Atkins – Company Profile

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Atkins is the UK's largest engineering and design consultancy. We have the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects, none more urgent than creating a low carbon future. In fact, we're the first engineering consultancy to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in the construction and building management sector. In addition our Carbon Critical initiative gives businesses the world over the tools they need to cut their carbon effectively.

We don't just help our clients become more energy efficient. One of our own offices, The Hub in Bristol, has impressive sustainability credentials, rated 'Excellent' by the industry leading measure BREEAM.

Belfast sewer upgrade project
Like The Hub, everything we work on has a real impact on people's everyday lives. Take our pivotal role on Europe's largest engineering project, Crossrail, where we're designing everything from the 23km twin-bore tunnels beneath London to the look of Tottenham Court Road station.

We're also proud to be the engineering design expert behind London 2012. As the first official engineering design services provider to an Olympic Games, Atkins is leading the sector and will showcase the London 2012 Games as a feat of engineering excellence. It's exciting work - we'll be making sure the athlete shooting for the hoop to win gold in the basketball competition will be doing so in a structure that will do justice to the occasion. We'll be in charge of delivering the beach volleyball court that will transform Horseguards Parade. As the cyclists hurtle around the velodrome they'll be doing so above a bed of once heavily contaminated soil that our engineers helped clean.

Then there's the big one: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). It's one of the most ambitious science projects of our time and, as the architect engineer, Atkins will help create a device capable of generating ten times the power it consumes. And as we develop new technology, we'll continue to pioneer ways of harnessing the power of nature - like Anaconda, a 200-metre snake-like tube that creates energy by pulsing 50 metres under the sea.

Whether it's developing new infrastructures or finding new ways to power them, we plan, design and enable solutions for our world, now and long into the future.