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MOTT MACDONALD STAFF NEWS

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JULY 2014

Meet the expert: Jack Meldrum, dams and barrages technical director, EUNA 8

Project Manager of the Year Award showcasing 2014s top talent 2

Progress Respect Integrity Drive Excellence

2014 Sustainability Week its global, its ours! 15

UK government ministers visit award-winning Delhi Airport

Fourth annual BIM: Research to Reality event

A+ for Bangladesh education programme

GROUP NEWS

Project Manager of the Year Award 2014 WinnersThis years finalists and winners in the

Project Manager of the Year Award

continue to demonstrate our powerful

project management capability.

As always it was a tough decision to select

winners. All the entrants demonstrated the

key qualities of project management strong

leadership, excellent organisation, effective

relationship building, intelligent use of IT, good

communication and unrelenting vigilance

along with pride in and sheer enthusiasm for

their projects.

WINNERS

Open category

David Satchell Wynn Palace, Macau

David based himself and his team of six

resident engineers on site, which was hugely

appreciated by the client. The latest suite of

BIM tools was used for stakeholder, team and

resource management. BIM was also used for

co-ordination of the 10 offices around the

globe that collaborated on the project.

Schedule and cost were expertly controlled,

enabling the client to adjust the project scope

and remain within budget. News of the teams

great performance travelled far, with the

contractor keen to work with us in the MESA

region as well as APNA.

Portfolio category

Ganesh Bhat Occidental in Oman

Successful long-term management of the

framework with Occidental in Oman,

originally bid on a highly competitive basis

when workload was low, represented a

combination of both management skills and

determination. Ganesh introduced significant

process improvements across many areas

into both the clients organisation and our

own to enable effective planning and control

of over 130 projects, with up to 20 running

concurrently. With a new three year framework

contract now secured and the doors opened

to the Occidental organisation globally, the

impact of Ganeshs contribution cannot be

underestimated.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Open category

Ajay Chaudhary Chaglla Hydroelectric

project, Peru

The judges were very impressed with how

Ajays team identified and managed risks on

this engineering, procurement and construction

project, which was the foundation to its

success. With many plaudits earned by Ajay

and his team from the client, the project was

awarded Power Deal of the Year 2013 at the

Infrastructure Journal Awards in London and

Latin American Power Deal of the Year 2013

at the Project Finance Magazine Awards in New

York City. We continue to develop relations with

contractor Odebrecht across the Group as a

consequence of such a successful project.

FINALISTS

David Satchell APNA Open category

Ajay Chaudhary EUNA Open category

Richard Cusworth EUNA Portfolio

category

Peter Proctor HMM Open category

Andy Hares HMM Portfolio category

Ganesh Bhat MESA Portfolio category

JUDGES

The judges this year were chosen from each

region:

Douglas Wilson EUNA (Programme and

Commercial Management) Open Chairman

Tim Evans MESA (Middle East)

John Mortimer APNA (Australia and

New Zealand)

Frank Frandina NASA (HMM East)

The panel who were in four different locations

used Lync to view participants presentations

and ask them questions.

Copies of all winning papers will be loaded

onto the Professional Excellence site.

* Dave Phillips, London, UK

Dhaka team moves office Our 40-strong Bangladesh team led

by country representative Farook

Chowdhury recently moved into a

brand new office building in Dhaka.

Located at a central location with a lake

view, the 450sq m space is neatly divided into

spacious office rooms, cubicles, a conference

room and modern kitchen facilities. The team

is working on a growing portfolio of water

management, agriculture, infrastructure,

education and private sector development

projects funded by the Asian Development

Bank, European Union and the Embassy of

the Kingdom of Netherlands. The new office

is already teeming with activities.

* Naim Zakaria, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Staff in their new office in Dhaka

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GROUP NEWS

Rio 2016 and Toronto 2015

In conjunction with our Brazilian partners

Concremat, and London-based event

contractors, ES Global, our Toronto office,

in conjunction with our Rio office (Habtec

Mott MacDonald) has been successful

in securing the engineering role for the

overlay for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

The role entails venue surveys, gap

analysis, concept design and procurement

for energy related services (electrical, water,

sewerage). While primarily about the electrical

requirements, the project also includes

supplementary structures such as support

systems, barriers, tribunes, lighting, signage

and the like. The project includes around

45 venues in various stages of completion.

In addition we have also secured the

temporary lighting overlay for the Toronto

2015 Pan American Games, following our

completion of the electrical overlay gap

analysis. This will involve field surveys, gap

analysis, assessment of rigging requirements,

and the production of procurement documents.

The Toronto 2015 Shooting Ranges have

been successfully tendered and construction

is due to start mid-July 2014. We are prime

consultant, and have used the services of

Berlin-based Magma, and local firm WZMH

to provide the architectural services.

* Andrea Musina, Toronto, Canada

Artists impression of the Toronto 2015 Shooting Ranges

From left: Former UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs William Hague, Chancellor of the Exchequer George

Osborne and India MD Mike Barker

UK government ministers visit award-winning Delhi Airport On a recent two day visit to India, UK

Chancellor of the Exchequer George

Osborne and the then Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs William Hague took a

tour of the air traffic control (ATC) tower

at the Indira Gandhi International Airport

(IGIA), New Delhi.

The airport, which won the prestigious

International Projects Award at the British

Construction Industry Association Awards in

2010, was chosen to highlight the involvement

of UK companies in major Indian projects.

Our aviation team, in conjunction with

Delhi office, was lead technical advisor on the

1bn upgrade to IGIA, delivering Asias longest

runway and new terminal complex.

We provided:

The master plan

Concept and preliminary designs

Environmental impact management

Traffic forecasting for the 30 year life

of the concession

Tender assistance

The tour was led by concessionaire GMR with

managing director of our India business Mike

Barker. We visited the top of the tower, 100m

above the airport. It is not operational yet but

the structure is complete. Mike showed the

ministers how the airport will evolve to its final

configuration in 2036, pointing out portions of

the project that opened in spring 2010, for the

Commonwealth Games, held in Delhi.

