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Gifford (company)

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Revenue
  
£41.7 million (2007)

Net income
  
£3.9 million (2007)

Founder
  
Edwin Gifford

Number of employees
  
657

Operating income
  
£4.5 million (2007)

Website
  
Ramboll Group

Founded
  
1951

Type of business
  
LLP

Gifford (company)

Industry
  
Construction and business services

Key people
  
Gordon Clark, (Chairman) Steve Canadine, (Chief Executive)

Headquarters
  
Southampton, United Kingdom

Gifford is part of the Ramboll Group, providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and the environment.

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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. It won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2002.

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:

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

    • References

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