Gifford (company)

Gifford

Type	LLP
Industry	Construction and business services
Founded	1951
Headquarters	Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Australia, UAE
Key people	Gordon Clark, (Chairman) Steve Canadine, (Chief Executive)
Revenue	£41.7 million (2007)
Operating income	£4.5 million (2007)
Net income	£3.9 million (2007)
Number of employees	657
Website	Ramboll Group

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.

Operations

The firm has activities focused on: Centres of excellence

• 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

View of the bridge by night from the Newcastle side

• 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
• M25 motorway widening, London, UK
• Juan Pablo II Bridge, Chile
• Hungerford Bridge Footbridges, London, UK
• Twin Sails bridge, Poole, UK

References

1. The Motorway Achievement by Ron Bridle, Page 307
2. Humberts - Industrial letting Property Mail, 2 February 2004

External links

• Official site