Plan Design Enable Support to Waste Infrastructure Programme Our skills and experience
Plan Design Enable
Support to Waste Infrastructure Programme
Our skills and experience
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At Atkins we provide a fully integrated technical offering to the waste sector serving both the
UK and specific international markets where we have strong client relationships or can use
Atkins geographic reach.
We provide a service that covers concept to commissioning and emphasises our ability to
smooth the development of complex and technically challenging projects around the world.
We have a deep understanding of our clients’ world which allows us to manage and share
risk. We routinely work in partnership when a diverse team can add value or reduce cost.
Our offering broadly includes:
• Feasibility studies
• Technology integration
• Planning and consultation
• Environmental impact assessment
• Environmental permitting
• Concept to detailed design of civil infrastructure, building envelope and balance of plant
• FEED and design as owners’ engineer
• Technology integration
• Project and cost management
• CDM-C and HAzOPS services
• Lenders technical advisor and independent certifier
• Strategic asset management
Faithful+Gould, an Atkins company is a world leading project, commercial and cost
management consultancy. Its focus is on looking after clients’ interests when developing
projects and on adding real value and enhancing returns on investment through exceptional
levels of service and expertise in project and programme support services.
Who we are
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Skills & ServicesWe offer a comprehensive range of in-house multidisciplinary services
with integrated cross-disciplinary working practices aligned to our
key external markets. These enable us to take a holistic approach to
projects, and deliver unified design solutions to the waste market
using professionals that have worked extensively together and share
a common understanding or our Client’s drivers.
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Our clients rely on us to manage the risks associated with development of large scale
waste infrastructure projects. We are involved throughout the project lifecycle, from
initial site selection through to closure and demolition.
We plan and enable every aspect of our clients’ projects, from cost and risk planning,
feasibility studies and logistics to impact assessments, planning, permitting and
stakeholder engagement.
Our clients entrust us with project realisation, ensuring that designs are sustainable
and deliver the operational targets required.
We deliver construction for our clients by ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are
controlled and successful outcomes are delivered.
We help clients manage the operational life of their facilities, including strategic asset
management, operations and maintenance planning and ongoing regulatory support.
We manage major demolition projects in a sustainable manner, maximising material
reuse and minimising environmental impact.
We engage with clients and contractors to ensure that health and safety is paramount
throughout the project lifecycle, from HAzID and HAzOP through to CDM
co-ordination during construction and operational health and safety support.
Atkins’ Values
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Profiles
Jon SwanBSc (Hons), DipWEM, MCIWEM, CEnv
Jon is a Director with fifteen years
experience working in engineering and
environmental consultancy and currently
heads Atkins waste management
business. Jon has worked with both
public and private sector clients to help
resolve waste and resource management
issue across the full range of waste
types and treatment technologies. This
work has included leading design and
procurement for new waste facilities
under PPP and PFI, commercial and
industrial waste research and permitting
of a variety of waste treatment and
disposal facilities.
Paul Yates MSc, BSc, MIOA, MIEMA, CEnv
Paul is a Client Director with 17
years experience in regulation and
environmental management. He spent 6
years as a pollution regulator with local
authorities before joining Atkins in 2002.
Paul leads a range of projects, including
managing permitting and consenting
work for industrial and waste to energy
facilities, on behalf of owner operators
and as part of PFI consortia. These
include world class MBT and advanced
thermal treatment projects. Paul also
has a client management role for Atkins’
Waste business.
Craig Edgar BEng (Hons), PhD, MICE, CEng
Craig is a Chief Engineer within our
power business who has significant
experience of delivering projects in
the power and energy sectors. Craig’s
main area of expertise is in project
development from pre-feasibility
assessment through to detailed
engineering. He has spent most of his
career working on new build and major
retrofit power generation projects from
gas fired power stations to biomass CHP.
Craig has worked in, and led, design and
study teams as well as leading Owner’s
Engineer teams overseeing the project
implementation phase.
