll’s Group UK, India and the Middle globally we are able to provide clients Management and head oce East. VALUES are located in Copenhagen, with complete, integrated and multi- VISION • Insight Ramboll is committed to Denmark. RAMBOLL PROJECTS • Integrity disciplinary solutions. helping create inspirational PER YEAR • Empathy and longstanding solutions REVENUE Ramboll participates in • Enjoyment that allow people and Ramboll Group 2014 revenue approximately 40,000 • Empowerment nature to flourish. was EUR 1.1 billion. projects per year. MARKETS BUILDINGS ‘AN INSPIRED ENGINEERING Ramboll has worked on some of the most recognisable SOLUTION IS NOT WHEN THERE buildings in the Middle East and abroad. IS NOTHING LEFT TO ADD BUT From the iconic Shining Towers to the One roller coaster is F1-style and OUR SERVICES WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT massive Ferrari World Theme Park, the uses a winch to slingshot the cars .’ new Cleveland Clinic to the exclusive Yas similar to craft launch systems. The • Acoustics TO TAKE AWAY and Rotana Hotels: our engineers have second is GT-style. Each coaster has • Building physics • Building services made their mark on some of the most a steel and concrete framed station • Digital design in the world building consisting of an observation forward-thinking buildings • Electrical today. deck, load/unload platform, queue engineering corridor, maintenance structure and • Facade engineering We offer afull range of engineering overhead gantry crane. Ramboll • Facilities services from structural, façade and designed the coaster foundations and management fire engineering to building services, buildings, integrated services and high • Fire & safety geotechnical, infrastructure and voltage design, and the perimeter and • Ground engineering acoustics. Central to our approach is maintenance roads. • Lighting design the return to first principles on each and • Mechanical engineering every design problem we face. We test At a time when the construction industry • Project management and re-test our assumptions, constantly was facing immense challenges, we • Refurbishment challenging ourselves to create more brought an enthusiasm for the pure • Structural relevant designs that serve our clients invention of engineering coupled with a engineering and their communities well. long-standing reputation for unlocking • Survey project potential. • Sustainability We aim to integrate our designs across services disciplines from an early stage. Our • Technical due work on the Ferrari World Theme Park diligence in Abu Dhabi is a good example of this. The Theme Park project was driven by its fast track design and construction FACTS programme. Using our network of teams and offices in both the UK and UAE, we REVENUE IN 2015 developed a flexible approach to the 409 million EUR engineering that enabled us to meet the programme level, where the Ferrari- NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES themed attractions are located. Columns 3,600 worldwide are set matching the challenges. Under GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD the roof, we engineered three concrete More than 100 offices in 10 countries frame levels; the undercroft at ground level, a mezzanine and the plaza piling RANKINGS grid below. This supporting structure Ramboll is among the top three takes the weight of the 19 separate steel buildings designers in Europe (source: frame buildings that house the rides. ENR) Our building services engineers worked OUR CUSTOMERS Our customers include leading with both the shell and core and theme architects, developers, contractors, park architects to ensure that all the building owners, private corporations, systems could function together for universities, government institutions different purposes, from the strict (incl. health and culture), and tolerance demand on electrical supply municipalities. for rides to providing comfortable conditions for attractions and large value circulation areas. SHINING TOWERS, ABU DHABI photography — H+H BUILDINGS BUILDINGS BUILDINGS SPECIALISM Acoustics MEP & Sustainability Ramboll specialises in architectural Our MEP engineers work with their acoustics, environmental acoustics, noise building physics colleagues to produce control, acoustic modelling and vibration ecient, comfortable buildings in which isolation. We operate in a wide range structure and systems seemingly interface. of sectors including education, culture, We design energy-ecient and water healthcare, transport, environment, public conserving solutions for: speculative oce buildings and commercial developments. developments, educational and research We are pioneers in acoustic modelling buildings, housing, healthcare projects, arts and encourage clients to listen to aural and leisure projects, public sector buildings. demonstrations to experience their project Our MEP design engineers work in a fully during the design process, be it a railway integrated manner with the entire design station or an opera house. Ramboll core team to ensure all discipline requirements expertise include acoustics for performing are satisfied with a tremendous focus arts, architectural acoustics, building towards energy and water conservation acoustics, environmental acoustics, within the built environment. Our design noise control, vibration control, acoustic selection process and working philosophy modelling. are continually striving for the most creative sustainable cost eective solutions. We set and meet stringent targets for energy use, Building Information Modelling (BIM) CO2 emissions and consistently outperform current international standards in these We are at the forefront of digital design, areas. Our team is very highly qualified oering the most advanced intelligence with chartered and professional engineers in computational analysis, laser aided recognized by CIBSE and ASHRAE. We also modelling and BIM. We are skilled at have a vast array of qualified sta to deliver applying advanced computational analysis building rating