Mott MacDonald

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Mott MacDonald
Type Employee-owned corporation
Founded as Mott & Hay (1902)
as Mott MacDonald Group (1989)
Headquarters head office: Croydon
Industry Multidisciplinary consultancy
Revenue US$1.2 billion GBP (2007)
Employees 12,000 (2007)
Website Mott MacDonald Group website

The Mott MacDonald Group was formed in 1989 when Mott, Hay and Anderson, renowned for its contribution to transportation engineering, merged with Sir M MacDonald & Partners, distinguished by a long tradition of water-related projects. This union was the first step in providing an all-inclusive engineering, management and development consultancy on a global scale.

Today the firm of Mott MacDonald has over 12,000 staff operational across the globe, working in an array of markets from buildings and transportation to health and education.

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[edit] Founders

[edit] Mott, Hay & Anderson

Engineers Basil Mott and David Hay entered into partnership under the name Mott & Hay on 30 July 1902 after having worked together since 1888 on the City & South London Railway. They employed David Anderson as a resident engineer then promoted him to partner in 1921 after he returned from army service.

The company's traditions owe much to Mott and Hay’s two mentors: J H Greathead is renowned as the foremost soft ground tunneller of the time, while Sir Benjamin Baker is remembered particularly for London’s District Railway, the Forth Railway Bridge and the Aswan Dam, which, in one of those extraordinary coincidences of history, was heightened between 1926 and 1933 by Sir M MacDonald and Partners.

[edit] 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. One of the greatest achievements of this period included the construction and first heightening of the Aswan Dam, which opened in 1921.

Following this success Sir Murdoch MacDonald retired from his position as Advisor to Egypt’s Ministry of Public Works, and established a partnership with Archibald MacCorquodale in Britain. Six years later Sir Murdoch joined PH East (who had also been an engineer in the Egyptian Government Service) and OL Prowde in a partnership marking the start of a new era: the company name changed to Sir M MacDonald & Partners and major new work started including the second heightening of the Aswan Dam.

[edit] Ewbank Preece

Ewbank Preece joined Mott MacDonald in 1994 enabling the Group to branch into power and telecommunications. Its pedigree began when Preece Cardew & Rider was founded in 1893 by Arthur Henry Preece and later joined by his father Sir William Preece, engineer in chief to the General Post Office, Major Phillip Cardew, electrical advisor to the Board of Trade, and in 1915, by electrical engineer John Hall Rider.

Ewbank & Partners Limited was founded in 1946 by Charles Henry Preston Ewbank and like-minded colleagues from Edmundsons at the time of nationalisation of the UK electricity supply industry.

Both companies merged in 1983 to form Ewbank Preece, one of the UK’s leading consultancies in power generation, transmission and distribution, desalination and telecommunications.

[edit] Education – Cambridge Education

In 1985 Sir M MacDonald & Partners, in partnership with the University of Cambridge, formed Cambridge Education Consultants (CEC) with the aim to provide quality education consultancy services in support of educational development world-wide.

For many years CEC had enjoyed close links with Cambridge Education Associates (CEA) collaborating on many projects – increasingly in the UK where CEA was the largest contractor for Ofsted inspections and the leading provider of consultancy and interim management for local education authorities and schools. Marking the start of a new era CEA formally joined the Group in 2000 and the education business is now known as Cambridge Education.

[edit] Health – HLSP

In 2003 Mott MacDonald joined HLSP, an international organisation providing technical assistance, consulting and project management focused on improving world health.

HLSP, established in 1985, works for governments, international agencies and non-government organisations including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria. Its main areas of expertise include organisational reform and strengthening, sector financing and services planning, costing and delivery, communicable disease control, drugs management programmes, clinical effectiveness and sexual health strategies including responses to HIV and AIDS.

Additionally, HLSP manages the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) resource centre focusing on policy analysis and development, education and knowledge management.

[edit] Not-for-profit arms

[edit] Cambridge Education Foundation

Cambridge Education Foundation is Mott MacDonald’s not-for-profit arm set up to develop best practice and support teachers in building their confidence, knowledge and skills about global development issues. This is achieved by identifying and meeting the training and support needs of teachers, and formal recognition of their success is gained through the accreditation of professional development. As a consortium partner of the Global School Partnership, the Foundation’s role includes promoting the globalisation of curricula and encouraging opportunities for overseas teachers equivalent to those available to teachers in the UK.

