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News and analysis
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Housing
Atkins launches new business to reimagine social housing delivery
A new housing business will prioritise brownfield and under-utilised land within existing communities.Read more -
Carbon reduction
How much is too much? Planning’s role in reducing carbon emissions
Why radical controls are needed in the planning system to encourage carbon reduction.Read more -
Digital infrastructure
Meet the infrastructure game changers
Atkins engineers are using big data, lean methodologies and agile practices to find new solutions to old problems.Read more -
Airports
Taoiseach opens new Atkins-designed runway at Ireland West Airport
Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar praised project partners as third longest runway is opened in Ireland.Read more -
High Speed Rail
High-speed rail - a powerful economic tool
Despite current uncertainties, high-speed rail offers UK plc a real shot in the arm if approached strategically.Read more -
Diversity
Diversity is a journey, says Atkins' head of HR
Diversity and inclusion in the infrastructure sector needs to be about diversity of thinking as much as it is about diversity of people.Read more -
Digital infrastructure
Securing digital transport networks means action needs taking now
The growing importance of cyber security means that addressing digital risk is a business-critical issue.Read more -
Technology
Seeing is believing - using digital technology to protect your assets
How digital image correlation technology can protect your assets.Read more -
Digital railway
Game-changing lessons from Denmark
Denmark's national rail signalling programme offers some key lessons for the global rail sector.Read more -
Design
Better building design worth £20bn to GDP
New research carried out by Atkins and Imperial College has found buildings more thoughtfully designed around people's needs could improve performance and help to tackle the UK's productivity gap.Read more -
Company news
Atkins’ turnover breaks through the £2bn mark
Atkins records strong set of results ahead of its takeover next month.Read more -
Middle East
Atkins works with US Army Corps of Engineers on Middle East infrastructure
Atkins is assisting the US Army Corps of Engineers on a range of infrastructure projects around the Arabian Gulf.Read more -
Company news
Atkins agrees £2.1bn takeover by SNC-Lavalin
Canadian firm buys Atkins for £2.1bn to create mega-firm with 53,000 staff.Read more -
Business
SNC-Lavalin in line to buy Atkins for £2.1bn
The Atkins board has indicated it will recommend its shareholders accept an offer from Canada's SNC-Lavalin, subject to conditions.Read more -
Budget
Budget reaction: Low expectations and not much to get excited about
Phillip Hammond's Budget has been greeted with disappointment by industry leaders.Read more -
Electric vehicles: pointless without green energy
A new report by Atkins is calling on joined up thinking in green transport and energy policiesRead more -
Skills
Designing playgrounds to inspire STEM careers
Atkins has teamed up with Dream Networks to inspire school children through the task of designing playgrounds for disadvantaged communitiesRead more -
Cyber security
Cyber security in a nuclear world
A cyber-attack on a nuclear facility could have devastating effects and increasing digitisation of facilities makes such an attack more likely.Read more -
Water
Water sector exuding a more secure hue
The regulated water companies and their suppliers are now delivering a sixth five-year cycle of capital investment. For a health check on the sector, Jon Masters grabbed 10 minutes with Atkins’ market director for water Graham Hunt.Read more -
Autumn Statement
A lot to interest the infrastructure sector
Notwithstanding difficult economic headwinds, there was still a lot to interest the infrastructure sector in the Autumn Statement.Read more