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Gifford is part of the Ramboll Group, providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and the environment.
History
The firm was founded by Dr. Edwin Gifford, a pioneer of prestressed structures, in Southampton in 1951 under the name E.W.H. Gifford & Partners.[1] It won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2002.[2]
In March 2011, Gifford was bought by the consulting engineering company Ramboll.[3][4]
Operations
The firm has activities focused on:
- Buildings
- Civil Engineering
- Environment Development Planning
It has offices in:
- Birmingham
- Cardiff
- Chester
- Leeds
- London
- Manchester
- Oxford
- Southampton
- Australia
- York
- Abu Dhabi
- Episkopi (Cyprus)
- Dubai
- Gibraltar
- New Delhi
Notable projects
- Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, UK, for which it won the IStructE Supreme Award for engineering excellence and the RIBA Stirling Prize
- Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, UK
- Forthside Bridge, Stirling, UK
- M25 motorway widening, London, UK
- Juan Pablo II Bridge, Chile
- Hungerford Bridge Footbridges, London, UK
- Twin Sails bridge, Poole, UK
References
- ^ The Motorway Achievement by Ron Bridle, Page 307
- ^ Humberts – Industrial letting Archived 3 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine Property Mail, 2 February 2004
- ^ "Ramboll acquires Gifford LLP". Construction Week Online India. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Matthews, David. "Ramboll buys Gifford to create leading UK engineer". Building. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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