Gifford & Partners is a British firm that provides engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and the environment. It is part of the Ramboll Group.
History The firm was founded by Edwin Gifford, a pioneer of prestressed structures, in Southampton in 1951 under the name E.W.H. Gifford & Partners.The Motorway Achievement by Ron Bridle, Page 307 It won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2002.Humberts – Industrial letting Property Mail, 2 February 2004
In March 2011, Gifford was bought by the consulting engineering company Ramboll.
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
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