Latest awards

Our projects triumphed in the environmental impact and innovation categories. British Expertise is the leading private sector organisation for the promotion of professional services from the UK. Their awards recognise excellence in the design, planning, manage-ment and construction of overseas projects.

The Environmental Impact Award was made for Euroconsult Mott MacDonald’s pioneering work in restoring biodiversity to the Eurasian Steppe. Projects and stakeholder engagement are helping to reverse erosion and halt urban migration.

Design and project management during delivery of two world-first barge-mounted desalination plants scooped the British Expertise Innovation Award. The plants were first put into use off the Saudi Arabian coast to supplement supplies in the city of Jeddah.

Award won

Best for Innovative Projects

Many awards celebrate the work of individuals and projects but it is rare to find any that recognise excellence in the way that companies operate.

Recognising this, NCE launched the Employer Review Awards to redress the balance by identifying and celebrating the companies that are the best in the industry in areas of the highest importance to engineers.

The judges decided that Mott MacDonald was the “stand-out winner”. They also praised our portfolio for including “a host of truly world-class, innovative projects”. The NCE wrote that “Mott MacDonald's extraordinary level of technical innovation runs right through the business”.

Award won

Sustainability Award

PROJECT
Vulcan House

The new Sheffield headquarters for the UK Border Agency was honoured at the inaugural Celebrating Construction in Sheffield Awards ceremony.

CCIS is a showcase for the professionalism, excellence and innovation at the heart of Sheffield's construction community. The awards, organised by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), reflect the dynamic nature of the construction business and highlight the broad spectrum of construction excellence being delivered in Sheffield.

Our director Don Moore has been honoured with this supreme award for his contribution to water resource management projects in China. The Chinese government awards foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to China’s economic and social progress. The award was presented at a special ceremony attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing on 29 September 2008.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

This award recognises those who have shown the greatest commitment to policies and practices that measure and deliver environmental and social benefits, over and above regulator requirements, in response to the expectations of stakeholders and society.

At the gala dinner in Lords Cricket Ground we were also shortlisted in the People Involvement and Development category, where the judges were ‘impressed with the depth of commitment towards developing professional skills and the use of technology to build corporate values and culture’.

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Best Technical Adviser

Mott MacDonald has won this prominent award for the third time in four years.

The Public Private Finance Awards is the largest and most prestigious event in the public private partnerships industry. Around 1,200 key industry figures attended the ceremony to celebrate successful project delivery and innovation.

In May, we walked away with a spectacular four accolades following the awards ceremony in Newcastle.

Our work for the Scottish Government in producing the guidelines ‘School Design: Optimising the Internal Environment’ won the CIBSE Building Services Best Practice Award, while the Shiremoor Flood Relief Project scooped three Highly Commended accolades.

Award won

Project of the Year 2008

PROJECT
Manchester Civil Justice Centre

The shortlisted projects in this category represented the cream of the construction crop for 2007, and Manchester Civil Justice Centre's victory in this foremost competition is a major achieve-ment for our project team.

Our role
Mott MacDonald provided complete civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, façade and fire engineering design services.

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Future Leader – Engineering category

Mott MacDonald’s Alistair Hitchcock outshone the competition to win the engineering category of the Construction’s Future Leaders Awards on 28 March 2008.

The contest saw a field of over 400 entrants from the engineering, contracting, architecture and quantity surveying professions whittled down to ten in each category. Alistair was one of five of our staff to power through two knock-out rounds to make the shortlist of ten finalists in the engineering category.

Mott MacDonald is International Consultant of the Year 2008

The Group was recognised for being a truly global firm. In particular, we were noted for our record global growth, which in 2007 reached 20% for the second consecutive year.

Our strategic development into target geographic and sectoral markets, facilitated by effective profile-raising and attracting talented professionals through targeted recruitment campaigns, made us the stand-out contender in the category. Flexibility in ourworking environment was also praised.

Mott MacDonald has been awarded 8th place in the Best Big Companies to Work For survey.

The survey attracted a record number of entries with 868 companies taking part.

The process involved employees being asked for their views on working at Mott MacDonald. In addition, our employment policies, procedures and critical performance statistics were evaluated to rate in terms of performance, opportunities and work-life balance.