Richard AllumBEng (Hons), MCIWEM, CEng
Richard is the Principal Engineer for
our waste management infrastructure
discipline. Richard has over 19 years
experience in engineering consultancy
delivering projects in the waste
management and materials recovery
sector. Richard’s experience includes
input at all stages of design from initial
scoping and options appraisal, though
conceptual design, planning, contractor
appointment and construction. His
experience in this sector allows him
to provide client focused pragmatic
solutions and oversee a diverse range of
technical contributors.
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Pam Butler MA, MSc, BSc (Hons), MCIWM
Pam is a Principal Waste Consultant
with over 16 years experience in the
waste management industry, with
the majority of her career being spent
within the public sector local authority
environment. Pam is responsible
for managing a diverse portfolio
of projects from feasibility, strategy
through to planning and EIA work.
Recent experience has involved project
managing multidisciplinary teams in
the planning, design and delivery of
waste infrastructure projects covering a
range of technologies from mechanical
biological treatment (MBT) to advanced
thermal treatment.
Steve TownsendBEng (Hons), DipEM, MIET, CEng
Steve is a Chartered Electrical Engineer
with over 20 year’s project delivery
experience on a wide variety of capital
projects ranging from energy-from-
waste to nuclear. Steve has experience in
operational project delivery experience
with respect to all phases of the project
life cycle - From the development
phase through to the construction
and commissioning phases. Steve has
specialism in programme management
and controls including the integration of
systems, processes and teams leading to
the successful delivery of projects.
Stuart AllinsonBEng, CEng, MIStrucE
Stuart is Chartered Structural Engineer,
an Associate Director in Atkins and
Head of the Property Design team
in Atkins’ Leeds office. Stuart is an
engineer with over 25 years in the
construction industry, with a broad
experience across various sectors, but
in recent years has concentrated on the
industrial and power sectors. Stuart has
particular expertise in working closely
with contractors on design and build
projects. From this work he has gained
an invaluable understanding that good
designs have to have good ‘buildability’
and that a project’s final costs and
programme depends on this.
Thomas SpiersBsc Hons, HND Mechanical Engineering
Tom has 20 years experience in the
power sector covering OEM, consultancy
and generating company experience.
He has particular experience in the
design, legislation compliance and
integrity management of pressure
systems. He has worked at a senior
level in his previous post where he was
the mechanical engineering technical
authority for Scottish Power’s portfolio
of power plant dealing with their
operational and integrity issues.
He has also been an active member of
GENSIP, HRSG and Power Boiler Users
group committees in the UK wide
power industry.
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Our people
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Pete Thorn Hydrogeology
Paddy Carless International Waste Management
Jon Evans Waste Compliance
Stuart Kinsey MEP
Sarah HorrocksAir quality
Inan Ekici Acoustics
Ruth Bromley-Gore Planning
Stuart Allinson Structural Engineering
Nick Gorst Geotechnics
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David Moir Construction and Demolition Management
Gareth Williams WRATE
Ben StubbsSustainability/BREEAM
Jayne Donnelly Contamination and remediation
Paul Munns Fire Fighting Strategy
John Box Ecology
Graeme NobleArchitecture
Richard Franklin Traffic
John Weir Drainage
Jason Husselbee-OrwinBIM/3D modelling
Matt Herring Infrastructure Design
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Waste to EnergyFeasibility
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Our experienceWaste Compositional Analysis and Waste Flow ModellingWe have the ability to combine composition analysis, weighbridge data, and
published data to produce meaningful and accurate waste models. These can
range from a simple Excel spreadsheet to more complex bespoke models with an
array of functions. The models provide future waste arising estimates from source
to disposal along with summary tables and visual representations of results. Waste
modelling provides current and future capacity requirements and informs the
service design and procurement process.
Atkins specialises in waste data handing, interrogation and analysis, as well as
the production of statistical models. Where there is uncertainty in such
forecasting we introduce a baseline, best, medium and worst case scenario
approach to the options.
WRATEWhere processing waste has the potential to impact negatively on the
environment, demonstrating good environmental management can support
recognition for sustainability and help steer projects through the planning and
permitting process.
