The perfect fit

When anyone looks at getting involved with an Olympic Games there’s plenty to weigh up. For a company – just as for an athlete – you’re holding yourself up for comparison with a history steeped in success.

At Atkins we thrive on challenges, our skills are honed by taking on projects that others may lose sleep over. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) placed its trust in us on the early design works – and as Project Managers, in collaboration with the Delivery Partner, the Olympic Bowl was handed over on budget and three months ahead of time.

Now the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) has charged us with delivering the 100 or so temporary structures that will be built up and down the UK. We are putting our full energies and focus into that too.

It’s exciting work – we’ll be making sure the athlete shooting for the hoop to win gold in the basketball competition will be doing so in a structure that will do justice to the occasion. We’ll be in charge of delivering the beach volleyball court that will transform Horseguards Parade. And as the cyclists hurtle around the velodrome they’ll be doing so above a bed of once heavily contaminated soil that our engineers helped clean.

For Atkins this will be a project that will sit as a significant milestone in our history. It demonstrates not only our deep technical expertise but how we have a breadth of skills that are the envy of the industry. During London 2012 we will have seen our civil, structural and specialist engineers, project managers, environmentalists, our security experts, and heritage teams, all working side by side on a project that’s all about teamwork.

For us the task is a perfect ‘fit’. The organisers’ ambition is to create the greenest Games ever – entirely in keeping with our carbon critical design agenda. It’s a project which must succeed – that’s our always our motivation.

Perhaps most of all though it gives us the chance to show off what we do on a truly world stage – that’s the sort of challenge we live for. And it’s not only in the UK we’re doing it either. In South Africa we’re behind their first high speed line, Gautrain, in Dubai we’re designing lines and extensions on their first metro system, and here in the UK we are supporting industries like rail, energy, education, water.

Excellence is in our DNA, and that’s why we are truly proud to associate with the London 2012 Games.

Keith Clarke
Chief Executive

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I was walking along Brittany’s Carnac beach -front with my daughter on my shoulders when my mobile rang and a colleague told me we’d just won the LOCOG job. I thought it just doesn’t get much better than this. But it really came home to me though when they hoisted the Union Jack at the closing ceremony in Beijing. It was then that I realised the eyes of the world were now focussing down on the UK, and for me in particular, Atkins.

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I was walking along Brittany’s Carnac beach -front with my daughter on my shoulders when my mobile rang and a colleague told me we’d just won the LOCOG job. I thought it just doesn’t get much better than this. But it really came home to me though when they hoisted the Union Jack at the closing ceremony in Beijing. It was then that I realised the eyes of the world were now focussing down on the UK, and for me in particular, Atkins.

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I was walking along Brittany’s Carnac beach -front with my daughter on my shoulders when my mobile rang and a colleague told me we’d just won the LOCOG job. I thought it just doesn’t get much better than this. But it really came home to me though when they hoisted the Union Jack at the closing ceremony in Beijing. It was then that I realised the eyes of the world were now focussing down on the UK, and for me in particular, Atkins.