M2 - July 2014
M2 - July 2014
M2 - July 2014
JULY 2014
Project Manager of the Year Award
showcasing 2014s top talent
15
Excellence
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
From left: Former UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs William Hague, Chancellor of the Exchequer George
Osborne and India MD Mike Barker
Gareth Mainwaring (right) was co-chairman at one of the parallel sessions of the ICEST conference
Aviation practice leader and deputy chairman of the British Aviation Group Chris Chalk
gave a presentation at Runways UK Land conference
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
From left: Project team Viktoria Glushak and Natalia Amosova with Russia subdivisional manager Arcady Azarov
Airports, Singapore
Buildings, China
Industry, Mozambique
Industry, India
Health, Nigeria
Highways, Qatar
Highways, Uganda
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
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 subconsultants 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
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
Strengthening
Namibias
power supply
Were 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
Changing lives
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
Felix 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
From left: Mark Osborne, Warren Barrett and Sophie Young at the Exeter Big Bang event
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18/18
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Lesley Martin and
Kevin Droste, a son,
Kian, 31 March
RETIREMENTS
OBITUARIES
Moncy Philip
MATCHES
Croydon, UK
Eddie Shaw-Smith and Krisztina Katalin Szab,
21 June
Norwich, UK
Mel Hinson and Daniel Jefferson, 14 June