1. Careers in Environmental Consultancy
University of Birmingham – My Future World
October 2012
Iain McBurnie – Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant
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2. Outline My Career Atkins – A large consultancy at a glance How We Work
How a typical large Consultancy is set up
Where We Work
Our Clients
Recognition
Potential Career Routes
Atkins Environmental Engineering – What do we do?
Typical Job Specification
Types of Project Work
Q&A Session

3. My Career
Completed a BSc(Hons) in Environmental Management with a Sandwich year in industry
Start working for Jacobs and move to Hyder Consulting with responsibility for site supervision
As my career develops I become involved in more complex project culminating in the Olympic Park, at this juncture I joined Atkins
I have now worked at Atkins for 5 years. Involved in the M74 and Olympics and now Project manager with financial responsibilities for projects in excess of £1.5million fees and for junior staff etc.

4. Atkins at a glance
Atkins is one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies.
We have the depth and breadth of technical expertise to respond both to the complex challenges of major infrastructure projects, and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.

5. Our work Plan Design Enable
The challenges facing our clients are multidimensional, often because of the increasingly complex modern environment. From cost and risk planning, feasibility studies and logistics, to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity, we plan every aspect of our clients’ projects
Design
Atkins designs intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. We also design physical structures such as office towers, schools, bridges and highways. Whatever we design, we apply the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards.
Enable
Our clients choose Atkins because they want to focus on their core operations. They entrust us to look after the management of projects, people and issues – ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled and success is delivered. 5

6. Our businesses worldwide
Atkins UK
Europe
Middle East
North
America
Asia Pacific
Energy
Defence, Aerospace,
Communications
Denmark
Saudi Arabia
Design and Engineering
India
Asia Pacific
Norway
Qatar
China
Europe
Water and Environment
Design and Engineering
Ireland
UAE
Hong Kong
Middle East
Highways and Transportation
Highways and Transportation
Ireland
Poland
Kuwait
Faithful+Gould
North America
Faithful+Gould
Management Consultants
Portugal
Bahrain UK
Sweden
Oman
Peter Brown Construction
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Note: This chart depicts Atkins’ businesses around the world, it is not a management structure.
Rail
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Water and Environment
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7. United Kingdom
Our areas of operation include water, environment, education, aerospace, defence and infrastructure design as well as significant activity in transportation.

8. Our clients Key clients include: Network Rail
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)
Environment Agency
Transport for London
Gloucestershire County Council
Airbus
Northumbrian Water
CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd
Highways Agency
Rolls Royce BP
Nakheel
Learning & Skills Council
Ministry of Defence
British Energy
MTR Corporation
HBOS
PacifiCorp
Department for Work and Pensions
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9. Recognition

10. Potential Career Routes

11. Environmental Engineering – What Do We Do?
Regeneration
Highways
Bridges
Rail
Mining
Flooding
Contamination
Ecology

12. Typical Graduate Job Specification
Job Description
The Atkins Land & Development division is a multidisciplinary environmental team. The Birmingham Geo-environmental Engineering team is seeking a graduate environmental geologist or engineering geologist to assist in its workload of investigating, assessing and remediating/regenerating contaminated sites for redevelopment.
This is an excellent opportunity for a graduate who is seeking a stimulating career with geo-environmental bias. The successful applicant should be stimulated by fresh challenges and seek to surmount them in a practical way. The applicant must be planning to work towards chartered status. The successful candidate will be a dynamic, logical, practical and enthusiastic geo-environmental engineer with good interpersonal and communication skills. Applicants must have a sound knowledge of contaminated land.
Role and Responsibilities
The role will require work on geo-environmental elements of projects on commercial/industrial developments, brownfield regeneration and closed landfills for both public and private sector clients. Project time is likely to be split between office and site work, throughout the UK and overseas. Flexibility to travel and work away from home, sometimes for extended periods of site work, will be essential and this may include overseas projects.
The responsibilities (following a suitable level of training and supervision) will include preparing desk study reports, designing ground investigations, preparing specifications, drawings and ground investigation contracts, supervising contaminated land ground investigations, laboratory test scheduling and preparing factual and interpretative reports including conceptual site models.
The candidate must have some knowledge of site and ground investigation techniques and/or contaminated land risk assessment.
The Individual
The successful candidate will;
Be a graduate, having successfully completed a degree course (BSc) and associated Masters in engineering geology or environmental geology.
Complement the existing team.
Be capable of working independently as well as within the team.
Be a logical, practical and enthusiastic person with very strong problem solving skills.
Be able to show how they are developing their own knowledge in technical aspects.
Have a good technical understanding of geology, site investigation works, ground engineering and contaminated land.
Have a very good understanding of the impacts of geo-environmental works upon development.
Be considering a route towards chartered status with a relevant institution (CGeol, CEnv or CIWEM).
Have excellent oral and written communication skills.

