Gifford (company)
# Gifford (company)

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. 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:

* 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
