CIVIL ENEGINEERING
MCL&H's diverse specialists help our clients plan, build and own a diverse portfolio – from site developments to water systems, and from energy facilities to transport networks.
Restoring Manchester’s derelict waterfront, treating Hong Kong’s sanitary sewage in a neighbour-friendly facility and replacing the highway up to the Golden Gate Bridge where it runs through a US National Park – these projects all show how civil engineering can help improve communities.
Our Approach
Shaping marine, road and rail infrastructure
Delivering infrastructure and assets that benefit communities,
encourage business growth and improve connections.
Our Civil Engineering department offers design and construct services across a range of disciplines including port and harbour developments, river and coastal engineering, road and rail infrastructure, environmental improvements, public realm and landscaping works, sustainable urban drainage systems, and energy and renewables.
We have developed a reputation for delivering safe, innovative and high-quality sustainable marine projects, striving for completion on-time and to budget.
Multifaceted vision
Our civil engineering clients plan, build and own an extraordinarily diverse portfolio from site developments to water systems, and from energy facilities to transport networks. Their needs vary from select civil engineering skills, such as grading and drainage, to full management and execution of civil engineering design.
MCL&H’s specialists cover the entire range of civil engineering needs. For large coordinated design efforts, our project leaders empathetically coordinate diverse specialists to deliver designs that realise our client’s goals.
Efficiency particularly dominates the conversation with today’s clients. Efficient use of capital, land, operating budgets and natural resources are common themes. Often, efficiency translates into expanded project value. The developers of New Songdo City, for example, asked MCL&H to engineer South Korea’s first seawater canal to serve multiple functions – as an urban cooling mechanism, a transport link, a natural habitat and an amenity for the City.
Skills for a complex world
Whether facing pressure from the community for civil engineering works that are sympathetic to their neighbourhoods or shareholder demands to generate revenue sooner through carefully phased construction, clients need solutions that help them stay in front.
Clients expect the best global standards in civil engineering. They want designs that draw on the latest in research and which customise tested solutions for individual requirements.
We can help because MCL&H’s sophisticated knowledge management networks connect our civil engineers around the world. By sharing experience, we can tailor the best tested solution to fit a local client’s project. MCL&H too funds and does research that defines and shares leading technology and thinking – and is always focused on delivering value to clients.
We also help clients visually articulate value to the community, and in approvals processes, by combining our experience in stakeholder engagement with leading skills in virtual modelling.
Because MCL&H meets all these expectations, clients bring us wide-ranging challenges – from heritage-sensitive infrastructure renewal in Bucharest’s historical centre to boundary-pushing engineering for Marina Bay Sands® Integrated Resort, Singapore.
STRUCTURE
The firm pushes the boundaries of thinking in design to create increasingly innovative project solutions, thereby increasing client outcomes.
All You Need in a One-Stop Shop
Major infrastructure projects, by their very nature, involve significant investment. They require solutions that are cost-effective, efficient, sustainable and delivered in an environment in which risks are managed.
Infrastructure design brings together many of the skills and services available across Arup, from geotechnics, water engineering, bridge design and tunnels, to site development, rail, waste and highway design. It also brings together truly capable and influential people with wide project experience and interesting and inspirational stories to tell.