The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) will hire six new full-time planners and a director of real estate, acting on a consultant’s recommendation that it needs more in-house expertise to handle the city’s current building boom with more than 14 million square feet under construction.

The outside study will help shape Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s revamping of the agency that controls development throughout the city. The goal is to make the BRA more transparent and efficient, while accelerating reviews of major developments and improving long-range planning, Director Brian Golden said.

“This isn’t a valentine to the agency. The critiques in here are very often the critiques we make of ourselves,” he said at a press briefing.

The report by McKinsey & Co. released Wednesday faulted the BRA for lack of clear employee evaluation standards, a balkanized workplace environment, poor record-keeping of properties it owns and an unpredictable review process for major developments.

The agency has advertised seven new positions with an estimated annual cost of more than $500,000 in an attempt to address shortcomings identified in the report.

The BRA is an independent agency and relies heavily on lease revenues from properties it owns to fund its budget. Revenues totaled $49 million in fiscal 2014, approximately half of which came from lease income.

McKinsey & Co. estimated the BRA can reap up to $8 million from leases of an estimated 100 underutilized parcels it owns. But the agency lacks a comprehensive list of real estate assets, and currently has just two employees assigned to real estate management.

The agency has advertised a new position, director of real estate, with an advertised salary range of $103,000 to $134,000. The director will be responsible for increasing real estate revenue by at least 5 percent annually over the next five years, the report recommended.

Two properties have the most short-term potential to generate more income, Golden said: the China Trade Center at 2 Boylston St. and 12 Channel St. in the Marine Industrial Park. The BRA will spend nearly $12 million to upgrade the two structures and make them more attractive to future tenants.

Those expenses will be paid through the BRA’s $18-million current surplus.

The BRA this year is launching Boston 2030, its first citywide master plan in a half-century, after relying in recent decades on outside consultants to conduct piecemeal reviews of neighborhoods. Although the two-year process will be led by an outside consultant, three of the new BRA planners will be assigned to work on the master plan, Golden said.

Golden also announced personnel changes designed to address the report’s findings.

David Carlson, a senior architect and agency employee since 1984, has been named deputy director of the urban design group, which reviews the appearance of proposed buildings. Carlson replaces Prataap Patrose who will remain in the department.

Robert Luisi, previously the director of administration and finance, will become a special assistant to Golden concentrating on long-term reforms.

The full report and the BRA’s action plan are available here.