Atkins is one of the world's leading providers of professional and technological consultancy services, employing over 18,000 staff across offices worldwide. They offer a wide range of geotechnical skills and services for projects such as airports, foundations, tunnels, slopes, and more. For further details on their capabilities, interested parties can email the provided contact.

1. What we can offer Key Contacts
Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technologically- For further details regarding our capabilities please email:
based consultancy and support services in the world. geotechnicalengineering@atkinsglobal.com
We employ over 18,000 staff throughout our offices worldwide. We are
well positioned to undertake a diversity of projects, with a multidisciplinary
team spread across a network of offices throughout the UK and overseas
in the Americas, Asia and South East Asia, Western Europe, Central and
Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
Geotechnical Skills & Services Geotechnical Engineering:
• engineering geology & geohazards
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environmental geotechnics
engineering geomorphology
Airports
• advanced geomechanics
• rock & soil slope stabilisation
• earthworks
• foundations & substructure engineering
• highways geotechnics
• rail geotechnics
• river & coastal geotechnics
• offshore geotechnics
• water supply & sewerage geotechnics
• nuclear geotechnics
• tunnel & shaft engineering
• due dilligence & expert witness
Office Locations
UK & Ireland
Our UK & Ireland offices include:
Aberdeen Crewe Haverfordwest Northampton St. Asaph
Altrincham Croydon Ipswich Nottingham Stockton-On-
Tees
Barking Cumbria Knutsford Oxford
Swansea
Belfast Derby Leeds Peterborough
Swindon
Birmingham Dublin London Plymouth
Taunton
Bristol Edinburgh Maidstone Pontypridd
Telford
Cambridge Epsom Manchester Reading
Warrington
Cardiff Exeter Newcastle- Sale
under-Lyme Warwick
Chelmsford Gillingham Scunthorpe
Newcastle- Winchester
Chippenham Glasgow Upon-Tyne Sheffield
York
Colwyn Bay Gloucester Southampton
Plan Design Enable
Newport
Cork Havant

2. Project Experience Project Experience Project Experience
Directional Drilling, RAF Stanbridge Sheikh Isa Airbase, Bahrain Terminal 5 Access and M25 motorway widening,
Heathrow Airport
Atkins was appointed by Anglian Water to design a sewage pumping Construction of the 4.1km long runway and adjacent taxiways of the
station and rising mains. Our geotechnical expertise was called upon to Sheikh Isa Airbase entailed large cut and fill operations which were Investigation and geotechnical design of the complex network of new
assist with the evaluation of directional drilling for the pipeline system. the subject of a multi-million US dollar contractual dispute. Atkins was and upgraded highways needed to serve the proposed Terminal 5 and to
commissioned to provide expert opinion on engineering geological, provide increased capacity for the adjacent M25 motorway.
geotechnical and materials handling issues as part of the arbitration
Manchester Airport, Second Runway proceedings.
Our work included a review of the technical basis of the dispute (in the London City Airport - extension
Design and construction supervision of a new 3km runway, taxi-ways USA, UK and Bahrain) followed by a programme of field investigation
and holding bays, a 260m long cut and cover highway tunnel for the and laboratory testing which was carefully targeted to provide additional Geotechnical study for a proposed extension to London City Airport.
A538, and a 12m high 300m long tunnel to permit the River Bollin to data from which independent conclusions could be drawn. Work included a review of historical ground investigation data and
pass under the new runway. Major earthworks included a 2 million production of a report summarising geotechnical constraints.
cubic metres embankment, 25m high across the Bollin Valley. We were
designers to the successful AMEC-Tarmac Joint Venture.
St Helena Airport, Atlantic Ocean
Notable aspects of our work were the geotechnical and foundation risk Cargo Handling Building, Heathrow Airport
Access to St Helena Island is currently only possible by a lengthy boat
assessment carried out as an aid to tendering, and the combination of
journey from South Africa or Ascension Island (the photograph below Site investigation and geotechnical design for the cargo building involved
traditional and more advanced design techniques which resulted in an
shows the island’s capital, Jamestown). Following a government a carefully optimised programme of work on the ‘air-side’ of the airport.
optimised design for the embankments and tunnels.
decision to provide an airport on the island, Atkins was commissioned
to undertake initial and reference designs in advance of the award of a
design, build and operate contract for the airport.
We carried out geotechnical investigations and designs for the airport’s
runway, terminal and cross-country access road, integrating our work
with that of the airport engineers, construction logistics specialists
and environment team.