Atkins has extensive experience in using WRATE to develop a diverse range
of waste management scenarios for our clients. Our waste team has the
necessary skills and experience to produce scenarios for a wide range of waste
processes and situations. We analyse the results of an assessment in detail, and
ascertain what aspect of a scenario may be most influential in causing a specific
environmental impact. Our expertise extends to the production of bespoke
models for processes where we can tailor the process parameters to fit in line
with the expected operating performance of the process to be modelled.
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Planning/EIAWe have extensive experience in undertaking planning and environmental
impact assessments for a wide range of projects.
At Atkins we have the experts to deliver all stages of the EIA process, whether
that be undertaking the entire EIA, or assisting at one or more of the key
stages. We can support the EIA with specialists from all of the relevant
environmental topic areas including air, landscape and visual effects, ecology,
soil, water resources and flood risk, noise, traffic, archaeological heritage, land
quality, socio-economic and agriculture.
Our environmental consultants understand both how things work and how
things are built, and are excellent at integrating the environmental sciences on
engineering projects – delivering solutions that are pragmatic, innovative and
cost effective.
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Royal Commission of Jubail and YanbuAtkins was commissioned to undertake a technology review of MBT
for a client in Saudi Arabia. As part of this project the full range of
different MBT processes within WRATE were assessed to give an
indication of how different configurations of MBT, such as anaerobic
digestion, drying or RDF production, could influence environmental
performance. An analysis was conducted which looked at such
influential features as energy consumption, amount and composition
of recycling produced, amount and composition of RDF, the influence
of moisture content and the effect of the facility output destination
such as landfilling or recycling RDF. The work also included a further
carbon assessment which examined the influence of recyclables and
potential carbon savings which could be made through recycling
different types of material.
Confidential ClientWe were commissioned to produce a bespoke WRATE model for an
RDF preparation facility and thermal waste process as part of a waste
contract bid on behalf of our client. The final scenario was compared
to the full extent of thermal and combustion processes within WRATE
to demonstrate the variation in CO² equivalent emissions and energy
generation. The results of the model showed that the proposed process
produced substantially more energy than comparable facilities with
more favourable CO² emissions.
Waste Compositonal AnalysisWe undertook a fuel study for a waste to energy facility in the UAE
including waste compositional analysis, sampling programme, calorific
value moisture content testing, theoretical CV benchmarking and
fuel availability
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Open Skip 10m3
Lebab
Jebel Ali
Warsan
Al Quasis
Plastics
Ferrous
Aluminium
Glass
Paper
Domestic Waste
Bring bank
Open Skip 20m3
Eurobin
Litter Bins
Dirty MRF
Landfill ArticRCV
Roro
Litter Fleet
Reprocessor Artic
Rejects from MRF
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Planning and EIA Avonmouth Low Carbon Energy Facility Atkins carried out the EIAs for New Earth Solutions mechanical biological treatment facility and a low carbon energy facility
on the former Britannia Zinc site in Avonmouth, approximately 9.5km north-west of Bristol. The MBT facility treats 200,000
tonnes per annum of residual waste through a combination of sorting, segregating and composting processes with the
LowCEF facility utilising the output from this plant as feedstock. The 5.5ha brownfield site is approximately 800m from the
Severn Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Protection Area, Special Area of Conservation and Ramsar site. The
Environmental Statements describe mitigation and design measures that should bring long-term beneficial effects, most
notably to local water courses and biodiversity, while making sustainable use of household and commercial waste.
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Planning and EIA Suffolk County Council Atkins produced a planning application including all supporting planning documents and environmental assessment report
for a 95,000 tonne per annum waste transfer station at Bury St Edmunds. The site also included the redevelopment of a co-
located household waste recycling centre from an at grade facility to a purpose designed split level site. This was a tightly
constrained site which required sympathetic design to mitigate its impact on the local environment. Assessments carried out
to support the application included noise, air quality, landscape and visual impact, ecology and flood risk. Atkins continues to
work with Suffolk County Council and we are currently producing a subsequent application for a second WTS facility at East
Ipswich which will manage circa 72,000 tonnes of municipal waste. We also assisted the Council by producing the advertising
and display materials for the public consultation events. Atkins staff were also present at the events to respond to queries,
which allowed us to ensure that local concerns were addressed and fed back into the emerging design and planning process.