The tour was filmed by the BBC. Mike was

interviewed by BBC economics editor Robert

Peston. The visit was a success and further

strengthens our profile in India.

* Paramita Maitra, Bangalore, India



GROUP NEWS

Fourth annual BIM: Research to Reality eventInternal and external BIM experts came

together this month at Londons Royal

College of Physicians to examine how

BIM contributes toward solving some

of the industrys biggest challenges:

finding cost efficiencies, meeting skills

challenges, working collaboratively

within contracts and making best

possible use of technology.

The fourth annual BIM: Research to

Reality event on 8 July saw leading industry

organisations the Green Construction Board,

Anglian Water, Laing ORourke and London

South Bank University represented alongside

a selection of Mott MacDonald and Hatch Mott

MacDonald experts.

Group chairman Keith Howells introduced

the event by remarking that BIM is increasingly

essential for business survival, and that the

people behind BIM are the real driving force

in delivering beneficial outcomes.

Mott MacDonald Group BIM champion Richard

Shennan provided big-picture context and

argued that BIM has a major role to play in

facilitating the global switch to a low carbon

economy. BIM highlights new ways to better

solve old problems, he said.

Although the costs of transitioning to BIM

can be steep, when BIM is fully implemented

it can produce impressive savings as has

been demonstrated by a number of Mott

MacDonald projects, said Mott MacDonald

buildings director James Middling.

Individuals and companies are seemingly

sceptical about what they can gain from

BIM, said Mott MacDonald learning and

development consultant and Class of Your

Own business development director Carole

Teacher. We must therefore work much harder

at articulating the benefits, so that people can

adopt, adapt and learn the new skills that are

essential for level 2 and 3 BIM. This is because

the human mind is hard wired to perceive the

loss arising from change twice as keenly as

the gains.

Mott MacDonald projects director Barry

Trebes considered various procurement

arrangements that could help to provide

the best possible framework for BIM success,

placing emphasis on collaborative working and

clarity from clients on the benefits they want to

realise from BIM.

Data interoperability, handover and volume

are the three biggest current challenges to BIM

adoption explained Hatch Mott MacDonald

senior associate Cory Dippold. Hardware,

storage and communications networks must

leapfrog forward to enable the next stages of

BIM development, he said.

Green Construction Board Infrastructure

Working Group member and Anglian Water

carbon manager David Riley spoke about

the global carbon challenge, describing the

scale of what must be achieved under UK

government targets. He suggested ways in

which BIM could contribute toward meeting

these targets by enabling design and

contribution optimisation.

BIM is a key enabler of design for

manufacture and assembly, said Laing

ORourke Engineering Excellence Group

head of civils John Roberts. He outlined

some of the techniques Laing ORourke has

employed to create a unified organisation-

wide approach and the cost, time and benefits

arising from this.

An output document with full summaries

of each presentation will shortly be published

on MiMi.

* Jo Stimpson, Croydon, UK

Group BIM champion Richard Shennan Group chairman Keith Howells

BIM experts at the fourth annual BIM: Research to Reality event



Prestigious invitation to take part in China engineering eventThe International Conference on

Engineering, Science and Technology

was held in Beijing from 2-3 June.

This is a major event sponsored by

United Nations Educational, Scientific

& Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the

International Council of Academies of

Engineering & Technological Sciences

(CAETS), and the Chinese Academy of

Engineering (CAE).

We have a continuing collaboration with

CAE and recently signed a letter of intent for

strategic co-operation to study long undersea

railway tunnels being proposed for China. As a

result, Transportation units Gareth Mainwaring

was invited to act as co-chairman for one of

the parallel sessions of the conference Civil

Engineering of the Future of Humankind.

Mott MacDonald was one of very few

consultants invited to this international event,

It is hoped that our relationship with CAE and

the China Railway Engineering Corporation

will help us secure further involvement in

development of Chinas high speed rail

network, where we are already engaged

on a number of assignments.

A total of 1700 delegates were present

at the event and the plenary session was held

at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen

Square. Keynote speakers were the President

of China, Xi JinPing, and the Director-General

of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.

* Gareth Mainwaring, Croydon, UK

GROUP NEWS

Chris Chalk presents at Runways UK Land conference Aviation practice leader and deputy

chairman of the British Aviation Group,

Chris Chalk, gave a presentation at the

Runways UK Land conference in the

London Guildhall on 26 June. The event,

also attended by Group chairman Keith

Howells, focused on land-related issues

relating to the UK airports capacity

debate.

The conference examined the current

proposals for new runways as the potential

impacts of a decision to build a new London

airport, and the effects that would arise were

Heathrow to be closed. Chriss presentation

contributed to this theme by giving a global

overview of airports around the world that

have been relocated. Chris discussed the

lessons learnt from the many airports around

the world that have been built to replace

existing constrained airports, although none

have been to the same scale as this. He also

spoke about the measures of success, including

cross-funding, regeneration rate, political

perseverance as well as economic impact.

This was a very prominent event in the

aviation calendar, featuring other high-

level speakers including CEO designate for

Heathrow Airport John Holland-Kaye, Liberal

Democrat spokesman for transport Lord

Bradshaw, leader of Kent County Council Paul

Carter, leader of Surrey County Council David

Hodge, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone

and London Mayors aviation advisor Daniel

Moyan.

* Jessica Ryan, Croydon, UK

Aviation practice leader and deputy chairman of the British Aviation Group Chris Chalk gave a presentation at Runways UK Land conference

Gareth Mainwaring (right) was co-chairman at one of the parallel sessions of the ICEST conference



GROUP NEWS

Success at Russias Best Office Awards Mott MacDonald enjoyed triple success at

the Best Office Awards 2014, attended by

over 800 guests in Moscow.

Our work as project and cost managers for

a new office for client BVCP won the Grand Prix

Award for the most outstanding office and we

also won the Brand and Image category.

The Best Office Awards are given to the

best Russian and international office projects

annually. An international jury consisting of

renowned architects, designers and project

managers evaluated 100 projects in

12 categories to choose the Grand Prix Award.

