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Keith Clarke named as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering – 12 July 2011

Keith Clarke has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. It is the peak of achievement in the engineering sector and a fitting honour as Keith prepares to stand down from his role leading Atkins to take up a new position as director of sustainability and chair of Atkins’ Middle East business.

Keith will retire from his position as chief executive of Atkins after eight years on 31 July 2011. He will be succeeded by Uwe Kruger, who has spent the majority of his career leading engineering and consulting organisations in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

See the Academy’s website for more information http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/default.htm

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Recent projects include:

  • Major infrastructure works, such as the design and programme management of the civil works for the Dubai Metro red and green lines in the UAE;
  • Key rail projects – providing architectural and engineering design services on Crossrail, Europe’s biggest civil engineering project in London, UK, and designing stations, tunnelling and track systems for Gautrain, South Africa’s first high speed line;
  • Renewable energy schemes - transformer platform design for the Thanet offshore wind park in the UK’s North Sea;
  • Multi-year architecture-engineering construction management services for the US National Park Service, including projects such as rehabilitation of the Furnace Creek Visitor Center and Administrative Complex at California’s Death Valley to meet the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification standards;
  • High profile transport planning and urban design – our innovative scheme to deliver a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus in London, UK, has helped tackle the problem of pedestrian crowding;
  • Water and environmental projects – critical programme management of storm protection works in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Southern Louisiana in North America, providing expertise in coastal restoration, engineering, environmental and GIS support to rebuild defenses and protect habitats;
  • Multidisciplinary building design – Northwood Primary School in Darlington, UK, is an exemplar project which raises standards for environmental design and community engagement.

Atkins was named among The Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For 2011, won Consultancy of the Year in the CIBSE Low Carbon Performance Awards 2010, received the first ever certification of the Carbon Trust Standard awarded to an engineering consultancy in the construction sector, and was included in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2011 and The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2010. Atkins was also construction and civil engineering sector winner for the fifth consecutive year in the Target National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2010 and was awarded a RoSPA Gold Award 2011 for excellence in control of health and safety in the workplace.

Atkins is the official engineering design services provider for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.