The Mott MacDonald Group is a world-class international management, engineering and development consultancy delivering solutions touching many facets of everyday life – from transport, energy, building, water and the environment to industry, communications, social development, health and education. We’re a wholly independent company, with a turnover of $1.5 billion, 13,000 staff and work in over 120 countries.

Working with architect David Libeskind on the UK's award-winning Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, we devised a series of innovative solutions from ventilation to lighting to complement the building’s novel architecture
Transforming project ideas into reality is our forte. Our holistic approach is rooted in a complete spectrum of skills covering all stages of the development cycle – right from preparing the business case and advising on related issues to designing and implementing the solution and providing ongoing support. Our total service offering incorporates all aspects of project and programme management, management consultancy and construction economics, enhanced by the expertise of Franklin + Andrews.

As a multi-sector professional services provider, our planning, advisory, technical and management activities also encompass the social and institutional dimensions of development, where our capabilities include the expertise of Cambridge Education› and health specialist HLSP Group.

Service to customers

We work in partnership with all our customers, ensuring through our commitment to continuous improvement and the highest level of customer care that we add maximum value on every assignment and exceed their expectations, not merely satisfy their needs.

In Malaysia we were independent checking engineer for Kuala Lumpur's new monorail – the first rapid transit system using monorail technology of any significant length to be built outside Japan Around the world we serve national and local governments, industry, utilities, transport authorities, commercial companies, developers, contractors, banks, funding agencies and non-government organisations.

We take pride in every commission, no matter the size. Our reputation for top quality service applies whether we’re helping to restructure a national industry, plan a $multi-million transport network, deliver healthcare management training, introduce new business practices or restore a wildlife habitat.

Expertise

The immense scope of our business demands a huge variety of expertise, which we’re able to provide in house. Adding to our capabilities in all mainstream technical and management disciplines, we’re skilled in specialist fields as diverse as ergonomics, telematics, information management, cost consultancy, corporate governance, nuclear engineering and organisational reform. Our global resources and depth of experience also mean we’re ideally equipped to meet the changing demands of public private partnerships, PFI and DBFO projects, full privatisation or asset transfers.

Track record

We’ve made our mark on some of the greatest engineering feats in the last 100 years – from London’s underground railway in the early 1900s and Egypt’s Aswan Dam heightening in the 1920s to the Channel Tunnel and Hong Kong’s new airport in the 1990s. We’ve also helped provide over 100 000 MW of private sector power capacity world-wide and new water supplies for vast cities such as Shanghai and Karachi.

Our role on Bangladesh's ‘Strengthening Health and Population for the Less Advantaged’ reform programme is one of many ways in which our technical and management expertise is helping improve healthcare in low and middle income countries Today we’re contributing to an even greater spectrum of development around the globe. Just the briefest cross-section ranges from urban regeneration in the UK, transport systems in Taiwan and river basin management in central Asia to healthcare initiatives in India and Africa, education planning in China and environmental capacity building in Romania.

People

Our success is fuelled by the dedication, enthusiasm and ingenuity of our engineers, environmentalists, planners, economists, cost consultants, project managers, safety experts, IT specialists, educationalists, healthcare advisors, management consultants and more. Our staff include professionals recognised as innovators or world authorities in their fields and we’re often asked to take part in high level missions to developing countries where we’ve helped shape national policies in various sectors. We also make staff available to voluntary organisations such as RedR, Engineers for Disaster Relief.

Brazil’s Ibiritermo power station – named Power Deal of the Year 2003 by Project Finance International – is one of the numerous privately financed projects around the world where we’re providing advisory services to lenders or owners (photograph by Filippo Sormani)

Recognising that to work with the best we must be the best, we actively encourage professional excellence and knowledge management, which is why continuous learning and skills improvement are ingrained in our company culture.

Global presence

With offices across Britain, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, Africa and the Americas, we bring our skills and resources directly to our customers, wherever they or their projects are based. Each office has in-depth knowledge and understanding of local conditions and practices, backed by our global resources – enabling us to offer our services around the clock, around the world.