The BVCP office has a bar, canteen, several

coffee points, a separate room for table tennis,

recreation areas for employees and customers

and a lounge area with access to two large,

green terrace gardens.

We also won the Best Design and Idea

category for our role as project and cost

manager for a new part of the Google office in

Moscow. The offices were inspired by the iconic

design of Moscow metro but include state-

of-the-art layout and technology, delivering

a workspace that refers to history but is also

focused on productivity, speed, and modernity.

The first phase of the Google office, where

we also provided project and cost management

services, was winner of the Comfort and

Ergonomics category in 2011.

* Elena Mokrinsaya, Moscow, Russia

From left: Project team Viktoria Glushak and Natalia Amosova with Russia subdivisional manager Arcady Azarov

Becoming an IAM Endorsed Assessor

Mott MacDonald has been certified as an

Endorsed Assessor (EA) for PAS 55 Asset

Management by the Institute of Asset

Management (IAM), which is recognised

globally for its leading role in the sector.

The British Standards Institutes Publicly

Available Specification 55 (BSI PAS 55 1:2008),

commonly referred to as PAS 55, has been

produced by the IAM with the aim of creating

a recognised benchmark for good practice in

physical asset and infrastructure management.

As an endorsed assessor, Mott MacDonald is

able to advise clients on how to achieve good

practice asset management processes which

help improve business effectiveness, efficiency

and sustainability.

In addition, Mott MacDonald will soon be

able to certify ISO 55000, a new international

suite of standards created to give guidance in

asset management best practice. The intention

is that the EA scheme will transfer over to the

ISO in due course.

The newly endorsed team, all from the

Water Investment Planning subdivision, has

cross-sector capabilities and has recently

completed PAS 55 assessments for the Nuclear

Decommissioning Authority and Aquanet.

Paul Chadwick, divisional director explains:

The philosophy underlying the audit approach

is that PAS 55 is there to achieve business

benefits through alignment of asset related

roles with a clear focus on managing related

risks and costs sustainably and efficiently.

Companies are increasingly seeing the value in

carrying out PAS 55 certification as it enables

them to demonstrate to their key stakeholders

that they have effective asset management

policies in place.

It should be noted that the EA status has

been granted to Mott MacDonald Limited (UK),

not to any other parts of the Group, so currently

only Mott MacDonald Limited can issue PAS

55 or ISO 55000 certifications. No other parts

of Mott MacDonald Limited or the wider Mott

MacDonald Group can conduct certification or

gap analysis work under the EA badge without

including one of the endorsed individuals in

the project as lead assessor. Nor can any parts

of the Mott MacDonald Group use the IAM or

EA logos in any printed or electronic marketing

material without consulting the team.

For further information, please contact Paul

Chadwick or click here.

* Paul Chadwick, Cambridge, UK



GROUP NEWS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME

Promoting systems engineering and assurance Mott MacDonald hosted an International

Council on Systems Engineering

(INCOSE) event at its Fleet Place office

in London. INCOSE is an international

professional society for systems

engineers. The event was called HS2

Systems Architecture.

On behalf of Mott MacDonald, Railways

London and North divisional director Robert

Gray gave a short opening speech. There

were over 50 participants representing

20 organisations, including the Civil Aviation

Authority, HS2, Japan Rail East, London

Underground, Network Rail, the Rail Safety

& Standards Board, Siemens, Transport for

London, University College London and the

University of Birmingham.

The keynote speaker for the event was

Eddie Walters from Engineering & Operations

at HS2. HS2 is promoting and delivering the

UKs second high-speed rail link on behalf of

the Department for Transport. Eddie described

how as part of the development process a

systems architecture is being constructed. It

is being used to identify high level interfaces,

align activities concerned with RAM, safety,

requirements and commissioning, and achieve

overall systems demonstration and assurance.

His speech was followed by a question and

answer session.

The event was organised by our systems

engineering and assurance team. It was

supported by technical director Paul Hollywell

and business stream leader Ranjit Davis. The

event was seen as a success and allowed an

opportunity to introduce our general portfolio of

services and in particular systems engineering

and assurance services, to a wide audience.

* Ranjit Davis, Croydon, UK

Whats next on the Business Improvement journey? The Business Improvement Programme

(BIP) has been running for over a year

now and you will have already seen

some changes in the way the business

operates such as the introduction of Lync

and the new People Search.

Ultimately the programme is about making

your working life easier as youll have a more

consistent way of working, quick access to

colleagues and knowledge plus technology

tools to save you time.

Under our three main strands, process,

knowledge and collaboration, here are some of

our key achievements on the journey so far and

updates about whats coming next.

Process how we do things

Three main processes, WIN, DO and

LEARN, will be accessed through the

Nimbus process mapping software. Were

currently piloting WIN and DO with several

units and anticipate rolling them out to the

business in the fourth quarter of this year.

Under LEARN were defining how we

capture and share knowledge as we WIN

and DO our work.

Other governing and enabling functions will

be mapped and reviewed in the third and

fourth quarters.

Knowledge what we know and how we

apply it

SharePoint search replaced Google search

in June and were developing a powerful

search centre.

People search is now available to all staff.

From the end of July everyone can edit their

own profile so we can identify appropriate

resources and network globally through

practice groups see our video and do

yours now!

Were piloting project dashboards to give

project directors and project managers a

rapidly responding visual indicator of project

performance. Other dashboards will be

developed in the fourth quarter.

Collaboration the way we work

together

Lync has been rolled out to everyone.

We will launch the first wave of

collaboration sites for communities of

practice in August. They will include social

networking tools (Yammer) as a new

channel for communication and knowledge

sharing.

Collaboration sites for projects are being

piloted and are due to go live during the

third quarter.

Well be introducing best practice guidelines

and key performance indicators for

collaborative behaviour.

We appreciate your patience and welcome your

feedback in these early days. To find out more

see our site or contact your Unit Champion.

* Chris Brown, Croydon, UK

Artists impression of High Speed Rail 2 (HS2)



Jack Meldrum, dams and barrages technical director, EUNA

1. What is your area of expertise?

My principal area of expertise is dam

engineering, although Im also interested in

hydraulic structures, hydropower and reservoir

sedimentation.

