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Newbiggin Bay project wins prestigious industry award.

A civil engineering project which played a key role in rejuvenating a Northumberland community has this week been recognised with one of the most prestigious honours the industry has to offer after.


Read the latest issue of our Water & Environment Solutions Magazine.

This latest issue includes a number of very topical areas, namely sustainable development in regeneration, complex infrastructure projects, carbon footprinting and corporate sustainability to meeting targets in waste management.


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 joint venture wins United Utilities contract extension - 06 July 2009

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.

Atkins ecologist stars in London 2012 blog - 11 March 2009

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 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.

Atkins awarded seven-year framework by Severn Trent Water - 16 October 2008

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.

Five years as the Best Environmental Consultancy - 16 November 2009

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 scoops three more awards to cap incredible fortnight - 17 November 2008

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.

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 supports the Environment Agency’s urgent call for more flood defence spending - 19 January 2010

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 awarded contract to improve water supply and sanitation in Nigeria - 20 March 2009

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.

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.

Atkins to speak at Ecobuild 2009 - 24 February 2009

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.

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