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Atkins strikes again with £40m Surrey deal

09/11/2022

Surrey County Council has awarded Atkins a highways and infrastructure professional service contract worth more than £40m over five years.

Atkins wins £36m services deal in Bucks

27/10/2022

Buckinghamshire Council has awarded a contract worth around £36m to Atkins to provide design and professional services for the county’s highways.

Highways Heroes: Behavioural science for highways

07/01/2021

Dr Claire Williams, technical director, human sciences, intelligent mobility and smart technology at Atkins, looks at the Government’s response to COVID and finds three behavioural and human factors lessons we can apply to highways.

Analysis: What drives an industry to take a systems approach?

20/11/2020

Atkins' MD Highways, Peter Baynham, and chief engineer Ian Gibson explore the benefits that systems thinking would bring and what happens if we don’t do it.

The A14 story part 3: From two wheels to four legs

02/10/2020

The third in our series of exclusive behind-the-scenes briefings on the award winning A14 scheme from the team at Atkins tells how motorists, walkers, cyclists and horse-riders are all benefiting from the upgrade.

The A14 story part 2: Economy plus ecology

23/09/2020

The second in our series of exclusive behind-the-scenes briefings on the award winning A14 scheme from the team at Atkins. This week Highways hears about how a legacy of wildlife habitat innovations was achieved.

The A14 story: The team moves digital forward

16/09/2020

In the first of a series of articles from Atkins on its role in the award winning Highways England A14 scheme, the team discuss how their pioneering approach to digital technologies is a further legacy of the project.

The COVID acceleration?

06/07/2020

Necessity and great invention often go hand in hand. Peter Baynham, Atkins UK’s head of strategic highways, talks to Dominic Browne about remembering the lessons of the last few months and the positive changes for business.

Atkins in Wiltshire for the long-term with new deal

11/12/2019

Atkins has won a five-year highways consultancy framework contract to support Wiltshire Council’s long-term transport strategy.

Atkins sets out on the path to be a digital pioneer

18/06/2019

Emma Greedy reports from the Atkins’ new London headquarters near Victoria Station, where the global consultancy’s new president, Philip Hoare, said it is looking to ‘jump off the kerb’ and make a difference with its technology.

Stewart is the new queen at Atkins

10/01/2019

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has appointed Lizi Stewart as managing director of its UK and Europe transportation division.

Hear all about the FLOURISH CAV project on Talking Transport

25/10/2018

The latest in the series of popular Talking Transport podcasts discusses the human side of driverless cars by talking to key members of the FLOURISH

Talking Transport counts down to Copenhagen discussing future mobility

06/09/2018

With only a few days to go before the biggest ITS World Congress ever, taking place in Copenhagen from 17 to 21 September, this Talking Transport podcast looks ahead to some of the things going on and some of the main topics of debate and talks about an ITS success story. 

Talking Transport hears about VENTURER and World Congress

18/07/2018

The lessons learned from the three years of the VENTURER driverless car project in southwest England are the main topic of conversation in the latest Talking Transport podcast, along with a look ahead to the forthcoming ITS World Congress.

Acquisitions and MaaS on Wednesday’s World Congress podcast

03/11/2017

Day three of the ITS World Congress and the on the official World Congress podcast we talk to global industry leader SNC Lavalin about their

Mouchel/Atkins JV wins £4m HE spatial planning contract

23/05/2016

Mouchel Consulting, which is part of the Kier Group, has been awarded a £4 million four-year Highways England spatial planning contract in partnership with Atkins.

JV awarded £17.5m design contract for A303

14/01/2016

An Atkins/Arup joint venture has been appointed as design consultant for the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down in Wiltshire.  

Smart motorways investment for England announced

22/07/2015

Highways England has today appointed six joint-venture companies to design and build 10 smart motorways across England as part of a £1.5 billion investment.

Atkins and Hyder land Highways Agency tech deal

28/08/2014

Atkins, in partnership with Hyder, have been awarded a three-year contract by the Highways Agency to deliver specialist technical support to the seven Regional Control Centres (RCCs) across England.

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