Environment and society
Developers, owners and operators face evolving user needs and expectations, environmental and climate pressures, and regulatory requirements.
These challenges must be tackled while demonstrating value to taxpayers, customers and investors, controlling operational costs, and addressing statutory requirements for environmental protection, climate sensitivity and social benefits.
Successfully navigating competing pressures is key to securing an essential social and environmental licence to operate, while unlocking shared opportunity.
What can we do for you?
Our global network of climate, environment and social experts will support you and your project teams to achieve:
Sustainability throughout the project lifecycle
Our specialists understand complex sustainability challenges and provide informed expertise to improve the performance of projects. Climate, environmental, and social inputs are as important as technical engineering inputs for delivering sustainable projects and achieving lasting value for clients, society, and our environment. We work with you to improve outcomes at every stage of the project lifecycle — and the earlier we act the greater the benefits that can be achieved.
Shaping the best possible legacy
Our climate, environment, and social experts help clients to identify and deliver the best project outcomes for the long term. With the technical excellence and experience to achieve results that aren't confined to a single silo, we find opportunities for shared benefit — like understanding and mitigating environmental impact, enabling nature recovery, and delivering meaningful social outcomes — all while shaping climate resilient infrastructure assets.
Innovative and cost-effective solutions
We have tools and solutions that improve climate risk management, embed nature-based solutions, enrich biodiversity, manage stakeholder relations, drive social transformation, and provide quantitative insights on community and environmental impacts.
Leuchars Station Army Basing Program, UK. We developed the designs for new and refurbished facilities that converted a former RAF base for use by the British Army.
Nature Positive: The Inside Story
Join Mott MacDonald and leading experts for a new podcast series on the role of nature in infrastructure with leading insights on emerging best practice, career paths and lasting benefits for people and planet.
Shaping sustainable futures with environmental solutions
Setting projects up for success and strengthening ongoing operations requires multidisciplinary approaches and specialisms. We can help you with:
Meet the team
Our experience
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Environment Agency, UKWe work with the Environment Agency to deliver better environmental and societal outcomes at every level. At project level, our work has supported outstanding projects such as the Boston Barrier in Lincolnshire and reinstatement of flood defences in Derbyshire. At strategic level, we are providing advice and expertise to develop the Environment Agency’s mapping and modelling framework for data and evidence driven investment decisions.
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Heathrow Airport, London, UKWe provide extensive and integrated environment and society services for the UK’s largest airport. Recently, we have helped to design and deliver Heathrow Airport’s carbon reduction program, which is driving its progress towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Our support includes Heathrow Airport’s energy transition, operational and embodied carbon, adoption of PAS 2080, future fuels and its behavioral change program.
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Newtown Creek, New York, USAWe helped to clean up Newtown Creek in Brooklyn by installing street-side bioswales – vegetated, shallow, landscaped depressions – to prevent contaminated stormwater run-off entering the combined sewer system. The solution alleviates pressure on New York City’s grey infrastructure, helping to reduce capital costs.
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Severn Trent Water, UKWorking with Severn Trent Water, we’re delivering environment and society focused services at project, programme and organisational level. For projects like Witches Oak Water in Derbyshire, we’ve identified, designed and supported implementation of nature-based solutions for water treatment that result in joined-up beneficial outcomes, including a lower climate footprint, more resilient assets, better biodiversity and positive social outcomes for communities.
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Sydney Metro, AustraliaFor Australia’s biggest public transport project, we’ve maintained our focus on considering social outcomes in all that we do. As one element of this, we’ve delivered diversity and inclusion programs as part of the Engineering Design Assurance Workforce Development & Industry Participation plan. This included supporting diversity of gender, age and culture, First Nations participation, and creating high quality new public spaces that lift and enhance areas at elevated stations.
