Climate Change News
Read the latest issue of our Water & Environment Solutions Magazine. This latest issue includes a number of very topical areas, namely sustainable development in regeneration, complex infrastructure projects, carbon footprinting and corporate sustainability to meeting targets in waste management.
The time has come to move from worthy discussion about climate change to action, according to Atkins chief executive Keith Clarke.
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Atkins is lead sponsor and speaker at the EIC Climate Change Bill: Implications for Business Conference.
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Atkins has been voted the Best Environmental Consultancy for 2007 by clients and consultants in the environment industry. It is the third consecutive year that Atkins has won the top prize.
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A report written by Atkins experts calling for review of London’s existing transport infrastructure to plan for climate change, has been awarded the prestigious ICE James Hill Prize.
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Low carbon design will ride out the economic downturn, Atkins’ environmental management specialist Tony Iles told a forum at Ecobuild, the world’s biggest event dedicated to sustainable design, construction and the built environment.
Atkins has today (6 April) launched a comprehensive suite of tools which will help organisations make decisions on how to reduce carbon – both embodied and operational – and influence their design choices.
A major feature in today’s New Civil Engineer (NCE) marks the launch of a campaign to educate the engineering and design professions in the run up to Copenhagen's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in December.
Atkins has capped an extraordinary fortnight of achievement after winning three major industry awards at two events – taking its tally of awards won in the last two weeks to seven.
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has appointed Atkins as the official engineering design services provider for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The company will provide multidisciplinary engineering design consultancy for the temporary venues and overlay that LOCOG is providing within London and across the country for the Games. Under the tier three deal, Atkins will also have exclusive rights in the engineering design sector to London 2012 marks.
The low carbon white paper issued by the government (last week) presents the engineering sector with the greatest opportunity for growth since the industrial revolution, says Keith Clarke, chief executive of the UK’s biggest engineering design consultancy, Atkins.
Atkins’ Carbon Critical Design journey is centre-stage in today’s Financial Times, with chief executive Keith Clarke spelling out why the engineering sector has to raise its game in working out ways of adapting to a low carbon economy.
The infrastructure design works for the Atkins’ designed Parc Cybi development in Holyhead, Wales, have achieved the highest ever rating in the UK for sustainability and environmental quality.
Atkins is taking a leading role at this year’s Ecobuild, the world’s biggest event dedicated to sustainable design, construction and the built environment. Attended by the most influential and highly-regarded figures from across the industry, Atkins will have six of its experts speaking at the event.
Atkins has been awarded a two-year extension to the framework contract under which it supports the Environment Agency’s national flood and coastal risk management and water resources capital works programmes.