Gavin White

Director, and schools lead

Contact Gavin White

T: +44 7584 632 555

He has led projects of all types, from multi-million pound new build developments to refurbishment of historic buildings. Gavin has designed in all mainstream construction materials, with particular expertise in timber, he leads Ramboll's pioneering work in timber engineering. He has managed and advised on the construction of over 50 timber buildings ranging from museums to conference centres. He has written papers and presented internationally on the subject.

Gavin also has responsibility for the Ramboll Schools Sector, coordinating and facilitating our activities across Ramboll UK. Gavin has worked on over 20 school projects of varying size and complexity and in 2014 was awarded the NCE/ACE Young Consultant of the Year.

Gavin joined Ramboll in 2002 and works in our building structures team. In 2015, Gavin became a Director and now leads our Cambridge Office.

Recent projects

William Perkin High School

Containing 3,800 cubic metres of timber, the William Perkin High School is the largest cross laminated timber building in the UK.

Dalston Works completed - image Daniel Shearing

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Dalston Works

Dalston Works is the largest Cross Laminated Timber project globally. Weighing just one fifth of a comparable concrete structure, it accommodates 10 storeys above a planned Crossrail route.

Open Academy, Norwich

At more than three times the size of its nearest rival, also engineered by Ramboll, the new-build Open Academy in Norwich was the largest cross-laminated timber panel structure in the country on completion. It uses more than 3,600 cu m of timber, is three storeys high...