Showcase of our highlights from 2017.

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Atkins’ End of Year Highlights 2017

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SNC-Lavalin completes acquisition of Atkins
The acquisition of Atkins by SNC-Lavalin Group in July
2017 marked an historic landmark in the 79-year history of
the company, as it became part of a truly global company
with an ambitious vision.
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Custom House
United Kingdom
We’ve collaborated to develop this award-winning
beacon for both Crossrail and the community.
Alternative construction methods, including pre-
fabricated and standardised components, minimised
work on site which resulted in reduced programme
time, lowering preliminary costs and the impact on
the local community.
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Marine Stations
Dubai, UAE
Inspired by Dubai’s heritage, our sustainable marine
transport station design will soon be seen along the recently
created Dubai Canal. It will provide transport links for up to
13 million passengers a year.
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Drone Flights
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
North America
The successful drone flights over Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport, the busiest airport in the world were an
aviation first. Seven drone flights were conducted, capturing
over 700 images to help us plan demolition and construction
whilst minimising effects on the airport’s daily activities.
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We’ve been appointed to our first offshore wind design
project in China and our designs for foundations at the UK’s
Dudgeon and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farms
have been realised this year. Our drive to help reduce the
cost of offshore wind took another step forward as we
began development of a new approach to optimising
offshore wind farms design with Aditazz.
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Continued innovation and growth in
offshore wind

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South Island Line
Hong Kong
Award-winning world-class railway network of five stations
along 7 km that places Hong Kong’s people and supporting
economic development at its heart. Our role was detailed
designer for a key section.
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Integrating digital
Three senior executive hires across the Group are
helping us to become the undisputed leader of digital
innovation in the industry, integrating digital into the
way we think, the way we work, and the services and
value we deliver to clients.
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Energy review
Kenya
Through an extensive door-to-door survey of over 10,000
homes across 44 counties of Kenya, we determined the
practices, behaviours, and attitudes towards renewable
energy and energy efficiency at a domestic level.
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Restoring Marshland
San Jacinto, North America
Identifying a beneficial use for dredge material unearthed
from expansions to docks, ports or other waterway projects
is a mission encouraged by the world’s leading dredging
associations. Using dredge material from a nearby dock
expansion, we helped restore a crucial intertidal habitat at a
historic Texas marsh.
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50 years in the region
Middle East
Helping realise our clients’ vision through the design and
delivery of the region’s most important projects such as the
Dubai Opera, Riyadh Metro, Burj Al Arab. Looking forward,
our culture of innovation and the use of disruptive digital
technologies helps us meet the technical challenges of our
most complex infrastructure projects.
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Our report uses our experiences, and insights and
opinions of industry leaders to explore the
opportunities and challenges faced by infrastructure
organisations as a result of the digital revolution. Our
research says that the appetite to embrace
opportunities is strong, but we need to overcome
aversion to risk.
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Cocobay Towers
Vietnam
We’ve designed a new architectural icon in Da Nang, the
third largest city in Vietnam. With a target of attracting 6.1
million visitors, Cocobay Towers is a 200 metre twin tower
development that aspires to be the entertainment
destination of Vietnam.
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North Avenue Smart Corridor
North America
Among the most congested cities in the U.S., Atlanta is
going high-tech to help solve its transportation challenges.
The North Avenue Smart Corridor is an innovative test of
smart city technologies, not in a lab or simulated
environment, but out on the streets. We are working in
partnership to assist both short- and long-term
transportation planning to create a safer and more efficient
place to live, work, and play.
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Using technology to drive innovation
We’ve partnered with several technology companies
this year. Together, we will achieve substantial cost
savings, improvements in asset reliability and
increased value from investment in infrastructure
assets.
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Reaching major milestones across our
nuclear business
During 2017, we’ve achieved significant steps
forward on several of our nuclear projects. Our
worldwide nuclear business deals with the most
technically complex challenges across the full
nuclear lifecycle.
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ERTMS
Denmark
We’re helping deliver the most important combined
upgrade in passenger and freight train services in
Europe. Spanning 3200km of the Danish rail
network, it promises a radical improvement in safety,
performance and capacity, opening the possibility of
running non-stop trains across all borders.
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Improving accessibility
United Kingdom
We’re part of a new consortium to develop a digital platform
to improve the rail travel experience for disabled
passengers in the UK. By sharing relevant information in
real-time between staff and passengers, it promises to
make journeys more seamless and reliable, reducing
passenger anxiety and stress and enhancing comfort.
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Bayshore Precinct
Singapore
With people at the heart of our design, our approach creates
diverse micro-communities tied together by pedestrian-
friendly connections. Bayshore Precinct in Singapore is a
standard-setter in healthy, liveable place-making.
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Two Rivers Mall
Kenya
Set to be the largest mall in sub-Saharan Africa outside of
South Africa, our design enables people to gather and
connect by creating spaces within the complex for both
intimate outings and multicultural events. A Kenya Vision
2030 flagship project, it has economic benefits by providing
employment opportunities for 10,000 Kenyans.
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Uniting for Dementia
UK & Europe
In its 70th year, Faithful+Gould launched 704SE7ENTY, its
first national charity initiative, seeing colleagues across the
UK and European offices cycling 7,000 miles in 70 days
raising £70,000 for The Alzheimer’s Society.
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Tomorrow’s leaders
United Kingdom
More than 350 graduates and apprentices have kick-started
their design, engineering and project management careers
by joining Atkins in the UK, with the company’s highest ever
proportion of female graduates and apprentices.
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