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Atkins teams up with UCLan to advance pioneering training academy
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has teamed up with Atkins, one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies, to provide its nuclear training academy with fully accredited, university-standard courses.
Atkins boost energy sector capability with high profile hire
Atkins has underlined its ambitions in the energy sector by hiring Tony Price - the man who led the £42 billion Sellafield decommissioning and major projects programme for British Nuclear Group – as major projects director.
Atkins strengthens offshore renewables team with key appointment
Atkins, the UK’s largest engineering consultancy and one of the world’s largest design firms, has appointed Paul Glendinning as chief electrical engineer to its offshore renewables business.
Atkins’ achievements in subsea engineering over the past 12 months culminated in the company picking up a brace of awards at the Subsea Business Awards, an annual celebration of excellence across the sector.
Atkins has today (6 April) launched a comprehensive suite of tools which will help organisations make decisions on how to reduce carbon – both embodied and operational – and influence their design choices.
Atkins has appointed Phil Malem, the former head of Sellafield Limited’s Capenhurst decommissioning facility, to lead the development of its nuclear strategy and positioning in new markets. He is Atkins’ second senior energy management-level recruit this year following the appointment of Tony Price, ex-Sellafield project director, and is another critical step forward in the company’s nuclear growth plans.
The UK is in an excellent position to emerge at the forefront of offshore wind energy expertise following the vast £75bn expansion announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown today, according to Martin Grant, managing director of Atkins’ energy division.
The UK’s largest engineering consultancy, Atkins, today offered to help bridge the nuclear skills gap by opening up its own training academy to key partners in the nuclear industry. This could be a vital additional resource as a report from the nuclear national skills body, Cogent, today underlined the need to train 1000 new nuclear engineers every year until 2025 just to maintain the current energy output from the sector.
Buckingham Palace is famous for being the most expensive home in the world you’ll never be able to buy but according to cost consultants, Faithful+Gould, you could build a new energy-efficient replica for £320 million.
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.
Atkins, as part of the Engage consortium, has signed one of the biggest engineering contracts in Europe with Fusion for Energy (F4E). The consortium has been awarded the architect engineer contract for the building and civil infrastructures for ITER, the world’s latest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in southern France. The Engage contract is valued at approximately 150 million Euros.
The Atkins-designed Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC) has announced the official certification of the building’s wind turbines by Bahrain’s Electricity Distribution Directorate (EDD).
Atkins engineers have completed nearly 60,000 hours of work helping British Energy, now part of EDF Energy, bringing back four nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 and Hartlepool into service.
Martin Grant, managing director of Atkins’ Energy business, has told Channel 4 News of the energy industry’s growing demand for engineering experts. He says that the global appetite for new forms of energy will require an extra 500,000 engineers to satisfy its needs over the coming two decades. Read his full article below.
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’ 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.
Faithful+Gould, part of the Atkins engineering design group, has been awarded a professional services consultancy agreement by EDF Energy to support its UK Nuclear New Build Project.
Atkins will present a paper on carbon dioxide capture and storage at this week’s All
Energy Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.
An Atkins team, led by the Power Generation team in Glasgow, were critical in the success of the recent merger between the Dutch utility Nuon and Swedish utility Vattenfall who have now joined forces to form one of Europe’s biggest energy companies.