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Atkins is a multinational design and engineering consultancy, providing expertise to help resolve complex challenges presented by the built and natural environment. Whether it's the concept for a new landmark building, improving major public transport systems, helping to clean up the UK nuclear industry or the improvement of a management process, we plan, design and enable solutions.

We're proud to be pioneers in Carbon Critical Design - in fact, we put it at the heart of every design question we're faced with. By taking an integrated approach to sustainability, our business stays responsive to the ever-growing need to minimise environmental impact for the benefit of all.

We don't just help our clients become more energy efficient. One of our own offices - The Hub in Bristol - has impressive sustainability credentials, rated 'Excellent' by the industry leading measure, BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method). As well as providing our people with a contemporary work space, the building incorporates all manner of energy saving features, like an air conditioning system without any moving parts and a rain harvester on the roof.

The cutting edge projects we're working on have a real impact on people's lives. Take our visionary remodeling of Birmingham New Street station, a breath-taking building for a city that's fast becoming world-renowned for its bold and modern architecture. Or our back-to-basics approach to reduce the congestion at Oxford Circus, where our pioneering diagonal design will help up to 40,000 people per hour to move freely around one of the busiest crossings in the world.

From modelling human traffic to mimicking the human body, our marine division has developed an energy generating device, inspired by the way blood pulses through veins. This device, called 'Anaconda', is in fact a 200 metre long rubber tube which will create energy by 'pulsing' 50 metres under the sea. According to the latest test results, the output will easily rival any other renewable source of electricity, meaning the radical technology used to design and build Anaconda represents a genuine breakthrough in harnessing the power of the sea.