Realise greater value from your projects

Combining rich social and environmental data with project information empowers clients and investors to achieve better outcomes for people and the planet.

Cassandra Stewart
Associate, social outcomes, Mott MacDonald

Delivering social and environmental benefits is increasingly vital for everyone involved in planning, designing, building and managing infrastructure. It is recognised as being ‘the right thing to do’. But it is also necessary. Regulators, funding bodies, investors and communities are growing ever more concerned about the challenges posed by climate change, environmental degradation and social inequality.

Stakeholders want more than reassurance that negative impacts are being mitigated. They want infrastructure projects to do good, beyond their primary function.

But the process of assessing and quantifying potential outcomes is often time consuming, expensive and inefficient. And, in reality, lengthy assessment documents are seldom read in their entirety. Unhelpfully, they often arrive too late to shape decision making in a way that maximises positive effects.

Using it, we can help our clients explore and quantify the social and environmental implications of project-related choices in the early stages of development, when there is greatest flexibility.

We have addressed these challenges by developing People and Planet. It is a digital solution designed to improve the robustness and efficiency of insights to drive benefits-related decision making. Using it, we can help our clients explore and quantify the social and environmental implications of project-related choices in the early stages of development, when there is greatest flexibility.

People and Planet is hosted on our digital platform, Moata.

The solution combines details of proposed projects with open-source social and environmental data to generate insights across a variety of indicators. For example: access to essential services, employment, retail, healthcare, leisure, education and training; air and water quality; biodiversity and nature positivity; carbon emissions and climate resilience; economic uplift, job creation and community development; health and wellbeing; noise; and social diversity, equality and inclusion.

For asset owners and operators, People and Planet illustrates how investments can meet strategic objectives and contribute positively to nature and local communities.

Insights are represented graphically, using maps and dashboards, for easy and effective communication across project teams and with stakeholders. People and Planet enables rapid exploration and comparison of options, informing conversations about different scenarios, options, trade-offs and benefits.

For asset owners and operators, People and Planet illustrates how investments can meet strategic objectives and contribute positively to nature and local communities. Investors can better identify projects that align with their social and environmental commitments and achieve the best results.