High-rise & Complex Buildings
Population growth, urbanisation and climate change are challenges we need to address. High-rise buildings can be a solution to some of the most pressing issues cities are facing today.
Tall buildings are not defined by how high they reach. They are defined by how well they endure, perform, and integrate into the cities around them. At Ramboll, we design for that longer horizon - where the precision of engineering meets the vision of what a city can become.
The most complex challenges in a tall building are rarely structural alone. They live at the intersections: where structure meets MEP, where facades meet building physics, where digital systems meet long-term adaptability. Whether the project demands mass timber, concrete reuse, supertall engineering, or the careful integration of multiple disciplines into a single performing whole, this is where we are most at home.
With more than 300 tall and complex building projects delivered globally, Ramboll's High-rise & Complex Buildings team brings every discipline a tower demands under one roof - and into the same conversation, from day one. That early precision is what separates buildings that merely stand from buildings that last, on skylines trusted worldwide.
EXPLORE OUR FEATURED SERVICES
Engineering and design
Creating a more sustainable future through engineering and design excellence for our clients.
Architecture and landscape
As our cities and populations grow, designing for regenerative systems, decarbonization, healthy living, and resiliency within the urban realm is more crucial than ever.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Kaj 16: innovative timber building
Real Estate
Kaj 16, a multi-storey mixed-use residential and commercial building in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, offers a case study in how extensively we innovate with timber buildings. The building uses hybrid concrete and timber solutions and reuses material's from the site's original structure.
2-3 Finsbury Avenue
Real Estate
2 Finsbury Avenue is a 38 storey, 106,000 sq m (GIA) development in the heart of the City of London, targeting BREEAM Outstanding, Net Zero Carbon and is trailblazing many forward-thinking solutions that are breaking the mould in sustainable office design.
Misk Art Institute, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Real Estate
A new and multi-award-winning artist-centred cultural building will help nurture bright young minds and encourage grass roots artistic production in Saudi Arabia whilst appreciating Saudi and Arab art and enabling international cultural diplomacy and exchange.
Lighthouse in Aarhus is Denmark’s tallest residential building, setting a benchmark for innovative design, reduced CO2 emissions, and energy efficiency, ensuring comfort and environmental benefits for residents in a seaside setting.
FEATURED PROJECTS
What we offer
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Engineering without limits
From supertall towers to structurally complex low-rise, we deliver solutions that are safe, efficient, and genuinely inventive. Our structural engineers combine rigorous analysis with creative thinking to resolve the challenges that define a project's ambition, not just its safety margins.
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Data-driven design
Every design decision we make is informed by evidence. We apply advanced analytics, parametric tools, and performance modelling to optimise structures for efficiency, sustainability, and long-term cost. Our comprehensive benchmark database - built from lessons across the world's most successful tall buildings - ensures every project is grounded in proven excellence, not assumption.
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Computational design and AI
We harness computational design and AI to simulate, stress-test, and optimise complex structures before a single element is built. The result is faster resolution of design challenges, fewer surprises on site, and buildings that perform exactly as intended.
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Globally recognised expertise
Our team has shaped some of the world's most technically demanding tall buildings. That precision of delivery, applied across decades and continents, is what our clients trust and return for - a legacy of internationally recognised, award-winning projects that speaks for itself.
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Integrated by design
Ramboll's High-rise & Complex Buildings team works within a multidisciplinary Buildings platform, bringing structural, MEP, facade, vertical transportation, digital, and sustainability expertise into a single coordinated process. When those disciplines are resolved together from the outset, the vision survives intact - and so does the performance.
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Built for a sustainable future
We are at the forefront of sustainable construction, applying low-carbon structural strategies, mass timber, adaptive reuse, and offsite fabrication to reduce embodied carbon and improve whole-life performance. Every project is an opportunity to raise the bar on what responsible high-rise development looks like.
Contact Ramboll
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company. We have permanent offices in the Americas, the Asia Pacific and Europe.
Find your local Ramboll officeContact our expert
Frank Schwartz
Global Spearhead Director, High-rise & Complex Buildings
Buildings
Riccardo Pedroni
Head of Sales and Business Development, High-rise & Complex Buildings
Buildings