Mott MacDonald

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Mott MacDonald Limited

Type	Private
Industry	Multidisciplinary consultancy
Founded	1902 (1902) (as Mott & Hay)
Headquarters	Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom Offices worldwide.
Key people	Keith Howells, Chairman Richard Willaims, Group Managing Director
Employees	14,000 (2012)
Website	Mott MacDonald Group website

The Mott MacDonald Group is an employee-owned company management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sectors world-wide. The firm employs more than 14,000 staff and works in 140 countries.

History

The firm was created in 1989 through the merger of Mott, Hay and Anderson, a transportation engineering consultancy, and Sir M MacDonald & Partners, a water engineering consultancy.^[1]

Mott, Hay & Anderson

On 30th July 1902 Basil Mott and David Hay entered into partnership under the name Mott & Hay. Both engineers had worked together since 1888 on the City and South London Railway under Sir Benjamin Baker and James Henry Greathead. They were joined by David Anderson in 1920.

Mott, Hay & Anderson's traditions owe much to its founders' two mentors. Greathead is renowned as the foremost soft ground tunneller of the time, while Baker is remembered particularly for London's District Railway, the Forth Railway Bridge and the first Aswan Dam - which coincidentally was heightened between 1926 and 1933 by Sir M MacDonald & Partners.

Sir M MacDonald & Partners

The existence of Sir M MacDonald & Partners directly relates to affairs in Egypt from 1890 to 1930 and in particular to the Aswan Dam. The greatest achievements of this period included the construction and first heightening of the Aswan Dam which opened on 15th May 1921. Sir Murdoch MacDonald in his capacity as the Advisor, Ministry of Public Works, was closely associated with the development and first heightening of the Aswan scheme which marked the start of a long association with hydroelectric power development. Sir Murdoch retired from the Egyptian Government Service in June 1921 and returned to Britain where, aged 55 years, he immediately entered into partnership with Archibald MacCorquodale.

PH East (who had also been an engineer in the Egyptian Government Service from 1907 to 1926) and OL Prowde joined Sir Murdoch MacDonald in a partnership in January 1927, marking the start of a new era. The name of the company was changed to Sir M Macdonald & Partners and major new work started including the second heightening of the Aswan Dam, which continued through the design and construction stages to 1933.

Post-merger

The firm has expanded over the years through the acquisition of Husband and Company, James Williamson & Partners, Ewbank Preece (power & telecommunications specialists) in 1994, Cambridge Education Associates (education consultants) in 2000, Dalal Consultants (an Indian-based firm) in 2001, Franklin + Andrews (cost consultants) in 2002 and HLSP (a health practice) in 2003.^[1]

In 2010, Mott MacDonald acquired the Australian consulting engineers firm, Hughes Trueman.

Operations

Today Mott MacDonald has over 14,000 staff located in around 150 offices, working on projects around the world.^[2] Mott MacDonald is engaged in public and private sector development across a wide range of markets, including:

• Buildings
• Communications
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Industry
• International development
• Oil and gas
• Power
• Transport
• Urban development
• Water

Projects

The Liverpool Entrance of the Queensway Tunnel

Some of the Group’s historical projects include:

• Blackfriars Bridge, UK
• Britannia Bridge, UK, post-fire reconstruction (Husband and Company)
• Mersey Tunnel, UK
• Severn and Forth Road Bridges, UK
• Kuala Lepar Bridge, Malaysia
• Surabaya-Malang highway, East Java
• Channel Tunnel, UK
• Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong
• Twickenham Rugby Stadium, UK (London)
• Dinorwig Power Station

Construction of the new Wembley, looking east, taken January 2006

Other key projects include:

• A3 Hindhead Bypass, UK
• AusAID, Australia
• Edgbaston Cricket Ground, UK
• Heathrow Terminal 5, UK
• Hunstanton Coastal Monitoring, UK
• Korat 1 Solar Photovoltaic Plant, Thailand
• London’s Crossrail
• Macau City of Dreams
• Manchester Civil Justice Centre, UK
• Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
• Mbombela Stadium, South Africa
• Oakland Bay Bridge, USA
• Princess Amalia Wind Farm, Offshore, the Netherlands
• Quito International Airport, Ecuador
• Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy, Asia
• Road Upgrading, Uganda
• SMILE Communications Programme, South Africa
• Snow Leopard Protection, Siberia and Mongolia
• Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel, Malaysia
• Victoria Station Upgrade, UK
• Water Resource Demand Management, China
• Wembley Stadium, UK

Latest awards

Highlights of Mott MacDonald's recent award successes:

• Mott MacDonald won 120 Awards internationally in 2010^[3]
• ACE Engineering Excellence Awards 2011 – The corrosion treatment system LATreat – developed and patented by Mott MacDonald and BAC Corrosion Control – won the Research, Studies and Consulting Award
• British Expertise Awards 2011 – Mott MacDonald had a hat trick of wins (Delhi Metro Phase II was named Major Project of the Year, the company’s work in Iraq won the Emerging Market Award and the LATreatTM corrosion protection system won the Innovation Award)
• Building Awards 2011 – Engineering Consultant of the Year
• Construction News Awards 2011 – Cost consultancy, Franklin + Andrews, named Best QS Firm of the Year
• NCE International Tunnelling Awards 2011 – Tunnel Design Firm of the Year
• UK's Sunday Times Best Big Companies 2011 – Mott MacDonald ranked 13th in the Top 25 Best Big Companies to Work For Survey
• Association for Project Management (APM) Awards 2010 – Project Management Company of the Year
• Public Private Finance Awards 2010 – Mott MacDonald named Best Technical Adviser Award for the fifth time in six years

References

Further reading

• Newman Neame Ltd. (1965), Mott, Hay & Anderson, Consulting Civil Engineers
• Mott MacDonald (2002), One hundred years of transportation

External links

• Mott MacDonald Group
• Cambridge Education
• HLSP
• HLSP Institute
• Franklin+Andrews

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