This is great news because this workflow aligns perfectly with CityEngine’s geodesign ability. Rambøll envision making urban planning easier and faster with a workflow going from sketches to design to reporting of urban environments and iterating through different design scenarios to compare and choose the best scenario for further design. Kenneth Lindhardt GIS Consultant at Rambøll Urban planning Let’s take a closer look at these three different areas. They all have different workflows, competences and necessary outputs. Hooray for CityEngine!Ĭurrently, CityEngine is being used in three different main areas – Urban Planning, Transportation and Visuals. I learnt that the main purpose of CityEngine use within Rambøll, is to create smarter and more intelligent 3D content within a short timeframe, and that this is something that they are not able to do with other tools. So instead of burying myself deep in the information on the Interwebs, I went straight to the source and spoke to Kenneth Lindhardt at Rambøll. Great question and something I wanted to know the answer to as well. “But what has all this got to do with CityEngine”, I hear you ask. I found out that Rambøll have been involved in a plethora of projects all over the globe like the Tate Modern extension or the largest advanced wastewater treatment plant in Washington DC. I put on my Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and dug a little deeper.

This google search showed me that this company is pretty big and well established across a multitude of disciplines. Rambøll works across the following markets: Buildings, Transport, Water, Environment & Health, Energy and Management Consulting. Rambøll are present in 35 countries and combine local experience with a global knowledge-base, constantly striving to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our clients, end-users, and society at large. Rambøll employs 16,500 people globally and has especially strong representation in the Nordics, UK, North America, Continental Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Rambøll is a leading engineering, architecture and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. I started off with the obligatory google search which spat the following sentences back at me:

I watched it in awe and it inspired me to find out more about Rambøll.

Recently, this beautiful video from Rambøll featuring their CityEngine work landed on my lap…

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