ECOS Millennium Environmental Centre, Northern
Ireland showcases sustainable building design
Mott MacDonald’s mission to provide customer satisfaction
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 (the
Ashton Canal)
before the Commonwealth Games, or in the design of award-winning
‘green’ buildings such as the
ECOS
Millennium Environmental Centre in Northern Ireland, and
The Sage, Gateshead›, UK.
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
environment 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.
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