WS Atkins plc ("Atkins") is to hold a presentation for analysts at 0830 today on its North American consultancy business. No material new information will be disclosed and there will be no update on current trading at the presentation. A copy of the presentation will be published on the Atkins website at www.atkinsglobal.com/investors at 0900.

Notes to editors:
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 18,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Our people's breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask why has allowed us to plan, design and enable some of the world's most complex and time critical projects.

*15th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2014) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013).

distributed by