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Ground Engineering Awards 2013
Atkins won the top honour of Consulting Firm of the Year at the annual GE Awards.

Constructing Excellence in the North East Awards 2013
Faithful+Gould was jointly named Consultancy Practice of the Year.

Construction Week Oman Awards 2013
Atkins was named Construction Week Oman's Consultant of the Year.

NCE/ACE Consultants of the Year 2013
Atkins was highly commended in the New Civil Engineer Global Consultant of the Year Awards, which recognises outstanding business performance by civil engineering consultancies.

London Planning Awards 2013
Atkins, alongside LDA Design, Hargreaves Associates and Arup, won the Mayor's Award for Planning Excellence for the London 2012 Olympic Park.

Construction Week Awards 2012
Atkins was recognised as Consultant of the Year for its outstanding contribution to the Middle East’s built environment sector.

MEP Awards 2012
We were named MEP Consultancy of the Year 2012.

Construction Week Qatar Awards 2012
Atkins was named Construction Week Qatar's Consultant of the Year.

British Construction Industry Awards 2012
The London 2012 Olympic Park was awarded the Special Judges' Award.

Building Awards 2012
Faithful+Gould was named Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (100+ staff) at the Building Magazine Awards.

The Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For 2013
Atkins ranked as one of The Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2013.

The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2013
Atkins was listed as one of the top companies putting gender diversity at the heart of their business strategies.

The Guardian UK 300 2013/14
We were ranked in The Guardian's list of the UK's top graduate employers.

TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2013
Atkins won the award for Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in the construction, engineering and surveying sector.

Thomas Company of the Year 2013
Thomas International recognised our use of the PPA recruitment and development tool in our Swedish business, naming us Company of the Year.

The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2012
We were ranked as one of The Times' top graduate employers in the UK.

CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Awards 2013
The Olympic Park parklands and public realm won the Landscape award as well as being highly commended in the Water Resources & Water Environment category. It was also awarded the Eric Hughes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Sustainability in Civil Engineering.

CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Awards 2013
Farringdon Station, designed by Atkins, won the Ecology & Biodiversity award, as well as being highly commended in the Historic Environment category.

CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Awards 2013
Atkins along with others won both the Project Management and the Land Use awards for the M25 Widening project.

CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Awards 2013
The M74 Completion project, designed by a Jacobs/Atkins joint venture, won the Material Use award.

Sustain Magazine Awards 2013
Atkins and others won the Public Realm award for the Olympic Park. Atkins also won the Communications award with the UK Green Building Council for the London 2012 Sustainability Lessons Learned series.

American Public Works Association Awards 2013
Atkins' Timber Lake Stormwater System in Tallahassee won the Environmental Project of the Year from the APWA Florida Chapter.

California AEP Outstanding Award 2012
We received the Outstanding Award in the Environmental Analysis Documents category from the California Association of Environmental Professionals for the San Diego County General Plan EIR.

California AEP Merit Award 2012
We received the Merit Award in the Climate Change Documents category from the California Association of Environmental Professionals for the City of Escondido Draft Climate Action Plan.

Climate Change Business Journal Business Achievement Awards 2012
Atkins was awarded the Energy & Carbon Management Silver Award for the Engineering & Consulting category, for its work on the San Bernardino County Greenhouse Gas Screening Tables.

ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins received an Award of Merit for the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II EIR. This report was essential to the planning for the remediation of a Superfund site into a thriving residential community.

Environment and Energy Awards 2012
Atkins and Gloucestershire County Council won the Innovation Award for Environmental Technology.

Carbon Trust Standard
In 2010 Atkins received the first ever certification of the Carbon Trust Standard to an engineering consultancy in the construction and building sector, and was recertified in 2012.

Landscape Institute Awards 2012
Atkins in partnership with LDA Design, Hargreaves Associates and Arup won the President's Award for their work on the London 2012 Olympic Park.

National Landscape Awards 2012
Atkins in partnership with LDA Design, Hargreaves Associates and Arup won the Principal Award for work on the London 2012 Olympic Park.

RoSPA Occupational Health & Safety Awards 2012
Atkins' UK business received a Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Award.

RoSPA Diamond Jubliee Award 2012
To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubliee, the London 2012 Big Build project was presented with a special award for outstanding and exemplary health and safety achievements.

Environment Agency Project Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins won the H&S/Managing Environmental Risk award for the Shaldon and Ringmore Tidal Defence Scheme.

ABC Safety Star Award 2012
Peter Brown Construction was awarded a Safety Star Award from the Associated Builders & Contractors Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, which recognises outstanding safety programmes.

APWA Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins was recognised for designing safety improvements at two Tallahassee intersections.

CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2013
Atkins won the Collaborative Working award for its work on the London 2012 project.

