Environmental engineering

We designed Northern Ireland’s ecos environmental centre – winner of a Civic Trust Sustainability Award – to meet up to two thirds of its energy demand from renewable sources, use natural ventilation wherever possible and utilise on-site reedbeds for sewage treatmentMott MacDonald’s mission to provide customer satis-faction through technical excellence applies equally to delivering environmental solutions.

We are therefore proud of our customers’ recognition that we achieve environmental goals by integrating engineering design and environmental management in a cost-effective manner, whether in the rapid reclamation and regeneration of a large area of east Manchester before the Commonwealth Games, or in the design of award-winning ‘green’ buildings such as the ecos environmental centre in Northern Ireland.

Pollution control is at the heart of much of our environmental business – from retro-fits of flue-gas desulphurisation systems for power stations to wastewater treatment plants that minimise nutrient releases into water courses, from solid waste handling facilities and landfill sites to sustainable urban drainage systems in new urban developments.

We’re also on hand to help clean up the consequences of past poor practices and pollution incidents, often as part of urban regeneration projects designed to make better use of brownfield land. Our pragmatic approach comes to the fore here, as we make full use of technical analysis and risk assessment to minimise the amount of soil or groundwater to be treated. Often this means that advanced techniques, such as on-site bioremediation, can be employed rather than expensive ‘dig and dump’.

Our preferred choice throughout our work is to protect the environ-ment by design. For this reason, we have taken a lead in the development of renewable sources of energy, such as wind farms, wave power systems, ground-source heating and cooling and biomass power stations. We also seek to ‘design out’ the consumption of energy and resources in low-energy buildings and to minimise the production of waste in construction.

Services

Brownfield and contaminated land reclamation
Clean production
Construction environmental management
Green building design
Landfill engineering and restoration
Landscape design and maintenance
Pollution control
Recreational facility development
Renewable energy
Site investigation
Solid waste engineering
Waste recycling systems