I joined Sir M MacDonald & Partners as a

graduate engineer in 1974. My first two years

were spent assisting on irrigation projects in

Nigeria, Sudan and Iraq and then finally in

Somalia where I spent two months carrying out

soil tests and taking river cross sections, with a

dugout canoe for transport and a safari tent for

accommodation.

At that time there was a small team in the

Cambridge office working on dam projects

under the direction of Ernest Taylor. This

seemed far more interesting than irrigation

and I asked to join. At that time there were no

separate geotechnical, tunnels, hydropower,

structures and contracts sections, and as the

projects required all these components we

did everything even the roads. As a young

engineer this proved very good training.

2. What is the most absorbing challenge

youve tackled what made it so?

Working on the Darlik dam, Turkey, a

70m high rockfill dam and a slipformed

pumping station situated in the reservoir was

challenging. Construction was fast tracked

to take a year out of the original three year

programme. I worked in Turkey for two years

as resident engineer and apart from the many

challenges of the project we were snowed in

for three weeks one winter and my wife took on

the teaching of our eldest two children (by this

stage we had three children).

Mott MacDonald was formed soon

after my return to the UK and I took on the

management of the dams department. This

was an interesting time. The merger of Sir

M MacDonald & Partners with Mott, Hay &

Anderson gave us new specialised resources

to call on, particularly in geotechnics and

tunnelling, enabling us to be involved in larger

multidisciplinary projects.

Internally we were facing the embryonic

stage of the management systems that we

now take for granted and the dams industry

was going through a serious downturn due

to environmental concerns and lobbying

against major dams. The number of our UK

competitors reduced, but we managed to

keep going and we always had at least one

significant dam under construction. During

the period James Williamson and Ewbank

Preece joined the company, strengthening our

capacity to take on major hydropower projects.

I was also appointed as an all reservoirs panel

engineer under the UKs Reservoirs Act 1974.

Ive now worked in 30 countries on

projects on many of the worlds major rivers,

including the Indus, Mekong, Euphrates and

the Nile, where I advised on remedial work

on the original Aswan Dam, one of

Sir M MacDonalds defining projects.

3. Whats the hottest issue in your field

for your clients right now and how are

you tackling it?

I see the challenges for the next generation as

dealing with an ageing population of major

dams its not so easy to demolish a dam and

start again when it has reached the end of its

design life. This is something we have done

much of in the UK which is a reflection of the

older age of UK dams but we have seen less of

internationally.

We are also having to deal with more

and more difficult dam sites and taking on

the challenges of such things as sediment

management, where sediment not only reduces

reservoir volumes (it has been estimated that

nearly 1% of the worlds total reservoir volume

is being lost every year), but also can seriously

damage hydropower equipment.

4. What advice would you give to young

professionals starting out?

For young engineers wanting to get into dam

engineering one of the greatest challenges is

gaining the range of experience required.

Knowledge may now be easier to obtain

thanks to internet and intranet systems, but you

need experience to know how to use it. Dam

design and operation has to account for many

factors. One of the best ways to gain practical

hands-on experience is to mix periods in the

design office with periods on site, including

time as an RE. There is no substitute to seeing

what you have designed being built, and

site affords the opportunity to see what your

colleagues may have designed turning into

reality.

MEET THE EXPERT INTRODUCING INDIVIDUALS WHOSE SKILLS AND OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL EXPERTISE HELPS US DELIVER INDUSTRY-LEADING PROJECTS

Jack Meldrum (centre) on site at the 406MW Chaglla scheme



DEAL OF THE MONTH KEY PROJECT WINS

Strategic framework award for the Ministry of Justice

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by

the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) as one of

the professional service providers on a

new four year national framework.

The Ministry of Justice is one of the UKs

largest government departments, employing

68,000 staff. It had a budget of 8.3bn in

2012/13 and an estate comprising

1600 properties/holdings, including prisons,

probation properties, administrative offices,

courts and lodgings.

After over 10 years of contracting

professional services work on a single discipline

basis, the MoJ decided to launch its first ever

multidisciplinary framework for professional

services. Led by Programme and Commercial

Management (PCM), we bid for potentially up

to 20M fees per annum.

Our position on the framework was secured

by a small team from PCM and Buildings and

Infrastructure (B&I) including Mike Travers,

James Masters, Lisa Perkins and Cathy Travers

working over the Christmas and New Year

period to get ahead of the competition.

The bid was an excellent example of

collaborative working between PCM, B&I and

our architectural partners Feilden + Mawson,

drawing on our partners track record in prisons

and courts, and our project management

capabilities for secure accommodation projects.

MoJ is seen as the leading department

in the UK government for construction using

techniques such as LEAN, BIM and Government

Soft Landings. Working as one of their key

suppliers will provide opportunities to utilise

these innovative techniques.

* James Masters, London, UK

Buildings, ChinaWe are providing detailed mechanical, electrical and public health design for a luxury RMB74M three-storey villa in Shanghai, China.* Louis Zheng, Shanghai, China

Airports, SingaporeWere carrying out the functional planning for a fifth terminal in Changi Airport. Our award-winning work on London Heathrow Terminal 5 helped us win this project.* Chris Chalk, Croydon, UK

Highways, UgandaWere providing technical assistance to build the National Roads Authoritys capability in the use of public private partnerships for a number of road projects * Ronald Athiyo, Kampala, Uganda

Health, Nigeria Were performing commercial and operational due diligence on the re-financing of a new US$124M 160 bed private hospital in Abuja.* Paula Evans, Johannesburg, South Africa

Industry, IndiaWe are providing basic and detailed engineering, tendering and procurement assistance, and construction supervision services on an iron and steel powder processing facility at Dahej, Gujarat.* Santosh Joshi, Mumbai, India

Highways, QatarWere carrying out detailed design of highways and civil works for the US$1.7bn Doha New Orbital Highway Contract 3 one of the largest projects undertaken by Qatars Public Works Authority (Ashghal).* George Ntaoutis, Doha, Qatar

Oil and gas, QatarWere providing engineering services on the upgrade of production facilities at Dukhan oil field.* Hisham Alami, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Industry, MozambiqueWere performing technical, commercial and operational due diligence on a newly constructed US$105M palm oil refinery on the outskirts of Nacala.* Paula Evans, Johannesburg, South Africa

Multi award-winning Manchester Civil Justice Centre completed for the Ministry of Justice



PROJECT NEWS

CALPUFF a new dispersion model The air quality team, based in Brighton,

has expanded its atmospheric dispersion

modelling capability with an advanced

dispersion model known as CALPUFF.

