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