A-Z of services and skills
Atkins employs thousands of specialists, working across a broad range of design and engineering disciplines. We’re the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
Browse the list below for examples of the services and skills we offer our clients. You can learn more in the “Our markets” and “Areas of business” sections of this website.
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A
Abstraction and discharge consents
Access and inclusive design
Access control systems
Acoustic design
Acoustics
AC systems
Acquisition strategies
Aerial mapping and land surveys
Air dispersion modelling
Airport/aviation systems (CUTE, FIDS, DCS etc)
Airport security systems
Air quality monitoring and assessment
Airworthiness
Anaerobic baffled reactors
Analysis and design assessment
Archaeological consultancy
Architectural design
Arts, public consultation and community engagement
Asset integrity
Asset management
Asset databases
Asset systems
Aviation regulations
Aerodrome safeguarding
Airfield pavement design
Airfield drainage systems
Apron planning
Auditing and verification
Availability, reliability and maintainability
B
Barrage design
Benefits analysis
Best Available Techniques (BAT) assessments
Biodiversity action plans
Biomass and waste-to-energy (renewables)
Biometrics
Biosolids and Other Organic Soil Treatments (BOOST) accreditation
Biosolids treatment disposal and use
Bridge engineering
Building design technology, research and development
Building services
Business case support
Blast and impact – design, analysis and assessment
BREEAM specialists and assessors
Bridge design, inspection, testing, monitoring, maintenance & repair
Brownfield redevelopment
Building acoustics and acoustic design
Building security systems
Building Management Systems (BMS)
Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM)
Business continuity planning
Business focussed maintenance
C
Cabling design
Canals
Capability management
Carbon capture and storage
Carbon management
Carbon price forecasting
CCTV
CCTV (rail)
CDM Co-ordinator
Chemical risks
CIDA (Defence Installation Design)
Civil engineering
Cladding design and consultancy
Climate change consultancy
Co-composting with induced shaft aeration
Coastal processes and modelling
Coastal protection
Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)
Command and control systems
Communications and IT (network and infrastructure)
Communications and IT (engineering)
Compulsory purchase (planning, landscape and heritage)
Consents and authorisations
Concept design
Conservation of historic buildings and monuments
Condition surveys
Contractual advice
Communication systems
Constructed wetlands
Contaminated land solutions
Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH)
Control rooms (security, CCTV)
Control centres
Converged networks (voice/data)
Corporate Social Reporting (CSR)
Cost management
Counter terrorism consultancy
CAFM
Commercial Auditing
Creative design and graphics (planning, landscape and heritage)
Crashworthiness
D
Dams and reservoirs
Data capture and management
Data networks (LAN WLAN< MAN WMAN)
DC systems
Decommissioning and abandonment (oil and gas)
Decommissioning reports (environment)
Defence CIDA installation design
Defence nuclear safety
Desalination
Design of coastal structures
Distribution networks (water)
District Meter Area (DMA) audit
Drainage and infrastructure
Drainage area assessments and plans
Depots
Document management systems
Diversionary works (telecom)
Drought management
Due diligence and regulation
E
Earthing and bonding
Ecology and biodiversity
Ecological impact assessment
Economics and sustainability (planning, landscape and heritage)
Electrification and plant distribution and power
ELV design
Electrical engineering
Electromagnetic compatibility
EMS audits
Endocrine disruptions
Energy and power planning and consents
Environment, health and safety training
Environmental auditing
Environmental assessment
Environmental briefings
Environmental consultancy
Environmental due diligence
Environmental impact assessments
Environmental impact (RF)
Environmental management
Environmental policy and strategy
Environmental reporting
Environmental risk assessment and risk management
Evidence tracking (forensic)
Environmental training
Ergonomics
Estate management
EU emissions trading
European Funded Projects
European Water Framework Directive consultancy
Evaluation of landfill gases
Expert opinion (interiors)
Explosive safety
Expert witnesses
ERTMS/ETCS
F
Façade engineering
Facilities engineering (oil and gas)
Facilities management
Fatigue and fracture mechanics
Fatigue and damage tolerance
Feasibility studies
Fibre network design
Finite element modelling
Fire engineering
Fire safety management system
Floating media filters (water)
Flood defences
Flood protection and risk management
Fluid dynamics
Fluid mechanics
Fluvial geomorphology
Food chain issues
Forensic evidence tracking
Forward maintenance planning
G
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Geo-environmental engineering
Geohazards and engineering geology
Geomaterials
Geospatial
Geotechnical and foundation engineering
GIS system design and implementation
Global warming potential
Groundwater monitoring
Groundwater remediation
Groundwater and water resource modelling
Graphic design services
GSM-R
H
Habitats creation and restoration
Habitats directive assessments
Health and Safety (SHE)
Heritage
Highways
Highway design and engineering
Highway asset management
Highway structures
Highway maintenance and operations
Historic landscape and townscape characterisation
Human health risk assessment
Human factors
Hazops
Helpdesks
Hydraulic structures
Hydroecology
Hydrographic surveys
Hydropower
Hydro (renewables)
I
Identity management systems
Incinerator health risk assessment
Independent systems engineering
Industrial water and wastewater treatment
Infrastructure (communications)
Integrated coastal zone Management (ICZM)
Integrated logistics support
Integrated natural and cultural heritage services
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
International performance benchmarking (water)
Internet mapping and web portals
Independent Safety Assessment (ISA)
Industrial design
Industrial IT
Industrial vibration
Information systems
Investigative services
Investment appraisal
IPPC