13. A small selection of our projects from around the world
Types of Project Work
A small selection of our projects from around the world 13

14. London 2012 Games Olympic Park
Multidisciplinary engineering infrastructure design, project managing enabling works,
site clearance and remediation,
environmental impact assessment
FOR USE IN UK ONLY.
Contract:
Consultant for the design of the Olympic Park and site wide infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Client:
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)
Description:
Atkins has been appointed as part of the team to take forward the design of the Olympic Park infrastructure. The work streams with which we are involved include landscape and public realm, utilities, security, waterways, drainage, roads and bridges. We are working in consultation with other appointed consultants, statutory authorities, contractors, and ODA delivery partners to ensure that the Olympic Park works are completed to cost and programme. We are leading the design for the enabling and remedial works, coordinating utility services design for the Olympic Park and completing detail design of services for the north site. We are undertaking scheme and detailed design for the loop road and secondary roads in the north of the Olympic Park together with scheme and detailed design of the perimeter public highways including the A12 and Ruckholt Road. We are also in close relationship with the Stratford City development to coordinate the highway approach across both projects and are designing a number of bridge structures on site.

15. Dubai Metro United Arab Emirates
Full multidisciplinary design,
design coordination of civil works including geotechnical & site investigations and construction supervision
Name of project:
Dubai Metro
Location:
Dubai, UAE
Services provided by Atkins:
Full multidisciplinary design, design coordination of civil works including geotechnical & site investigations and construction supervision
What: Atkins provided full multidisciplinary design, design coordination of civil works including geotechnical and site investigations, and construction supervision of tracks, underground stations and maintenance depots.
The Atkins solution: The Dubai Metro is currently regarded as the world's largest transport infrastructure project under construction. It will be the longest automated, driverless system in the world and will ease traffic congestion by improving mobility throughout Dubai. A key challenge has been to integrate the specialist skills from Atkins' international offices to work with our local presence on this tightly programmed project. (

16. M25 DBFO United Kingdom Connect Plus, a consortium comprising
Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Atkins and Egis Projects, has been appointed to design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) the M25 project
Name of Project:
M25 DBFO
Location:
United Kingdom

17. Galloper Wind Farm Offshore Substation Platform United Kingdom
Structural, utilities, electrical,
architectural, safety engineering,
mechanical, piping design and telecoms
Name of project:
Galloper Wind Farm Offshore Substation Platform
Location: UK
Services provided by Atkins:
Structural, utilities, electrical, architectural, safety engineering, mechanical, piping design and telecoms
What:
Atkins’ carried out the detailed design of the topsides for the Galloper Wind Farm Offshore Substation Platform with the complete topsides expected to be in the order of 1600 tonnes
The Atkins solution:
Atkins’ design of the offshore substation platform (OSP) incorporates all of the temporary construction, transportation, installation and commissioning conditions, including the complex sequential pull-through of multiple submarine cables for connection to the OSP equipment. 