The team already uses a range of

internationally recognised models to assess

air quality impacts at a local scale. However,

the CALPUFF model is designed for predicting

the way the atmosphere behaves over much

larger distances, meaning that it can be

used to look at the impacts of a number of

emission sources across an entire region,

as well as at an individual project level. This

makes it a powerful tool for supporting the

environmental considerations for large-scale

development proposals or policy interventions

by governments.

In the immediate term, the team will

be using CALPUFF as part of its regional

environmental and social assessment, for the

development of up to eight coal fired power

plants along the South Africa and Botswana

border, on behalf of the World Bank.

Matthew OBrien, EUNAs air quality

practice leader, said: The addition of

CALPUFF to our modelling toolkit means we

can advise decision-makers how to build air

quality considerations into the early stages of

their development and policymaking processes,

which is the best time for it.

* Matthew OBrien, Brighton, UK

Solar firsts in China and South Korea We have been appointed by prospective

lenders to undertake acquisition due

diligence on two solar photovoltaic (PV)

projects located in China and South

Korea developed by local firms.

The projects have a total capacity of

approximately 70MW. They are the first

operational solar PV projects assessed by

Mott MacDonald in China and South Korea,

providing significant lessons with respect to

local project performance, contractual and

commercial considerations. Our international

experience has been vital in terms of providing

comfort to the investors who are inexperienced

with solar power in the countries.

Team members from our Bangkok and

Beijing office undertook site visits in April 2014.

The projects strengthen our technical advisory

capability on solar PV operation in Asia Pacific.

* Iban Vendrell, Bangkok, Thailand

Visiting Troja Bridge

On 21 May staff visited the new site

of Troja Bridge over the Vltava river in

Prague, Czech Republic.

Working with Koucky Architects we prepared

the preliminary, tender and detailed design.

The 200m bridge will carry pedestrian and

cycle traffic, four lanes of road traffic, and a

double-tracked tram line. Construction is now

well underway.

The excursion was attended by 27

participants and arranged with the help

of the Czech Association of Consulting

Engineers. Due to demand the excursion was

repeated a week later, including four investors

from the Czech State Railways department

esk drhy.

* Matthew Pollard, Prague, Czech Republic

Artists impression of Troja Bridge in Prague

Powering Georgia

Weve been owners engineer since 2011

on the 175MW Shuakhevi hydropower

project (HPP), located in the Adjara

region in South West Georgia, which has

reached successful financial close.

Shuakhevi HPP will supply the Georgian and

Turkish power systems via a 220kV transmission

line which runs 148km between Batumi and

Akhaltsikhe. The project will also enable

Georgia to better meet electricity demand

during the winter months of December, January

and February.

The project comprises 32km of drill and

blast tunnelling with tunnel diameters from 4m

to 6m in diameter. The headworks comprise

a 5m high weir, and two dams of height 22m

and 44m respectively. The 175MW (2 x 87.5

Francis turbines) Shuakhevi powerhouse utilises

the 440m gross head and 48cu m/s design

flow to generate approximately 465GWh per

annum.

We prepared the feasibility study,

environmental and social impact assessment,

tender design and the detailed design for

Shuakhevi HPP with the support of our sub-

consultants Dolsar of Turkey and Gross Energy

Group of Georgia.

We have a US$19M contract to continue to

provide project management and construction

supervision services through to completion

of the scheme and the start of commercial

operations in early 2017.

* John Prytherch, Cambridge, UK



PROJECT NEWS

Improving life for adopted chidren and their familiesOur Consulting division is working as

lead contractor for the UK Department of

Education (DfE) to implement and test the

prototype Adoption Support Fund (ASF)

with 10 local authorities.

The ASF is designed to attract more

adopters and to improve the support available

to adoptive families.

British Prime Minister David Cameron

commented: The fund will be a lifeline for

many adoptive families, helping them to access

specialist services when they need them most. I

also hope it will reassure parents thinking about

embarking on the hugely rewarding journey of

adoption that, if challenges do arise, they will

not be left alone to cope.

The prototype fund is delivering 2M over

12 months from June 2014. Together with

our partners Core Assets and BAAF we are

helping the local authorities to set up and test

the systems to deliver the ASF prototype. It will

pilot improved methods of assessing families

needs and providing appropriate support. The

12 month prototype follows a six month design

and test phase. Applications for funding are

being received. Our consultants are designing

a prototype that can be replicated across all

local authorities in England in time for national

rollout in June 2015.

Mott MacDonald is making a powerful

impact in the community by also leading on a

number of other national DfE policy projects,

most recently the Achieving Two-Year Olds

(A2YO) and SEND Pathfinder projects.

* Nicola Marshall, Cambridge, UK

Piloting PPPs in Trinidad and Tobago

Mott MacDonald with Ernst & Young

has been awarded two pilot public

private partnership (PPP) projects by the

Government of the Republic of Trinidad

and Tobago, one for schools and early

learning facilities and another for

diagnostic health centres.

The Inter-American Development Bank

(IADB) has provided funding. Were providing

technical and commercial advisory services

to develop the outline business cases on both

projects prior to procurement. We will be

leading the healthcare project and Ernst &

Young will lead the schools and early learning

facilities projects.

These social infrastructure projects

have been identified as high priorities for

the government to improve disintegrating

infrastructure and produce greater consistency

in the provision of services.

On the health front, the public provision

of diagnostic services is currently insufficient

in some areas, and exacerbated by a major

shortage of clinical staff. The PPP is intended to

design, build, finance and operate a number of

new diagnostic centres to significantly improve

patient access to services, which in turn will

improve overall healthcare provision across

the country.

