Mott MacDonald to provide digital Smart Object Library to Environment Agency

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Environment Agency to provide a digital Smart Object Library.

The Environment Agency is to use Mott MacDonald’s Moata Intelligent Content as its Smart Object Library (SOL) and will make it available to all of its internal teams and project delivery partners.

The move allows the Environment Agency to use and re-use high-quality, standardised BIM (building information modelling) content across its project portfolio, to reduce model development time and enable the rapid prototyping of designs. 

Moata Intelligent Content provides a standardised, managed library of BIM objects that can be re-used instead of re-created. 

It will give the Environment Agency and its collaborative partnerships the objects they need to develop designs at pace and with confidence – delivering efficiencies, improving sustainability and helping to reach net zero carbon targets.  

The award follows the successful demonstration over the last 12 months of Moata’s capabilities and Mott MacDonald’s digital advisory and water project delivery domain expertise. 

The managed object aspect featuring a team of experts, creating and quality checking all objects before they are made available, makes the Moata Intelligent Content library particularly powerful, with each component of the highest quality so it can be used accurately via supply partners and projects.

Kanita Dogra, project manager at the Environment Agency, said: “Working collaboratively with our delivery partner Mott MacDonald has been a pleasure to produce a brilliant and innovative smart object library. The ability to rapidly produce objects in a streamlined and efficient manner will certainly aid and support successful capital project delivery in the Environment Agency. 

“The time and cost savings can be expertly measured and recorded to showcase the benefits and positive outcomes of the smart object library and we look forward to discovering more ways to grow and develop the library to encourage improved future designs.”

Mark Plowman, key account leader and national framework manager at Mott MacDonald, added said: “This is a fantastic win for Mott MacDonald. It will lead to positive, far-reaching benefits within the Environment Agency and their supply partners, utilising and offering high quality, checked and approved objects and templates ready for consumption at a couple of clicks – a step forward in productivity for our industry.”

The flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) capital programme, of which this is part, plays a key role in delivering the broader EA2025 plan to protect and enhance the environment as a whole and contribute to sustainable development. By 2025, the aim is to have created more climate resilient places and infrastructure, by ensuring the nation is prepared for flooding and coastal change.