About the sector
Water is an important resource all around the world and under increasing pressure from growing populations, pollution, manufacturing and changing lifestyles. Atkins is a major player in the water market, supporting the water, wastewater and water-related environmental sectors with a range of services from water strategy planning and flood management to infrastructure design and maintenance.
Flood alleviation and infrastructure management
Our key expertise includes asset management and operations, design and delivery of a variety of schemes from utility infrastructure to flood defences, river management and habitat conservation and hydropower, programming investment, benchmarking services, balancing risks, and developing effective technologies relating to water.
We combine leading-edge engineering with in-depth experience to deliver total solutions that satisfy the needs of our clients. We have more than 650 professionals committed to the water market around the world.
We have won awards for our projects and consistently achieve high ratings in client surveys. Recently, we have been voted ‘Best for Water’ at the EDIE Awards for Environmental Excellence 2010. The British Construction Industry Awards 2010 also recognised our work on the London 2012 Olympic Park enabling works and the Gainsborough Flood Alleviation scheme.