On the schools project, poorly maintained

buildings and insufficient primary school

capacity are significant issues in some parts of

the country. The project is intended to deliver

and maintain 10 new primary schools and

10 early learning facilities across the country.

These projects represent another important

step in expanding our social infrastructure

transaction advisory business, building on

our recent success on similar projects with

the International Finance Corporation. They

are expected to trigger a significant pipeline

of further projects. This could ultimately play

a major role in improving infrastructure and

quality of life in the country.

* Helen Steward, London, UK

A typical primary school in Port of Spain, Trinidad



PROJECT NEWS

Beat the street project helps reduce obesity among young people

School children and local residents in

Thurrock, Essex, UK, are taking part in an

innovative walking initiative designed to

increase physical activity and help reduce

obesity among young people. The Beat

the street project is being managed by

Mott MacDonald, in partnership with the

council's public health team.

104 beat boxes have been strategically

positioned across the borough to encourage

people to explore walking paths and routes in

their local neighbourhood or on their journey

to school. Participants collect points and miles

by swiping a beat card against the beat

box. Participants can find the location of the

104 beat boxes on the Travel-Thurrock app,

which the Mott MacDonald team originally

developed. Local media, schools and

businesses are all on board with the project,

with nearly 15,000 people involved in the

initiative.

The original target was for Thurrock to

collectively walk around the world (40,000km)

and after launching in June, that target was

reached within 10 days. The target has been

revised and it is now expected that a total of

145,000km will be walked!

The project is expected to reduce the cost of

inactivity and a full report on the outcomes will

be quantified after the initiative ends.

* Adrian Barritt, Croydon, UK

Adrian Barritt at the launch event with representatives from Public Health and Intu Lakeside, alongside the Mayor of Thurrock and participants from a local school

Helping United Utilities to 2020 Our design and construction joint venture

Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has

been named as one of four construction

delivery partners (CDPs) that will help

deliver United Utilities AMP6 and

potentially AMP7 capital investment

programmes.

The AMPs run from 2015-20 and 2020-

25. Our role will be reviewed after the first five

years. Individual projects may be of any value

and be located throughout the United Utilities

operational region.

MMB signed the framework contract

following a successful competitive procurement

process. This agreement will see MMB

undertake the design and construction of

projects across the whole of the United Utilities

region and across the full spectrum of water

and wastewater infrastructure and non-

infrastructure, as well as energy related work.

This contract award follows the extension

of MMBs frameworks with both Severn Trent

Water and Yorkshire Water into AMP6 and

the announcement in May 2014 of MMBs

appointment to Anglian Waters new AMP6

Integrated Main Works Capital Alliance. This

is a great result representing significant new

business, in a new region for a new customer.

It exemplifies MMBs reputation for efficient

delivery that has been hard earned over the

course of three successful AMP periods.

* James Harris, Cambridge, UK

Strengthening Namibias power supplyWere technical advisor for the

independent power producer (IPP)

procurement process for a 250MW power

plant in Namibia. Were working for

Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower)

as part of an advisory consortium headed

by KPMG.

Preliminary studies conducted by Mott

MacDonald indicate that the most feasible fuel

sources are gas and liquid fuels. Bidders will

be permitted to use any technology from gas

turbines to reciprocation engines that comply

with international environmental guidelines.

The project is driven by the need for

a reliable supply of electricity to support

economic growth. Namibia has always relied

on electricity imports from the Southern African

Power Pool (SAPP). Historically NamPower

could rely on relatively high levels of imports

but the demand-supply balance in the SAPP has

changed significantly over the past decade as

regional economics have evolved.

The plant will have a design life of at

least 25 years and must achieve commercial

operation by June 2016.

* Maria De Laiglesia, Johannesburg, South Africa



Paving the way for renewable energy in Southeast AsiaWe are developing lending guidelines on

technical risk assessment of renewable

energy projects. The aim is to help

investment in renewable projects in the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

(ASEAN) region by sharing best practice

and lessons learned.

Among ASEAN countries, there is significant

potential for the use of renewable energy to

contribute to a diversified and sustainable

energy mix. In many of the countries,

comprehensive regulatory frameworks for

renewables have been introduced in recent

years, including financial incentives. Despite

efforts, the large-scale deployment of

renewable energy technologies for electricity

generation still faces many barriers, making

private investment in the sector relatively scarce

and often on a case-by-case basis.

An initial workshop with banks from

Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines

and Vietnam was held in May 2014 with the

aim of sharing experiences and best practice

from across the region, particularly from those

countries where considerable investment in

renewable projects has been realised. The

focus was on solar photovoltaic and onshore

wind technologies and the main issues

addressed in the workshop will be included

in the Lending Guidelines. The guidelines

are being developed in association with the

ASEAN-Renewable Energy Support Programme,

the German Gesellschaft fr Internationale

Zusammenarbeit and the ASEAN Centre

for Energy.

* Iban Vendrell, Bangkok, Thailand

Attendees at our first Lending Guidelines renewable energy workshop, ASEAN

A+ for groundbreaking Bangladesh education programmeEnglish in Action (EIA) scored an A+ at

the end of the last phase in 2014 from

independent external reviewers assigned

by the UKs Department for International

Development.

EIA was set up to teach vocational English

language skills to 25M Bangladeshis to enable

greater economic empowerment. It has used

mobile phones and TV soap operas to reach

students outside the education system, and

employed innovative techniques to improve

the quality of classroom teaching too.

EIA is now entering its final

institutionalisation and sustainability phase,

running to 2017. The programme will continue

building on these methods which have made

a great impact on children and adult learners.

EIAs favourable effect on classroom

practices and teachers professional

development has been acknowledged by the

government, and work is going on to absorb

the key elements into mainstream teacher

development systems. EIA has been made an

integral part of a core working group at the

Directorate of Primary Education (DPE). EIA

approaches are being incorprated into the the

DPEs teacher education. Other collaborations

with projects and government organisations are

already underway, and more are on the cards.

