Atkins is set to deliver URENCO's capital investment programme - establishing its place as a strategic partner for all areas of URENCO's project and programme delivery. A capital investment programme involves investing in plant and site upgrades, as well as new facilities. Services provided by Atkins will include the provision of infrastructure and project management services to URENCO, a key player within the field of nuclear fuel supply chain, resulting in the sustainable generation of electricity for UK consumers.

Chris Ball, managing director of nuclear at Atkins, commented: "Having worked closely with URENCO for the last two years under the initial framework for this programme, we have established an excellent working relationship locally. We are pleased to be the strategic partner to URENCO for this hugely important long-term programme of activity.

"The scope of this work could see our URENCO-dedicated team double in size within the next 12 months. The close working relationships between our teams locally is an important component to our new contract as not only are we delivering the engineering and design side of things, but also helping URENCO establish systems and procedures for the ongoing management of project delivery and operations."

Brian Robinson, head of technical services at URENCO, commented: "Atkins already has proven technical and project management expertise in the nuclear arena but their ability to work with URENCO as truly collaborative partners for the long-term is what is most important to us with a programme of this scale."

URENCO fulfils its customers' requirements through its four operational nuclear enrichment plants in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the US.

For more information:

Imogen Parker
Head of communications, Energy

+44 1372 752350
imogen.parker@atkinsglobal.com

Natalie Buxton
Account director, Weber Shandwick

 +44 1224 806600

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Notes to editors:

Atkins ( www.atkinsglobal.com ) is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 17,400 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.

*14th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2013) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013).

Energy projects:
• UAE's peaceful nuclear new build programme - providing technical assurance to lenders backing the United Arab Emirates' most ambitious energy infrastructure projects;
• UK nuclear generation - part of the Strategic Supply Chain Partnership for EDF Energy's Nuclear Generation business providing additional expert engineering support as the company seeks to extend the life of its existing nuclear AGR fleet;
• UK new nuclear programme - working collaboratively with Horizon Nuclear Power providing engineering and related technical services for a new generation of nuclear power stations at Wylfa Newydd, on Anglesey and Oldbury in South Gloucestershire, UK;
• Nuclear decommissioning - currently preferred bidder on a new contract with Sellafield Ltd for its Silos Direct-encapsulation Plant (SDP) project in the UK, as part of an equal three-way joint venture with Areva and Mace (a.m.a.);
• North Sea and Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms - extending the operational life of critical oil and gas platforms to allow cost-efficient and safe recovery of hydrocarbons from mature fields;
• ENI assets in Australia - providing engineering and consultancy services to ENI across their portfolio of operating and non-operating assets and any future developments in Australia;
• Shell's oil and gas assets worldwide - providing technical and safety engineering services to Shell's onshore and offshore assets worldwide under an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA);
• SSE offshore wind alliance - providing expert engineering and design support for the UK's biggest offshore wind alliance with Scottish and Southern Energy;
• DONG Energy offshore wind farms - designing five offshore substations for DONG Energy's Walney and Burbo extension projects as well as the new Race Bank project;
• Energy from Waste - helping Energos deliver an Advanced Conversion Facility as part of Viridor and Glasgow City Council's £146 million Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC) in the UK;
• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) - Atkins is the technical adviser to the UK government's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for the CCS Commercialisation Programme which supports the development and deployment of full chain CCS demonstration plants.

Recent projects from across the Group:

Atkins is working across urban regeneration, master planning, national energy programmes, major transport schemes, water and environment projects - applying smart design solutions on projects including:

  • Central Planning Office - helping to co-ordinate Qatar's National 2030 Vision for world class transport infrastructure, which will bring major benefits to the economy;
  • The London 2012 Games infrastructure transformation - as technical advisor to London's boroughs as the Olympic Park moves into its legacy configuration as a follow-on role to our work as the Games' official engineering and design provider;
  • 's peaceful nuclear new build programme - providing technical assurance to lenders backing the United Arab Emirates' most ambitious energy infrastructure projects;
  • North Sea and Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms - extending the operational life of critical oil and gas platforms to allow cost-efficient and safe recovery of fuel sources from mature fields;
  • offshore wind alliance - provision of expert engineering and design support for the UK's biggest offshore wind alliance with Scottish and Southern Energy;
  • - designing the Central London twin tunnels and station architecture for Europe's biggest civil engineering scheme which will see tunnels passing beneath 470 listed buildings and critical infrastructure;
  • Railway - providing multidisciplinary design expertise on the 1,200 km Rail network which will passenger and freight transport in the ;
  • Denmark - providing signalling expertise on the first countrywide installation of an train control and management system in Denmark;
  • Hong Kong-- Bridge - lead consultant on this integral part of the new Hong Kong link road scheme which will significantly boost land connectivity in the region;
  • Sixth Form College - design of the energy consumption College in the UK which aims to reduce operational energy use by more than 60% compared to previous designs;
  • UK National Composites Centre - providing technical expertise to bring the latest lightweight carbon fibre materials to all engineering sectors, helping to develop innovative applications and reduce costs and carbon;
  • US Environmental Protection Agency - providing technical assessment and analysis of national water-related resources and ecological systems in North America.
  • Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) broadband - providing technical, commercial and procurement support to help deliver broadband to one of Europe's most remote regions.
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