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Project Development
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Our experienceCompetitive DialogueAtkins has experience of leading and assisting procurement teams through the
OJEU tendering and associated procedures including open, restricted, negotiated
and competitive dialogue processes for a variety of major waste management
facilities. Atkins has considerable experience in providing technical support to
both public and private sector during the Competitive Dialogue process from
outline business case through to preferred bidder and financial close. We have
recently been undertaking work for more than 7 local authorities/public sector
and 11 contractors who are involved in a variety of procurement projects and can
therefore demonstrate an understanding of both sides of this process.
Concept Design; Developing Robust SolutionsConcept design represents a crucial stage of project development defining key
concepts and parameters that will inform all subsequent design. While the relative
cost of design at this stage is low the overall impact on outcome is significant.
We have a strong track record in the delivery of well considered concept
solutions through:
• Focus around inception workshops with clients and key contributors to
foster collaborative working and early capture of basis of design and
operational constraints
• Experience with whole project life cycle and and cross discipline input
enables us to capture critical issues at concept helping provide
robust and deliverable solutions
• Generation of scale spatial 2d engineering and 3d visualisation concept
layouts enabling informed choices to be made
• Early use of swept path software to ensure vehicle access and
logistical clearances
• Management of project from outset through generation of project risk/
opportunities registers
• Critical flaw analysis to enable early intervention on sites/schemes
• Incorporation of utilities and other site constraints such as geotechnics into
the design
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Environmental Permitting; Best Available TechniquesMost waste treatment and disposal operations require an environmental permit
(or PPC permit in Scotland and Northern Ireland), before commencement of
commissioning (i.e. before first waste). Obtaining this requires an assessment of
environmental impact, and a justification for the process design as Best Available
Techniques (BAT).
The permitting process is inherently linked to the environmental impact
assessment (EIA) process, a planning task, and the site design phase of the
project. Managing the risk interfaces between these phases is critical to ensuring
that the project programme is followed, design change is minimised and costs
are controlled.
Key to the success of this is communication; with the regulators, with local
planning and environmental health authorities, with the wider client and Atkins
project teams and with the stakeholders than can influence the permitting
process, such as statutory consultees and the waste authority.
We work with our clients to ensure careful timing of the project phases,
overlapping common tasks between planning and permitting, and ensuring
an effective feedback loop between planning and permitting outcomes and
concept design/FEED. This means that we minimise carry-through of planning and
permitting risk to the detailed design of the facility. It also means that we secure a
permit that is appropriate for the operational requirements of the facility.
Atkins benefits from having planning, EIA, permitting and design teams (including
process, civil, structural, mechanical and electrical) all in-house and all regularly
working together on large scale waste infrastructure projects. We also routinely
work with client design teams to ensure that permitting risk is fed back into the
design process.
Detailed Design; Delivering the SchemeWe provide a collaborative, multi-disciplinary design team to develop project
concepts into fully developed schemes. Design teams are typically led by waste
infrastructure specialists, supported by a dedicated design manager acting as the
main client contact for the project. The design manager is supported by technical
design teams focussing on:
• Mechanical design & integrity
• Process
• Electrical
• C&I
• Systems engineering
A successful design team can operate in a variety of contractual and technical
environments. We operate as a traditional consultant or in a design and build
model. We act as a technology integrator for licensed, bespoke processes, and
we fulfil the lead designer role for the full waste treatment process including all
balance of plant and associated infrastructure. We have delivered detailed design
solutions for a wide range of waste infrastructure facilities, including:
• Engineered landfill sites
• Household waste recycling centres
• Waste transfer stations
• Anaerobic digestion facilities
• Waste to energy and advanced thermal treatment plants
We have designed and delivered schemes where there are significant constraints,
for example in terms of historical contamination, geotechnical conditions
or topography. We routinely deliver the architecture and plant envelope design
to suit a wide range of client requirements, from utilitarian to architecturally led.