* Johan Bentinck, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bangladesh children benefitting from the English in Action programme

PROJECT NEWS



PROJECT NEWS

Changing livesA new film Changing lives has

been produced which focuses on the

achievements of the South Africa

governments ambitious health reform

programme.

The Strengthening South Africas Response

to HIV and Health (SARRAH) programme,

managed by our healthcare experts HLSP,

provides funding and technical advice to

partners working in the South African health

system and the national response to HIV and

AIDS. The main focus of the programme is to

support the Ministry of Health's commitment

to improving the health of all South Africans.

Through interviews with the Minister and

Director-General of Health and senior officials

of the Department of Health, the film charts

progress towards National Health Insurance,

strengthening primary healthcare and

improving the quality of health services.

The film has been well received by both the

Ministry of Health in South Africa and by DFID

who plan to show it at their London head office

as an example of good donor practice.

Watch the film here

* Ken Grant, London, UK

Individual of the Month Mohammed Jinoz

Mohammed Jinoz is a stakeholder

manager based in our Doha office,

Qatar. He is currently co-ordinating

between various disciplines within

Mott MacDonald and statutory authorities

in Qatar to facilitate authority approvals

for a large project in Qatar.

Joined the company: 1996

Current project: We are carrying out

mechanical, electrical and public services,

structural and roads design for B+H Architects

on the Arab Centre for Research and Policy

Studies. This project is a postgraduate

education and research campus and comprises

a total of 26 buildings with a combined

gross floor area of approximately 66,000m

spread over a 10 hectare site. The site also

accommodates a basement level comprising

a 700 space car park and a number of

service utilities and storage rooms with a

gross floor area of approximately 44,000m

below a common podium level shared by all

of the above elements aside from the student

residences.

Memorable experience: The 2008

CAD forum held at picturesque Denham,

Buckinghamshire and subsequent visit to Mott

MacDonald House in Croydon. We went on

an open top bus tour through London at the

weekend during the trip. The whole trip was an

indelible and beautiful experience.

Best business advice: Never be swayed

by money alone.

Best experience: Recently Ive been assigned

as project manager for a project in Doha.

The project involved local engineering support

for a temporary fan zone for the FIFA World

Cup in 2022. The purpose-built fan zone

at Katara Cultural Village will show 16 live

matches from 28 June until the final on a

10m LED panoramic screen the biggest of

its kind in Qatar. The open-air venue will have

a retractable roof and will be cooled using a

prototype of one of the systems that Qatar is

developing to use in stadiums and other public

areas when it hosts the World Cup in 2022.

Through this involvement I have had my first

glimpses of the financial management side of

our business.

Worst experience: It was in early 2008

when I was working on Mirdiff City Centre site,

Dubai. One day due to heavy rainfall all the

site staff were advised to leave the site early. I

left the site at 2.00pm only to find that all the

roads to my home were jam-packed with traffic.

It took 5 hours to travel a distance of 25km and

finally reached home at 7.00pm.

Outside interests: Listening to music,

family and working with my son on his school

activities.

Favourite meal: Shish taouk and hummus

with Turkish bread.

Personal ambition: To be always able to

learn something new.

Desert island essential: My smartphone.

Favourite holiday destination: Ooty, a hill

station in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

Mohammed Jinoz and his wife Nasni

INDIVIDUAL OF THE MONTH



SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

2014 Sustainability Week its global, its ours!

The end of June saw the very first global

Mott MacDonald Sustainability Week.

There was participation, enthusiasm and

feedback from offices across the world,

bringing to life the famous mantra, think

globally, act locally.

Only three webinars were organised

centrally. The remaining 200 plus activities were

run by 155 incredible colleagues, inspired by

Kim Hampton and Lucy Stephenson.

1400 people in 50 offices across 18

countries participated, representing Australia,

New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan,

Thailand, India, Oman, Qatar, United Arab

Emirates, Russia, Hungary, United Kingdom,

Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil and

United States. Such diversity of cultures, energy

and ideas contribute to the Groups ingenuity

and innovation. Thank you all for making this

years Sustainability Week a great success.

We need to keep the enthusiasm generated

during the week active. Some excellent thinking

and discussions took place. Please put ideas

into actions and review progress then report

how youve got on in June 2015. Every week

needs to become a sustainability week.

In case you need a reminder of the ideas

and enthusiasm we saw during the 2014

Sustainability Week, have a look at the

MiMi pages where there is a full report with

highlights of events around the world.

Watch out for events Group and local

and engage in discussion with colleagues about

ways sustainability can add value in your part

of the business. And see you all again for 2015

Sustainability Week we will celebrate progress

made during the year!

* Davide Stronati, London, UK

Staff from around the Group have been getting involved in Sustainability Week including top row, from left: our Rio team, our London team, our Houston team. Bottom row, from left: our Moscow team, our Dubai team and Chennai team



COMMUNITY NEWS

Sports for Life programme Following on from a visit to Palestine

in October 2013, social scientist Felix

Rottmann from the Power unit, visited

Israel with Sport Unites (SU) in June

where he volunteered to help deliver

this summers Sports for Life

programme. The annual programme

aims to bring together Jewish and Arabic

children through the use of sport as a

common platform.

As project leader, Felix was responsible for

one of the seven projects located in the Galilee

region, where he spent the week living with an

Arabic host family in the village of Arraba. This

years Sports for Life programme attracted

more than 540 children aged 8-12 (43% girls).

Leading up to the final days festival,

Felixs responsibilities included facilitating

activities that encouraged team work, close

collaboration and communication, to teach

children about the importance of working

together for common goals. The Sports for Life

programme ended with a festival in Kawkab

village and was attended by children from all

seven projects. At the festival, mixed Arabic

and Jewish teams competed in a football game

(boys) and basketball tournament (girls).

SU is a recently founded non-government

organisation (NGO) that promotes cross-

cultural understanding and international

co-operation in the Middle East through the use

of sport. Its engagement primarily consists of

two sports intervention programmes for children

and teenagers Sports for Life in Israel and

Jordan, and Sports for Human Rights in

Palestine. Participants of both programmes,

from all three countries, meet during an annual

training workshop in Cologne, Germany, where

the years programmes are planned.