Irish Building & Design Awards 2013
The International Engineering Project of the Year was awarded to Atkins Ireland and colleagues in the UK to commend their work on the London 2012 project.

World Travel Awards 2013
The Atkins-designed Yas Waterworld in Abu Dhabi won the award for Middle East's Leading Tourist Attraction.

RICS South West & Wales Awards 2013
Faithful+Gould won the Best Regeneration Project award for the North Prospect regeneration programme in Plymouth, UK.

Arab Towns Organization Award 2013
The Atkins-designed Dubai Metro won this award in recognition of the contribution it has made to Dubai and the wider region.

CMAA San Diego Chapter Awards 2013
Ruocco Park in San Diego won the Award of Excellence from the Construction Management Association of America San Diego Chapter. Atkins was construction manager on the project.

Georgia Engineers Week Awards 2013
The Atkins-engineered Maynard Holbrook Jackson Junior International terminal roadway at Atlanta International Airport won the Grand Prize for Engineering Excellence.

MEP Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Yas Waterworld was named Overall GCC Project of the Year for its bespoke MEP design.

National Dementia Care Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed West Hall care home in Surrey, UK won the Best Interior award.

American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins won the Grand Award from ACEC of Tennessee for its engineering of repairs to Runway 05-23 at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington.

American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins received an Honor Award for the Fort Belvoir 4D Model and Web Portal.

WWA Leading Edge Award 2012
The Atkins-designed Yas Waterpark, Abu Dhabi was presented with the Leading Edge Award by the World Waterpark Association.

Irish Landscape Awards 2012
The Irish Landscape Institute awarded Atkins the Public Realm award for the Metals Project, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.

Construction Week Oman Awards 2012
The Glorei Muttawar project, a residential development by Atkins and Faithful+Gould, secured the Innovative Energy Project of the Year award.

American Society of Civil Engineers Awards 2012
The East-West Connector project in Lakeland, Florida, won the Project of the Year award. Atkins provided engineering consultancy.

Austin Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Awards 2012
Atkins was named Overall Winner in the Austin Business Journal’s Commercial Real Estate Awards for designing the Frank Fickett Scout Training and Service Center for the Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Institution of Civil Engineers North West Civil Engineering Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Media City Footbridge in Manchester, UK, won the Large Project award.

American Planning Association Awards 2012
Atkins was co-winner of the Outstanding Federal Planning Project from the Federal Planning Division of the APA for the creation of the Fort Belvoir 4D VIS Planning Portal.

Global Traveler Annual Reader Survey Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Address Hotel, Downtown Dubai was named Best Hotel in the World.

British Council for School Environment Awards
Atkins was named Education Consultant of the Year at the 2012 British Council for School Environments (BCSE) Awards.

RICS Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Northwood Primary School won the Design & Innovation category at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards.

MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2013
OCTAL’s petrochemical complex expansion project in Oman - a joint Atkins and Faithful+Gould project - won three awards: National Oil & Gas Project of the Year (Oman), Sustainability Project of the Year and GCC Oil & Gas Project of the Year.

NDA Estate Supplier Awards 2013
ACKtiv Nuclear Joint Venture (comprising Jacobs, Carillion and Atkins) won the award for Best Example of Innovation by a Large Company for a project at Sellafield.

American Public Works Association Colorado Awards 2013
The Atkins-managed Milton E. Proby Parkway was named Engineering/Construction Management Project of the Year by APWA Colorado Chapter.

Federal Highway Administration Awards 2013
The Alaska Federal Lands Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) was awarded the Administrator’s Strive for Excellence Honor Award. Atkins played a major role in the project.

MEP Qatar Awards 2012
Atkins won the Project of the Year award for its rail and metro projects, including the Lusail Light Rail Transit System in Qatar.

Peterborough City Council Development & Environment Awards 2012
Atkins and Balfour Beatty won the Best Highway Infrastructure Project award for Junction 8, Frank Perkins Parkway, Peterborough, UK.

American Concrete Pavement Association Gold Award 2012
Atkins’ Design Package 1 for the Tulsa International Airport Runway 18L-36R received the Gold Award in the Commercial Airports category from the Oklahoma-Arkansas Chapter of the ACPA.

Prudential-Davis Productivity Award 2012
An Atkins/Florida DOT District Six team won one of these annual awards for the study 'Streamlined Process and Increased Revenues from Excess Property'.

Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Design Award 2012
Atkins won the Design Award for the 5,285-ft-long Terminal Roadway at the Maynard H. Jackson Jr. Terminal of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

FICE Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins’ Courtney Campbell Causeway Interchange project for the Florida Department of Transportation District 7 was recognised with a Grand Award.

MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2012
The Atkins-designed Dubai Metro Green Line won both the Transport Project of the Year award and the Sustainable Project of the Year award for the UAE.

American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins won a National Recognition Award for designing a three-level directional interchange at the intersection of Courtney Campbell Causeway and Veterans Expressway in Florida.

ACEC/MW Engineering Excellence Awards 2013
The Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant, designed and engineered by Atkins, won an Honor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Metropolitan Washington.

ENR Best Projects 2012
The Atkins-designed Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant won Engineering News-Record's Best Civil Works/Infrastructure Project award for the Mid-Atlantic region.

ASCE San Diego Awards 2012
Atkins won the Outstanding Award in the Utility category for the Olivenhain and Coast Highway 101 Sewer Force Mains.

ASCE San Diego Awards 2012
Atkins won the Excellence Award in the category of Wastewater Collection and Treatment for engineering a new wastewater pump station for Del Mar, California.

Arizona Water Association Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Wastewater System Expansion Program of Lake Havasu City, Arizona won Project of the Year in the Wastewater Systems category. Atkins handled engineering and construction management for the new city-wide sewer system.

Environment Agency Project Excellence Awards 2012
Atkins won the Project Management award for the Romney 'A' Weir in Windsor, UK.

Institution of Civil Engineers North West Civil Engineering Awards 2012
The Atkins-designed Cockermouth Flood Scheme won the Community award.

Green Apple Built Environment Awards 2012
GCA (a joint venture between Atkins and Galliford Try) won a Silver Award for work on the High Lane Service Reservoir in Stockport, UK.

APWA Ventura County Awards 2012
The Ventura County (California) Watershed Protection District received the Project of the Year Award for the Atkins-designed Santa Clara River Bendway Weir Field project.

APWA San Diego/Imperial Awards 2012
Atkins won the Public Works Project of the Year award from the San Diego/Imperial Chapter of the American Public Works Association for engineering a new wastewater pump station for Del Mar, California.

Construction Week Oman Awards 2013
Managing director of Oman Matthew Squires was named Construction Executive of the Year.

ASCE Ridge Branch Young Engineer of the Year Awards 2013
Atkins' Manny Monreal was named Young Engineer of the Year by the Ridge Branch (Florida Section) of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Scottish Asian Women's Association Awards 2013
Atkins' Iram Mohammed was named Scottish Asian Woman of the Future at the inaugural SAWA Awards, recognising her achievements in her profession and in breaking down professional barriers.

Florida Engineering Society Miami Awards 2013
Atkins' project manager Victor Herrara was named Miami's Young Engineer of the Year.

Central Florida Engineers Week Awards 2013
Vice president David Deans won the Lifetime Achievement in Engineering award from Central Florida Engineers Week.

Society of Professional Engineers Southern Nevada Awards 2013
Group manager Harshal Desai was named Southern Nevada's Young Engineer of the Year.

Cogent and National Skills Academy for Nuclear Awards 2013
Atkins' Dave Whitmore was presented with the award for Outstanding Leadership in Skills.

MEP Awards 2012
Atkins' Lee Hall was named Project Manager of the Year 2012.

Queen's Birthday Honours 2012
Atkins' London 2012 project manager Martyn Lass was awarded and MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the construction industry.

Royal Academy of Engineering
Atkins' technical director Chris Hendy was awarded a Silver Medal in 2012 for achieving significant commercial success in the field of structures, and in recognition of advancing the cause of engineering in the UK.

Subsea UK Awards 2012
Atkins' Jerry Baker won the Society for Underwater Technology Merit Award for outstanding contribution to the subsea industry.

Society of Professional Engineers Beaver County Awards 2012
Senior project manager Brian Harsh was named Engineer of the Year by the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers Beaver County Chapter.

Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards 2012
Project architect Michael Bool was named Young Achiever of the Year.

Central Florida Engineers Week Awards 2012
Senior management consultant Michele Mingoia won the Lifetime Achievement in Engineering award from Central Florida Engineers Week.

Institute of Healthcare Engineering & Estate Management Annual Awards 2012
Atkins' Graeme Dunn won the IHEEM's Northcroft Silver Medal for outstanding contribution to the advancement of healthcare engineering.

Florida Engineering Society Myakka Awards 2012
Senior engineer Jarviette Velez won the local award for Outstanding Service to the Engineering Profession from the Florida Engineering Society's Myakka Chapter.

Television for the Environment Awards 2012
Atkins' film 'Park Voices' about local environment conservation on the London 2012 Olympic Park project, made in collaboration with Hackney Borough Council, won the award for Best Environment Film.

Texas Historical Commission Award of Merit 2012
Atkins received the Award of Merit for archeological work in preserving Texas culture at the site of the former town of Headsville in Robertson County, Texas.