One of the fastest growing parts of the Atkins Group, the aerospace team is based at our offices in Bristol, Derby, Glasgow, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Sharjah, UAE.
Atkins’ strategy, as a leading provider of mechanical systems solutions to aerospace manufacturers, is to focus on:
- long-term partnerships with prime contractors
- core skills: project management and high-end engineering
- managing the supply chain (local and offshore)
- delivering projects from niche technologies to turn-key packages
Our business is about relationships. We work closely with our clients to develop a total understanding of their needs. We can then be confident that the solutions we develop meet all their engineering challenges.
Our processes are approved to Aerospace Quality Standard AS9100. We have a reputation for high-quality and well-managed solutions that use advanced tools and processes to help our clients achieve cost-effective, competitive and timely delivery.
There is an increasing demand for our high-end engineering and project and supply chain management skills. This combined with the increasing breadth of our work, gives our engineers technical ability, commercial awareness, excellence client focus and outstanding people skills.
Our major projects include:
- Airbus – A380 Wing Design and Certification Analysis
- Airbus – A350 Composite Wing Design/Analysis
- Airbus – Aircraft Fuel Systems
- Rolls Royce – Specialist Manufacturing Tooling
- Rolls Royce – Engine Project Design and Analysis Support
We have a unique combination of talented, practical and experience professionals from which to select the best expertise for each client and project.
Our capabilities:
- Aerostructures
- Aero-engines
- Stress Analysis
- Liner and Non-linear finite element analysis
- Concept and detailed design and integration
- Fatigue and damage tolerance
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Airworthiness
- Mechanical Systems including Kinematics
- Fluid Mechanics
- Thermal Engineering
- Project and Programme Management
- Consultancy
- Safety and Reliability
- Vibration and Acoustic Analysis
- Crashworthiness
- Software Safety
- Human Factors
- Requirement Analysis
- Consultancy
Our success is built on our reputation for high quality, well managed solutions.