Atkins /Jacobs design joint venture awarded M74 completion contract - 07 March 2008
Atkins, in joint venture with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc, has been awarded the contract to design and provide construction services for the £445 million M74 Completion project in Glasgow, from Interlink M74 Joint Venture.
This five-mile project will complete a vital part of Scotland’s motorway network, and forms part of a major infrastructure investment in Scotland’s transport network. It will provide a through route from England to the West Coast of Scotland, bringing with it benefits of journey time reliability, improved accessibility, opening up new business opportunities and providing an integral part of the support infrastructure for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
As part of a Design Joint Venture with Jacobs, the companies will provide detailed design services under a design and construct contract to four major UK contractors who have formed a consortium to construct the project (Interlink M74 JV).
The project involves the construction of a four-lane urban highway through brownfield sites with significant highway, rail and river crossings. It includes the construction of 12 significant bridges including a 12 span 700m long steel composite launched bridge across the West Coast Mainline Railway. The project also includes major brownfield site remediation, ground improvements, large diameter piling and provision of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) all in a constrained urban site.
In making the announcement on behalf of the Design Joint Venture, Neil Thomas, managing director of Atkins’ Highways & Transportation business, said, “The two companies were delighted to be involved in one of the most prestigious highways projects ever to be delivered in Scotland which will complete a strategic link in the highway network and contribute significantly to the economic growth of central Scotland.”
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Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) plans, designs and enables the delivery of complex capital programmes for clients in the public and private sectors across the globe. Atkins is the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe; the largest engineering consultancy in the UK; and the world’s fifth largest design firm.
Atkins was named among the “20 Best Big Companies to Work For 2007’ by The Sunday Times; The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2007; and The Times Top 50 Companies Where Women Want to Work 2007. The company was also sector winner in the Target National Graduate Recruitment Awards for the second successive year in 2007.