ITT development and assessment
IT security/INFOSEC telecoms
Information Systems (IS)
Interior design
IP telephony
IT systems design
J
Joint implementation and clean development mechanism
K
Knowledge management
L
Landfill health risk assessment
Land reclamation
Landscape architecture and urban design
Leachate monitoring
Leakage management
Legal and compliance audits (environment)
Licences and mitigation for protected species
Lifts and escalators
Lighting specialists
Light rail
Linear stress analysis
M
M&E engineering
Maintenance optimisation
Major project development
Management consultancy
Manufacturing execution systems
Marinas and harbours
Maritime structures
Marine renewable energy
Mass rapid transit
Masterplanning
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical rail vehicles
Merger and acquisition services
Metros and light rail
Metro signalling and control systems
Microbiological risk management
Microgeneration (renewables)
Microwave systems
Mines and quarries
Mine waters
Mining legacy and remediation
Model making (architectural)
N
Natural ventilation
Network design (telecoms)
Network security (telecoms)
Network infrastructure (telecoms)
Network maintenance (telecoms)
Network management (telecoms)
Next generation networks (telecoms)
Notified Body (NoBo)
Noise and vibration
Noise and vibration monitoring and insulation testing (environment)
Noise at work regulations
NoiseMap software
Non linear analysis
Nuclear environmental services
NRWSA notification
O
Obsolescence management
Occupational health
Odour assessments
Operational analysis and modelling
Orthophoto and DTM production
Outfalls (water)
Overhead line engineering
P
Passenger information systems
Pedestrian and crowd loading (engineering)
Pedestrian modelling
Performance benchmarking
Permanent way and survey
Phase 1 environmental audits
Phase 2 investigations
Photogrammetric scanning
Pipeline engineering
Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
Planning
Planning appeals and public inquiries
Planning applications
Planning appraisals
Planning for renewable energy
Planning policy development and research
Plant services
Plant enquiries (telecoms)
Points heaters
Ports and harbours
Power distribution
Power system modelling
Port engineering
Probabilistic safety assessment
Process engineering
Process simulation
Project management
Project risk assessment
Property asset management
Public health engineering
Public inquiry services
Q
Quay systems
R
Radio network design
Radiological risks and BPM/BPEO determination
Rail drainage
Rail operations
Railway systems
Railway training services
Rail vehicle performance and risk
Rail vehicles engineering design
Rail vehicles electrical engineering
Rail vehicles mechanical engineering
Rail vehicles schedules and standards
Regulatory frameworks (water)
Regulatory compliance (water)
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) (oil and gas)
Reliability-centred maintenance
Remediation strategies
Remote sensing
Remote technology
Renewables
Requirements analysis
Requirements engineering
Resignalling
Risk and reliability
Risk analysis and management
Risk assessments
River catchment planning
River modelling
River restoration
Road safety and risk management
Route planning
S
Safety cases
Safety critical systems
Safety engineering services
Safety and environmental protection (oil and gas)
Safety, health and environment
Safety management systems
Safety and reliability
Salt cavern engineering
Security design
Security system design
Security networks
Seismic engineering
Seismology
Seismic design, analysis and retrofit
Seismic hazard and earthquake engineering
SCADA systems (Telemetry, PLC)
Sewer system management and optimisation
Signalling and control systems development
Signalling design
Signalling installation, testing and commissioning
Signalling, mainline signalling and control systems
Signalling, metro signalling and control systems
Signal overrun assessments
Signalling projects
Site closure plans
Site investigations (soil and groundwater)
Site options viability analysis (planning, landscape and heritage)
Sludge treatment and disposal
SMS/EMS/IMS development
Software safety
Soil/structure interaction
Solar and geothermal (renewables)
Spatial analysis and modelling
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
Specialist dive surveys
Stack height calculations
Station design
Statutory searches
Stormwater
Strategies for engaging with communities
Stress analysis
Structural analysis
Structural assessments
Structural appraisals
Structural design
Structural dynamics
Structural engineering
Structures examinations
Structural monitoring
Structural surveys
Subsea engineering
Supply chain audit
Supply chain management
Supplier sourcing (procurement)
Supplier performance management
Surface water development
Surge analysis
Sustainability
Sustainable design
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
Systems engineering
Systems integration
Systems validation
T
Technical investigations
Technical audits
Technical due diligence
Test, evaluation and acceptance
Topographic surveys
Tourism and visitor strategies
Telecommunications systems
Telemetry systems
Telephony systems (PBX, VoIP)
Testing and installation
Thermal analysis
Thermal engineering
Through life costing
Through life management
Time, cost, performance evaluation
Timetable planning
Track work design
Training courses
Training needs analysis
Transport interchanges
Transport planning
Transport and works act procedures
Transport operations and safety
Transport surety
Tunnel design
Tunnels and underground space engineering
U
Underground gas storage
Urban conservation and historic townscape schemes
Urban light transit
V
Value management
Vehicle acceptance body
Vehicle design and industrial design
Vermiculture
Vibration and acoustic analysis
Vibration monitoring
3D visualisation and fly-throughs
Voice Over IP (VOIP)
W
Waste management
Wastewater discharge consents
Wastewater infrastructure
Wastewater networks
Waterside development
Water infrastructure
Water networks
Water quality
Water resource management
Water supply
Water treatment
World Heritage Site management
Wave and tidal (renewables)
Wheel slip protection
Wind (renewables)
Wind energy
Wind loading effects
Work order management
Wireless networks
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