Atkins Wins International Engineering Awards

Atkins’ work on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Channel Tunnel project was recognized with two history-making awards at the Intl. Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) gala dinner in Barcelona, Spain.

The FIDIC Centenary Awards celebrate the best consulting engineering achievements of the last 100 years, and are decided by an international judging panel of industry experts. The FIDIC Centenary Major Building Project was awarded to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; the Channel Tunnel won the Major Civil Engineering Project award.

The international judging panel selected the Channel Tunnel project from a field of 150 candidates, recognizing Atkins and the French engineering consultancy SETEC as joint project managers.

FIDIC members are made up of national associations of consulting engineers. Founded in 1913, FIDIC is charged with promoting and implementing the consulting engineering industry’s strategic goals on behalf of its member associations. Currently, its membership covers 94 countries across the world. The U.S. member organization of the FIDIC is the American Council of Eng. Companies (ACEC), which represents more than 5,000 American engineering firms.

The FIDIC Centenary Conference brought together more than 2,000 of the world’s top consulting engineering professionals, two-thirds of which were “C-suite” executives.

Source: Atkins