Claire Racine has joined Ramboll from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to be its new UK head of sustainability.
Lora Brill is promoted from head of sustainability for buildings in the UK to global head of buildings sustainability for the Danish company.
Claire Racine was previously with JLL for 10 years, with the last four as head of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Her professional background ius as an architect.
Lora Brill also worked in JLL’s sustainability team for 10 years before joining Orchard Street Investment Management for four years in 2020 as head of ESG and then Ramboll in January 2024.
Racine and Brill will now be working together within Ramboll’s sustainability leadership team, which includes staff from all regions and industry sectors such as healthcare, data centres, high-rise and complex buildings.
Lora Brill said: “One of Ramboll’s great strengths is our global expertise in sustainability – whether it be in circular economy, biodiversity, resilience, or embodied carbon, to name only a few. To meet the global climate and resilience imperative, we need this collective expertise, and I see my role in ensuring the very best innovations and best practices globally are brought to our clients in a meaningful way by our 4,000 technically articulate and passionate colleagues in our global buildings team.
“I am thrilled to be working with Claire. She embodies the passion for design excellence that Ramboll prides itself on and she will be able to challenge and support clients in unlocking commercially relevant pathways for sustainable building design. Claire brings a wealth of strategic and client-side experience to lead our UK colleagues in delivering innovative solutions to industry challenges such as decarbonisation, climate resilience and adaptive reuse of buildings. Together, alongside our ambitious clients and collaborators, we have significant opportunities and indeed the responsibility to deliver the best solutions and outcomes for all.”
Claire Racine said: “I am delighted to be joining Ramboll: its design-led approach is naturally aligned with helping clients deliver sustainable buildings and can guide our discussions from the very beginning of a project. Lora’s organisational, leadership, and strategic expertise is evident in the enabling networks and project systems she has put in place over the past year, and I look forward to building on these to further enhance Ramboll’s sustainability offering.
“I have already been hugely impressed by the technical knowledge of my new colleagues and look forward to working closely with them to deliver client sustainability goals across buildings.”
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