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Atkins acquisition boosts nuclear design capability - 06 October 2008

WS Atkins plc (Atkins), Europe’s largest design and engineering consultancy, has strengthened its position in the nuclear sector with the acquisition of MG Bennett & Associates Ltd (MG Bennett), a multidisciplinary engineering design company, from its founder shareholders for a cash consideration of £2.5 million.

Atkins Signs Major New Contract with DTIC - 08 June 2009

Atkins, the UK's leading engineering consultancy, has been awarded a contract to provide support to the Capability Vision Project Support Office (CVPSO) at the Defence Technology and Innovation Centre (DTIC) in Shrivenham. The CVPSO, which also includes both DTIC and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) staff, provides centralised co-ordination and communication across the five Capability Visions launched in February this year. The CVPSO will also work across the collective MoD delivery organisation with strong relationships being delivered between SIT and DE&S in order to achieve rapid and effective exploitation of S&T into MoD programmes.

Leading UK road- and rail-builders agree plan to reduce lifetime emissions of major developments - 11 December 2009

Leading UK construction organisations have joined together to develop a common approach to reduce emissions across the whole lifetime of major infrastructure projects. For the first time, developers of road and rail now have a consistent means to assess the carbon impacts of trains, cars and lorries using their services and can use this information to understand the total carbon impacts of infrastructure projects.

LOCOG appoints Atkins as official engineering design services provider - 19 January 2009

The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has appointed Atkins as the official engineering design services provider for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The company will provide multidisciplinary engineering design consultancy for the temporary venues and overlay that LOCOG is providing within London and across the country for the Games. Under the tier three deal, Atkins will also have exclusive rights in the engineering design sector to London 2012 marks.

Atkins calls for new industrial revolution to secure low carbon future - 23 July 2009

The low carbon white paper issued by the government (last week) presents the engineering sector with the greatest opportunity for growth since the industrial revolution, says Keith Clarke, chief executive of the UK’s biggest engineering design consultancy, Atkins.

Atkins presents "moral case for climate of change" in FT - 23 July 2009

Atkins’ Carbon Critical Design journey is centre-stage in today’s Financial Times, with chief executive Keith Clarke spelling out why the engineering sector has to raise its game in working out ways of adapting to a low carbon economy.

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