18. Bahrain World Trade Center Bahrain
Architecture,
civil and structural engineering,
MEP engineering, sustainable design,
construction supervision
Name of project:
Bahrain World Trade Center
Location:
Manama, Bahrain
Services provided by Atkins:
Architecture, civil and structural engineering, MEP engineering, sustainable design, construction supervision
What:
Atkins provided architecture, civil and structural engineering, MEP engineering, sustainable design and construction supervision services for the twin 240m high office towers and shopping mall.
The Atkins solution:
Atkins achieved a world first by aesthetically incorporating commercial wind turbines into the fabric of the building. The three 29m diameter wind turbines and the shape of the paired towers have a direct and tangible relationship via wind dynamics. The Carbon Critical Design of the Bahrain World Trade Center meant it was fully tenanted by major regional businesses from day one. Atkins also received a number of accolades for the design including a Best Tall Building award from The Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Construction Week award and an Innovation award from the Building Exchange.

19. Belfast sewers upgrade United Kingdom
Project management, planning, preliminary design, contract supervision and administration
Name of project:
Belfast Sewers Upgrade
Location:
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Services provided by Atkins:
Project management, planning, preliminary design, contract supervision and administration
What:
Atkins supplied project management, planning, preliminary design, contract supervision and administration to improve the water quality and reduce flood risk together with the rehabilitation and upgrading of a Victorian sewer system in Belfast.
The Atkins solution:
Atkins is the lead consultant of the largest contract ever to be awarded by Northern Ireland Water. The scale of the project is immense, including the construction of 9.5km of tunnels, 21 access shafts and a pumping station housed in Belfast’s deepest and largest excavation. The new infrastructure will address both flooding and pollution issues resulting from severe storm events.

20. Highways Agency United Kingdom
Maintaining the civils infrastructure of the UK’s road network in partnership with the Highways Agency for over 25 years
The Highways Agency manages 7,100 km of road and their aim is to provide “safe roads, reliable journeys and informed travellers”.
Our key projects with the HA at present are:
M25 Widening - The biggest highways project we have ever been involved with – the M25 widening – reached financial close in May and construction is already underway. In partnership with Balfour Beatty and Skanska, will be responsible for increasing capacity on 58km of one of the most heavily used roads in the UK. The construction value of this project is over £1 billion and will be completed in time for the 2012 London Olympic Games
Area 6, where Atkins is the first ever single service provider for a Managing Agent Contract. We provide integrated highway management and maintenance services for almost 1300kms of motorway and trunk roads within the counties of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. the new contract is worth £100 million over five years, with the potential for extension up to 2015.
We provide vehicle consultancy support, to advise and assist with the specification and procurement of a new fleet contract for the Traffic Officer Service.
We are at the forefront of helping the HA develop Active Traffic Management schemes. 

21. Coed Darcy United Kingdom
Land remediation,
onsite drainage and infrastructure design,
ecology,
geotechnics
Name of project:
Coed Darcy- Sustainable village
Location:
Wales, UK
Services provided by Atkins:
Land remediation, onsite drainage and infrastructure design, ecology, geotechnics
What:
Atkins is working with St Modwen Developments Ltd to transform a former oil refinery into the first sustainable ‘urban village’ in South Wales.
The Atkins solution:
Atkins is taking the lead in the extensive remediation programme, onsite drainage and infrastructure, offsite link road and necessary improvements to the motorway junction. The team is also providing services in the ecological consideration of the site as it’s adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
The overall development is a true example of providing integrated multi-disciplinary solutions. By 2027, this redeveloped site will be transformed into a new £1.2 billion urban village, providing homes for around 10,000 people.

22. Birmingham New Street Station United Kingdom
Lead consultant,
design management and urban planning
Name of project:
Birmingham New Street Station
Location:
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Services provided by Atkins:
Lead consultant/design management, production architecture, structural & civil engineering, building services engineering, interior design, transportation & highways, environmental services, sustainability, landscape architecture, geotechnical engineering
The Atkins solution:
This project sees the £600m remodelling and refurbishment of the Birmingham New Street Station in the heart of Birmingham to create a world-class gateway to the UK's second largest city. Atkins’ proposed design improves connectivity to the city and public transportation and includes a dramatic new atrium bringing natural light into the concourse.
Image courtesy of FOA Architects