School partnerships with a global dimension are an effective means of raising awareness of development issues, changing attitudes and encouraging the involvement of young people in the UK. The Global School Partnership also supports UK schools in developing sustainable partnerships with schools in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America.

Promoting further international links, the Cambridge Education Foundation is also a member of BUILD (Building Understanding through International Links for Development), which has launched an all-party parliamentary group to raise political awareness of the power of community partnerships.

[edit] HLSP Institute

The HLSP Institute is part of Mott MacDonald’s healthcare consultancy. It was formed in 2005 to enhance the ability of HLSP to inform international debate and influence policy on global health issues and national health systems. It assesses new and emerging international health and development issues and provides policy analysis, training and applied research on issues relevant to better development practice and attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

The internationally recognised experience and expertise of HLSP in health systems and health, HIV and AIDS policy and practice is shared through the Institute in order to address how best to strengthen national responses to HIV and AIDS. The Institute is committed to helping integrate prevention, treatment and care into broader health systems development and supports coordination of responses across sectors and funding sources.

Helping to enhance the knowledge base relating to the management and effectiveness of international aid is another major concern of the HLSP Institute. Its strengths in this area are based on rigorous policy analysis and country-based research alongside agencies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS the joint United Nations programme on HIV and AIDS, and the Department for International Development(DFID).

[edit] Cost consultancy – Franklin + Andrews

Cost consultant Franklin + Andrews joined the Group in 2002 to enable the Group to specialise in all facets of planning, design and management within the building, transport, utility and energy sectors.

Founded in 1866, Franklin + Andrews is the longest-standing company to join the Group and brought consultancy skills in contracting strategy, supply chain management, construction cost data, benchmarking, process mapping and contract advisory services.

[edit] North America – Hatch Mott MacDonald

To help serve North America’s booming transportation market the Group and Canada’s Hatch Associates established a joint venture company in 1996 called Hatch Mott MacDonald. This followed a long affiliation between the two which began when working together on Toronto’s subway in the 1950s.

In 2001 Hatch Mott MacDonald acquired Killam Group, an infrastructure and consulting engineering firms in eastern USA, to broaden service offering in the water and environmental sectors.

Since then Hatch Mott MacDonald has expanded its resources and geographical presence to reach 1,500 staff and offices in over 50 cities across North America.

[edit] India

The Group’s business in India has grown to become one of the country’s largest management and engineering consultancies since its formation in 1970 under the name Dalal Consultants.

Firstly, the company provided pre-investment advisory services to private investors in the industrial sector and to government owned industrial development corporations. After 20 strong years Dalal diversified its activities into water resources management, transportation and integrated infrastructure development once the private sector opened up.

Dalal – now known as Mott MacDonald – joined the Group in 2001 to expand industrial, multi-disciplinary infrastructure and social sector capabilities in India’s vast market.

[edit] Projects

The briefest cross-section ranges from urban regeneration in the UK, river basin management in central Asia, transport systems in Taiwan and the USA to healthcare initiatives in India and Africa, education planning in China, tourism and hospitality "in all the major Indian states"[1] and environmental capacity building in Romania.

Some of the Group’s historical projects include:

Other key projects include:

[edit] Latest Awards

  • UK's Sunday Times Top 20 Best Big Companies 2007 – Mott MacDonald was ranked as the 11th Best Big Company to Work For
  • The Sunday Times KPMG Top Track 100 – Mott MacDonald was ranked 61st place in the Top Track 100, Britain’s 100 biggest private companies recorded for 2007
  • Public Private Finance Awards 2007 – Best Technical Advisor
  • 2007 BE Awards of Excellence – Awarded for Civil Engineering Visualization and Simulation
  • British Expertise Awards 2006 – Joint Large Consultancy Firm of the year
  • Civic Trust Awards 2006 – Civic Trust Award
  • Energy Institute’s International Awards 2006 – International Platinum Award
  • QS News Awards 2006 – Best Specialist M&E Cost Consultant Award

[edit] Sources

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tourism and hospitality. Mott MacDonald website. Mott MacDonald Group Limited. Retrieved on 2008-03-04.

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