Sustainability

As part of the Joint Rivers management programme, which brings together seven former Soviet Union states, we held an art competition for local school children living in the Seversky Donets basin, encouraging them to consider environmental concerns

At Mott MacDonald our approach to sustainability involves embracing opportunities and managing risks derived from economic, environmental and social development – whether investing in ethical pension funds or helping a customer meet recycling targets.

• As a responsible corporate citizen, employer and consultant, Mott MacDonald takes sustainability very seriously and we have integrated sustainable practice into our culture through our values, projects and practices.
• We continuously seek solutions that are creative, practical and efficient with a net positive social, environmental and economic impact. Our wealth of multi-sector experts makes us an ideal breeding ground for innovative solutions.
• We set out to be a proactive source of best practice on sustainability from day one, helping our customers, communities and supply chains to incorporate sustainability concepts.

We aim to follow the definition of sustainability laid down in the Brundtland report - "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" and achieve a beneficial impact on people's lives through the projects we help deliver. As a result, we also seek to ensure that our solutions are implemented and managed in a manner that will not adversely impact on the natural environment.

The very nature of our work means that improving the living standards of local communities and reducing impacts on the environment are high on the project agenda across our whole business spectrum. For example our health and education specialists are helping reform and develop services in many low and middle income countries by building partnerships at all levels of government and society, while our transport experts look at new models for achieving sustainable highway maintenance services.

We’re committed to working in partnership with our customers, communities and supply chains to incorporate sustainable design, implementation and operation solutions into their projects and day to day operations - whether it's providing access to cutting-edge renewable energy technologies or delivering training programmes for healthcare managers. Supporting our approach to corporate responsibility, our designs, advice, skills and expertise incorporate sustainable thinking from the outset and we seek solutions that are creative, practical, efficient and have a reduced impact on the environment.

We have a dedicated team of corporate sustainability experts who provide high value, innovative business consultancy in all aspects of corporate responsibility, citizenship and sustainable development. We’ve also developed a project sustainability tool, QUEST, which uses key performance indicators drawn from a wide range of published sources including the UK government's 'Quality of Life Counts' to provide a quantitative measure of project sustainability based on the principle of the 'triple bottom line' of environment, society and economics.

As well as helping our customers with their sustainable development, we also assess our own operations and continue to build on our sustainable approach to business – which supports our use of the EFQM Excellence Model and is driving ISO 14001 accreditation progressively across Mott MacDonald. Many offices have Local Environment Practice Plans supporting activities ranging from walking to work, reducing the consumption of energy, water and paper and protecting the environment through to other initiatives such as wildlife clubs.