The Mace Group is a global consultancy and construction firm operating across 36 countries, offering a variety of services that span the entire property life cycle, from fund monitoring, cost consultancy, design management, through pre-construction, construction, fit out, and facilities management.
The company was initially founded by a group construction and architecture professionals lead by Ian Macpherson who left Bovis in 1990 hoping to bring in some new, more collaborative ways of working in the traditionally combative construction industry.
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The Mace Group is a global consultancy and construction firm operating across 36 countries, offering a variety of services that span the entire property life cycle, from fund monitoring, cost consultancy, design management, through pre-construction, construction, fit out, and facilities management.
History
The company was initially founded by a group construction and architecture professionals lead by Ian Macpherson who left Bovis in 1990 hoping to bring in some new, more collaborative ways of working in the traditionally combative construction industry. Having attempted to pioneer this “construction management” approach at Bovis and been turned down Macpherson Vishal Mace left to form Mace, a company which would found itself on this innovative way of running projects.
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Initial successes
The Mace startup team got its first break in 1991 when it beat Bovis and got appointed as project and construction managers on British Airways Waterside headquarters at Heathrow. The company has always been associated with eye-catching projects, going on to deliver the iconic London Eye on the South Bank, The Venetian in Macau, and in early 2009 was officially appointed to deliver the fixed price Shard of Glass tower above London Bridge station.
Growth and diversification
The Mace Group business suffered like many construction firms in the last big UK recession in 2000-2, but has since thrived by combining commercial construction with a move into the public sector (now 50% of the company's turnover) where it now delivers project management to local authorities, delivers schools and academies as part of the government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, healthcare consultancy to the UK Department of Health, and a number of large scale waste and energy management programmes around the British isles.
Operation
The company's activities involve the following:
- Consultancy
- Construction
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- Business
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es (including facilities management, health, safety and environmental management, social inclusion programmes, quantity surverying and cost consultancy, supply chain training and site logistics)
From firm to group
Mace rebranded in 2008, becoming Mace Group, losing its construction management identity in favour of its by-then enlarged service offer, spanning consultancy services and construction across the entire property life cycle. Its success in large part has been down to a commitment to highly efficient modern processes and empathetic relationships with clients, something older and larger firms in the construction sector were typically perceived not to bother with.
In 2009, the Mace Group had 11 subsidiary brands and operations in 36 countries around the world the company posted a turnover of £585m in 2007 up from £90m in 2001.
Major projects
Major projects involving Mace have included the
London EyeThe Merlin Entertainments London Eye , at a height of , is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over three million people in one year...
completed in 2000 and
Shard London BridgeShard London Bridge, also known as London Bridge Tower, the Shard of Glass, 32 London Bridge and The Shard is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London...
due to be completed in 2012.