Atkins moves up in ENR rankings - 23 July 2010
Engineering News Record has published its latest rankings charting how the world’s most important design and engineering firms are doing, and Atkins has risen in several categories.
The company rose one place to number 29 in the top 200 international design firms listing, retained its status as number 11 in the table of top 150 global design firms and, for the first time ever, featured in ENR’s top ten for the Middle East.
Although the overall story from this year’s listings reflects the recent economic climate, the good news according to ENR is that major design firms are now far better prepared to cope with hard times than at the beginning of the recession, with the bigger players following a “flight to quality”.
Keith Clarke, Atkins’ chief executive, echoed that, telling the magazine: “The only way to survive is to be able to invest and stay at the higher end. We are not going to chase work for the sake of volume.”
How Atkins rated:
• Remains 11th in the Top 150 global design firms;
• Rose one place to 29th in the Top 200 international design firms;
• Ranked for the first time in the Top 10 by market (9th in the Building sector, and 10th in Hazardous Waste);
• Ranked for the first time in the Top 10 by region (8th in the Middle East).
Read the ENR report in full here.
Read the ENR rankings comparison table here.
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For more information:
Andy Winstanley
Head of Media Relations
+44(0)1372 752018 / +44(0)7803 259643
Andy.Winstanley@atkinsglobal.com
Notes to editors:
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is the UK’s largest engineering and design consultancy and the world’s 11th largest design firm. We have the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy. Whether it’s the concept for a new skyscraper, the upgrade of a rail network, the modelling of a flood defence system or the improvement of a management process, we plan, design and enable solutions.
Recent projects include:
• Major infrastructure works, such as the design and programme management of the civil works for the Dubai Metro red and green lines;
• High profile transport planning and urban design – our innovative scheme to deliver a diagonal crossing at London’s Oxford Circus has helped tackle the problem of pedestrian crowding;
• Key rail projects – providing architectural and engineering design services on London’s Crossrail, Europe’s biggest civil engineering project, and designing stations, tunnelling and track systems on Gautrain, South Africa’s first high speed line;
• Multidisciplinary building design – North Wood Primary School in Darlington is an exemplar project which raises standards for environmental design and community engagement;
• Vital water and environmental projects – as part of a joint venture, Atkins is providing technical assistance to the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme in Nigeria, which will benefit up to three million people.
Atkins was named Consultancy of the Year in the CIBSE Low Carbon Performance Awards 2010; received the first ever certification of the Carbon Trust Standard awarded to an engineering consultancy in the construction sector; and was named among The Times Top 50 Companies Where Women Want to Work 2009 and The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2009. Atkins was also construction and civil engineering sector winner for the fifth consecutive year in the Target National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2010 and was awarded a RoSPA Gold Award 2010 for excellence in control of health and safety in the workplace.
Atkins is the official engineering design services provider for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.