SU and Felix would like to thank Mott

MacDonald for the support provided to

Sports for Life activities and look forward

to a mutually beneficial collaboration. Our

Power unit supports SU by providing Felix

with the time to help organise and attend the

NGOs intervention programmes, hence he

will be travelling to Palestine in October 2014

to help deliver the Sports for Human Rights

programme.

* Felix Rottmann, Brighton, UK

What-er fun day

Wobbly rafts, concrete canoes and

drenching your colleagues with water

for a bit of fun. It can only be the

Rutland Regatta.

The ever popular annual event, organised

by Anglian Water, gives employees and

suppliers the chance to team-build and network

while raising cash for WaterAid in the process.

This years regatta on 18 June was another

great success, with more than 400 people

taking part or cheering from the shores of

Rutland Water.

Each year a challenge is set to design and

compete in a new craft for the event. This

year was no exception with the introduction

of the duct tape canoe. There was also the

opportunity to build a concrete canoe, build a

bath boat or build a cardboard canoe.

The idea is to beat the other teams around

an 800m course and the hardest part is

paddling in a straight line. Winners of all the

categories went into the final Race of Races,

which this year was won by Mott MacDonalds

Joe Andrews, Yu Feng and Matt Fox from the

Water division.

On dry land, spectators enjoyed a tug of

war, a climbing wall, target golf, a raffle, an

auction and a hog roast, all helping to raise

around 50,000 for WaterAid.

* Dave Olsen, Cambridge, UKFelix Rottmann (back row, second from left) and the Arabic-Jewish girls basketball team

From left: Joe Andrews, Yu Feng and Matt Fox at the Rutland Regatta



COMMUNITY NEWS

Big Bang inspiring the next generation

What is civil engineering and what

do civil engineers do? Those are the

questions that 20 members of our Young

Professional Excellence (YPE) network

hoped to answer at the National Big

Bang Fair, held at the Birmingham NEC

in March this year.

The aim of the annual fair is to promote

science, technology, engineering and

mathematics (STEM subjects) to young people

aged 7-19. This year, as well as volunteers,

Mott MacDonald also provided financial

backing to operate a civil engineering hub in

association with the Institution of Civil Engineers

and other industry partners. This collaborative

apporach ensured that civil engineering had a

much larger presence than in previous years.

YPs from Transportation and Buildings and

Infrastructure showcased the diversity of civil

engineering by developing and running activity

stands covering water, structures, tunnelling

and ground engineering, transport, waste and

energy. The mix of fun hands-on and digital

challenges included learning about foundations

and geotechnics by propping up Pisa using

clay, sponges and dowels; guessing which

waste products can be utilised as building

materials; and finding out how tunnels are

constructed by examining parts of Phyllis, a

Crossrail tunnel boring machine. In order to

demonstrate how station and transit systems

are planned, our in-house-developed

pedestrian modelling software STEPS was

available for testing.

All attendees rated the hub as either

excellent or very good and more people than

ever requested follow-up information after

the event. A big thank you must go to all

staff involved.

75,000 people visited the event over four

days. To find out more about 2015 Big Bang

Fair please contact Ben Jeffree.

Mott MacDonald is also involved in the

Class of Your Own Big Bang Classroom

Challenge.

* Victoria Sutherland, Croydon, UK

From left: Mark Osborne, Warren Barrett and Sophie Young at the Exeter Big Bang event

Victoria Sutherland at the National Big Bang Fair

Dionisis Stamatiadis and Elena Garcia at the Sussex Big Bang Event

Big Bang events: Exeter and BrightonThe Exeter Big Bang event took place

on 26 June. Three staff showed off real

world applications of STEM subjects,

explaining the variety of careers Mott

MacDonald could offer them in future

years.

The Sussex Big Bang Event in Brighton took

place on 1 July and two of our engineers, Elena

Garcia and Dionisis Stamatiadis took part by

helping school students to build and fly rockets.

We also sponsored a project management

prize which was awarded to students from UTC

Reading for their civil engineering project to

redesign Reading Station.

* Sophie Young and Mark Osborne, Exeter, UK,

* Simon Markwick, Brighton, UK



bbCaptinon.

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Haider Javed and

Hera Mazhar, a

daughter, Zainab

Bint, 20 June

Johannesburg,

South Africa

Lesley Martin and

Kevin Droste, a son,

Kian, 31 March

HATCHES

MATCHES

Kevin Skebo, Halifax, Canada,

2 June, 40 years service

Stephen Reeves, Birmingham, UK,


Eva Nutland, Sheffield, UK,


Terry Spencer, Cambridge, UK,


A Narayanan, Mumbai, India,


John King, Brighton, UK,


Jeremy Purseglove, Cambridge, UK,


David Tibke, Birmingham, UK,


Tanya Baxby, Sheffield, UK,


RETIREMENTS OBITUARIES

Raymond Walters, 14 June, (retired 2004)

Sylvia Walton, 13 July (retired 1999)

Croydon, UK

Eddie Shaw-Smith and Krisztina Katalin Szab,

21 June

Dubai, UAE

Chris Tebb and Cristina Zidaru, 30 May

Norwich, UK

Mel Hinson and Daniel Jefferson, 14 June

Moncy Philip It is with great sadness that we announce

the sad and untimely death of Moncy

Philip, junior piping designer, who

passed away on 18 May, due to a

respiratory problem, at his native place

in Kerala, India.

He leaves behind his wife Vijimol and son

Jerome, aged 1 year and 6 months.

Moncy joined our Oman operations in

2007 as a CAD operator with the Piping

department. He was later promoted to junior

designer.

At the time of his untimely death, he was

working on Oxy projects, having earlier worked

on ODC South (ATE) projects from 2011.

Anyone who worked closely with Moncy will

be familiar with his dedication and commitment

to work. Moncy was an excellent human being,

very friendly and a dedicated worker. His

sudden departure has shocked and saddened

us all, he will be sorely missed by all his

colleagues in Mott MacDonald.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife,

son and other members of his family.

* Drex Morris, Muscat, Oman



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