Search Results: 'Atkins'

Atkins scoops Riyadh work
11 October, 2013
Atkins was awarded a GBP 75M (USD 120M) lead design contract for three of the six lines of the Riyadh Metro. Atkins announced that the company would lead a design joint venture with Spanish consultancy Typsa – the FAST consortium of FCC, Samsung, Alstom, Strukton and Freyssinet. The JV was made responsible for lines four, five and six.

Atkins creates HSR chair and plans test track bed
07 October, 2013
Consultant Atkins has appointed Peter Woodward as its first chairman of high-speed rail engineering for the UK. Woodward is professor of railway geotechnical engineering and head of the Institute for Infrastructure an Environment at Heriot-Watt University.

Station to connect Doha Metro with GCC railway network
06 June, 2013
A large railway station ‘of international standards’ will be built on the outskirts of Doha as part of Qatar’s rail project, work on which has started in different parts of the city.

Copenhagen copes
28 February, 2013
Alex Conacher speaks to Guy Taylor, project director of client Metroselskabet, and Soren Eskesen, head of Cityringen tunnelling for the client, and chair of the Danish Tunnel and Underground Works Association for this update from site, and a new project offshoot, as the first machine arrives in port and site preparations draw to a close

Opportunity rocks
27 December, 2012
Hong Kong develops into the main base of operations for the Asia Pacific, while Singapore strives to become to hottest destination for professionals, and both scrap for skilled labour. Alex Conacher speaks to three expats

Leaks keep Gautrain link closed
02 May, 2012

Rock cavern design on the West Island Line
19 April, 2012
In 2011 two new underground stations on the West Island Line were under construction beneath dense urban areas. Only one MTR station rock cavern, Taikoo, had been constructed before, and in a much less challenging area. This paper by Eric Chui and Paul Lee of Atkins China, and Robert Mackean of Geo-Design Consulting Engineers, presents in outline the design concepts for Sai Ying Pun and Hong Kong University station caverns with site constraints, ground conditions and concept selection

Bond Street boasts new remote sensor
11 April, 2012

HS2 preliminary design contracts awarded
11 April, 2012

ERM leads HS2 environment consortium
29 March, 2012

Atkins Danish rail upgrade
07 March, 2012

Breakthrough at Lai Chi Kok main tunnel
05 January, 2012

World’s longest structure jack
26 December, 2011
The world’s longest jacked structure forms a highway underpass beneath a road-rail crossing that sits on unreliable Thanet Sands. Alex Conacher reports from site

Dynamism of the East
22 August, 2011
Running along the fiery Asia Pacific coast are some of the most explosive tunneling markets in the world. Hong Kong is booming, Japan is storming ahead in innovation, Malaysia is clamping down on corruption and Singapore is a hot bed of activity. Alex Conacher tries to keep up

Perforating the Pacific
13 June, 2011
Fairytale projects are being put to tender. Underground defences against drought and flooding, surface to seabed drives through magnificent artificial islands and socio-economic unity through high-speed rail. The tunnelling industry in South East Asia refuses to be eclipsed by the mammoth markets in India and China. Alex Conacher explores the latest trends

Poyry focuses on renewables
07 June, 2011

Aecom appoints new European chief executive
13 January, 2011

Jet fans: Removing non-conservatism from the CFD modeling
14 December, 2010
The authors, Marco Buonfiglioli, Ian Cowan and Stig Ravn, all of Atkins, Epsom, England, presented a poster at the ISTSS event in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, earlier this year on an improved approach to jet fan performance modelling. This is the full paper

Crossrail and Bond Street
09 February, 2010

New ticket hall opens at Kings Cross
05 January, 2010