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Atkins earns Environment Agency award - 29 August 2008
Atkins, working with the Environment Agency National Capital Programme Management Service (NCPMS), has won a Project Excellence Award in recognition of their outstanding efforts on the Regional Habitat Creation Programme in the Anglian Region.
Atkins, the UK’s largest engineering design consultancy, will be providing strategic support services to Scottish Water to help the company deliver its capital works programme over the next five years. The programme covers the Q&SIIIb regulatory period which has a value of around £2.5 billion and runs from 2010 until 2015.
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, in joint venture with Galliford Try and Costain, has been awarded an extension to its AMP4 framework with United Utilities (UU) to cover the five-year AMP5 period starting in April 2010.
The Environment Agency has contracted Atkins to provide expert ecological advice in freshwater ecology and conservation management across England and Wales.
Atkins, the UK’s largest engineering design consultancy, has been appointed to a number of Wessex Water’s workstream framework agreements for the AMP5 investment period, including the water company’s largest ever new mains project, the Water Supply Grid.
Atkins’ senior ecologist Kim Olliver is starring in a blog on the London 2012 website. In her role as project ecologist for the Olympic Park, Kim talks about progress made so far cleaning the natural environment around the Park, including its waterways.
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 has been appointed by Severn Trent as one of four consultants on a seven-year framework to deliver feasibility and scoping design services for the £2.5 billion capital investment programme between 2010 and 2015.
Atkins has notched up three major wins in the Edie awards, the built environment sector’s most prestigious awards ceremony. The honours included being named Best Environmental Consultancy in the UK. This is the fifth year running that Atkins has scooped the top prize in the Environmental Excellence category.
Atkins has capped an extraordinary fortnight of achievement after winning three major industry awards at two events – taking its tally of awards won in the last two weeks to seven.
Scottish Water has appointed engineering design consultancy Atkins to its marine survey services framework.
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.
The UK’s largest engineering design consultancy, Atkins, is supporting the call from the Environment Agency to the UK government to guarantee sufficient spending on flood defences in the wake of the GBP3.2 billion bill from the summer floods.
Atkins, in a joint venture with UK based ITAD and Abuja based Enplan, has been awarded a €7.2 million contract over two years to provide technical assistance to the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme (WSSSRP) in Nigeria.
Cost and project management consultancy, Faithful+Gould, has estimated that the UK’s two million offices and 26 million homes leaked an additional GBP1.2 billion worth of heat over the past two weeks compared to a normal winter.
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.
Atkins is taking a leading role at this year’s Ecobuild, the world’s biggest event dedicated to sustainable design, construction and the built environment. Attended by the most influential and highly-regarded figures from across the industry, Atkins will have six of its experts speaking at the event.
The Environment Agency has appointed engineering design consultancy Atkins and Entec to its Anglian Region Framework to deliver hydrogeological services and general water resources work.
Atkins, the UK’s largest engineering design consultancy, has been appointed by Bristol Water to provide multidisciplinary services on its capital investment programme for the next five years. The £5 million contract will run until 2015 and covers Bristol Water’s entire AMP5 Capital Investment Programme as defined by its five year regulatory review. This is Atkins’ seventh AMP5 win and it underlines the company’s position as one of the UK water industry’s leading consultancies.