Global environment and health consultancy Ramboll Environ has appointed Kerttu Ots as a senior landscape architect in its environmental planning practice area, based in the company’s Edinburgh office.

A Chartered landscape architect, Kerttu has nine years’ consultancy experience working on a wide range of landscape design projects, urban realm, masterplanning, conservation and restoration proposals, as well as preparing landscape and visual impact assessments (LVIA) for energy, minerals, and waste developments. Her experience includes wind farms, anaerobic digesters, grid infrastructure and waste treatment plants. She has also produced townscape characterisations and residential visual amenity assessments.

At Ramboll Environ, Kerttu will work part of a close team that focusses on all aspects of landscape work, ranging from the preparation of technical reports to design production and implementation, and provision of expert witness testimony. She will also be responsible for day-to-day project management and contribute to the landscape team’s programme of professional development and innovation.

Bob Bainsfair, manager at Ramboll Environ and head of its UK landscape architecture team, said: “Kerttu’s breadth of experience and proven technical and commercial abilities across a range of sectors represents a considerable asset to Ramboll Environ’s developing landscape architecture practice. Consultancies and developers in all sectors are undergoing significant challenges as a result of changes to regulatory and commercial environment, but our ability to anticipate and respond creatively to these pressures to meet or exceed client expectations is critical. Kerttu will play an important role in this approach.”

Kerttu has a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh University and is proficient in Russian and Estonian as well as English.