We include sustainability into our design processes, and deliver BREEAM Excellent
schemes.
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Concept Design ARC 21, MBT and EfW facility, Northern Ireland Atkins formed part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver developed
concept designs for the proposed new build MBT and EfW facility for the ARC 21
Hub, a partnership of 11 local councils, near Belfast. The concept designs were used
as part of the competitive PFI bid process by the Becon Consortium. The concept
designs helped size the MBT facility and set component elements of the scheme
and the associated logistical and administrative functions within the context of
the proposed quarry site. Atkins worked in concert with the specialist designers of
both the MBT and EfW process equipment and our client to provide an integrated
modern waste management facility. The proposal was successful and is now
moving forward with a view to detailed design and construction.
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Concept Design Pontypool AD facility, South Wales Atkins has provided concept design for a new build 90,000 tpa AD facility for Shanks Waste Management. The facility near
Pontypool South Wales will bring back into productive use a former waste incinerator site. Concept design was prepared
in support of planning and to allow option selection as to the best overall layout within a limited spatial framework. The
facility was developed in collaboration with Shanks Group’s AD specialists Orgaworld and included provision for a split level
reception facility and external bunded tank farm. The process facility was augmented by a standalone welfare, administration
and education facility. The design brought together early contractor involvement with Atkins lead civil, architectural and
structural design.
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Permitting Client Design Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facilities 1 & 2, Air ProductsAtkins is the planning, EIA and permitting consultant for these two 350,000 tonne, 50MWe plasma gasification projects on
Teesside. This technology is completely new to the global waste market. Atkins’ planning and permitting teams worked
in close collaboration with each other and the client project and design team to deliver the applications to time and
budget, incorporating design changes along the way. We were able to add significant value by ensuring that environmental
constraints and planning risks were incorporated into the design as the project progressed.
Negotiation with the Environment Agency was also critical, as environmental permit conditions had to be drafted from
scratch for this novel technology.The planning consent and environmental permit for the first facility have been safeguarded
and Financial Close achieved. It is now nearing completion and will be operational from early 2014. The planning consent
for the second facility has been secured, and a draft environmental permit is expected in December 2013. Financial Close has
been achieved and construction is due to commence early in 2014.
We helped the client secure the right outcome; a permit that allowed flexible operation within the Waste Incineration
Directive (now Industrial Emissions Directive) constraints.
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Client Testimonial“It is very exciting that we have been able to bring our leading edge technology to
the UK and work with Paul and the Atkins team to get this important project to the
point where construction can actually start. We appreciate the flexibility and in-depth
knowledge of the Atkins team as well as their commitment and professionalism in
helping the project team resolve the complex issues associated with this leading edge,
first of its kind project of this nature in the UK.”
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Permitting Atkins was the EIA, permitting, concept and detailed design consultant for this mechanical and biological treatment (MBT) facility in Essex, the largest such
facility in the UK. The site was particularly sensitive due to historical tensions between the local authorities in the region, and because of the adjacent Travellers’
site. Atkins developed the EIA for planning, and participated in the stakeholder and public consultation exercise, to ensure that local concerns were addressed
and fed back into the emerging design. Atkins also undertook the environmental permit application, engaging with the Environment Agency and local authority
environmental health department, to ensure that the environmental controls on the process were robust and met the concerns of the neighbours. The planning
consent and environmental permit were secured in good time. Atkins progressed the concept design in parallel with the permitting process, incorporating the risk
management and mitigation measures into the site layout. Upon successful conclusion of the PFI bidding process, Atkins then continued with the detailed design.
Construction is now well advanced.
We helped the client secure the right outcome; a permit that allowed flexible operation whilst managing the potential impact on neighbours and ensuring delivery
of the contract requirements.
