Environmental, engineering and sustainability consultancy Ramboll has made two key appointments in its buildings sustainability team.

Lora Brill has been promoted to global head of sustainability for buildings and Ramboll has recruited Claire Racine as UK head of sustainability for buildings.

Racine, who joins Ramboll from JLL where she was Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy, has more than two decades of experience working across the built environment with a particular focus on sustainability and passion for regenerative thinking. She has also worked as a practicing architect.

Meanwhile, Brill has moved into a global role and will be spearheading sustainability initiatives that support the global effort to decarbonise the built environment.

By working with Ramboll’s 4,000-strong global buildings experts, she will be driving best practice and innovation, not just in Ramboll, but the wider industry.

Brill and Racine will also be working closely together within Ramboll’s Sustainability Leadership Team, which includes representatives from all geographies and key sectors such as healthcare, data centres, high-rise and complex buildings.

This team focuses on embedding sustainability where it has the greatest impact, while directly addressing the commercial realities of business models.

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.”

Racine added: “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.”