A proud history of bridge engineering

Industrial Ring Road Bridges, Thailand
In 2008 Mott MacDonald celebrated 106 years of engineering in transport. Over this time our work on bridges has been a major part of our portfolio. We contributed to the Thames crossings in London in the early 1900s, the Tyne Bridge in 1928 – then the longest steel arch in Britain – and major UK suspension bridges in the 1960s such as Tamar, Forth and Severn. While our origins are in the UK, today our reach is global. In recent years, we’ve left our mark working on London’s Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Hong Kong’s Lantau Link, Bangkok’s Rama VIII Bridge, Istanbul’s New Galata Bridge and the Taiwan High Speed Railway, to name but a few.

Mott MacDonald has centres of excellence for bridge engineering around the world. This allows us to combine international best practice with local knowledge, wherever our clients are based.

Our technical expertise and experience covers the full spectrum of bridge engineering, from foundations to aerodynamics to urban pedestrian bridges to major estuarial crossings. We’re at the forefront of the latest technical developments – examples of our current research activities include railway bridge dynamics and composite materials.

Forth Road Bridge, UK
We’re immensely proud of our track record – the bridges around the world are testament to the efforts and skill of our staff.