Atkins DesignCourtauld Road MBT facility
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Detailed DesignAtkins is lead designer for the civil, structural and architectural package for the Courtauld Road MBT facility. The 420,000 tpa
BREEAM Excellent facility will provide a hub site for the county and has been procured by the Council via a PFI mechanism.
We provided design input from initial concept and bid stages forward into detailed design and construction support for
Balfour Beatty in their role as lead civil contractor. Detailed design drew on a significant cross discipline team of Atkins
architects and engineers encompassing the building, structures, civils, drainage, geotechnics, building services and landscape
elements of the scheme overseen by a dedicated design lead.
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Cotesbach MBTUnited Kingdom Lead designer from concept to delivery of a 50,000tpa MBT plant
in Leicestershire. Services include architecture, civil and structural
engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, landscape design
and environmental permitting..
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Wilton 11 Architectural and landscape design forms an important bridge
between the functional and operational aspects of the scheme and
the wider setting of the site. When done well it can help ensure
a better working environment for users and visitors of the site
and help gain buy-in from neighbours, local interest groups, the
planning authority and the wider public. We seek to engage with
elected members early in the deign process to mitigate planning risk
at later stages of development.
Atkins has extensive experience in combining concept and detailed
design of complex waste facilities with architecture and landscaping
to deliver a well considered and holistic approach to the realisation
of scheme design. We have worked with equal enthusiasm and
rigour on the whole spectrum of projects from the more utilitarian
all the way to statement projects and therefore can offer solutions
that are cost effective and relevant to the setting, industrial nature
of the site and aspiration and brand of our clients. We combine
this with landscaping that provides scheme context and delivers the
added value of low maintenance ecological and habitat benefits.
We look to provide good design through early engagement with
the scheme to help inform initial concepts and constraints. Often
cost effective and comparatively simple considerations of building
massing and orientation can have significant positive impacts on the
perception of the building off-site and the environment on-site.
We also incorporate SuDS and BREEAM accreditation requirements,
and include sustainability as an inherent element of scheme design.
In addition to design input our architectural team can also provide
procedural support in the submission of building regulations
applications and proactively address planning requirements.
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
BIM at its heart is concerned with the ‘purposeful
management of information through the life cycle of a
project’, by the integration of data from many design
contributors in a collaborative model. BIM works as a
tool to co-ordinate and streamline the detailed design
process. It provides a repository for all the project
information.
The BIM model is built up during design, and can then
be broken into construction programme elements,
giving control and monitoring capability to the project
manager.
BIM is a dynamic model that evolves through the entire
project lifecycle, from design through construction
and operation, asset management, closure and
decommissioning.
Whole lifecycle information management can deliver:
• Up to 40% elimination of unbudgeted change
• 80% reduction in time to generate cost estimates
• Cost estimate accuracy to within 3%
• 10% savings on contract value through clash
detection
• 7% reduction in project time
(source: Stanford University review of 32 major projects
using BIM)
Atkins’ current applications have enabled us to share 3D structural, architectural and
civil models in a single environment with clients’ 3D process models. This allows us
to optimise design and produce construction plans and build sequences in 4D. Future
applications are evolving and developing to enable us to partner with our clients to
optimise multidisciplinary design processes, challenge convention and exceed project
delivery expectations.
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Our experienceCost ManagementWe manage large scale waste infrastructure projects through the development of
a series of project definition aspects for project management and controls.
Typically, the following methods and tools are used to drive an infrastructure
project to early success:
• Determination of the project organisational structure aligned with roles and
responsibilities
• Development of the project execution plan (PEP) components to determine
the principle aspects of quality management and communications within the
whole project team
• Establish ‘swim lane’ diagrams to enable correct interpretation and
understanding of the project agreement / contract to the benefit of the
whole project team, preventing duplication of effort
• Fixing the schedule / programme structure with the development, baselining
and progressing of this to excellent industry standards
• Setting expectations with the EPC contractor to ensure that project controls
monitoring and reporting is visible to all stakeholders on the project
• To develop the culture of timely and accurate forecasting of project
outcomes to ensure that timely project decisions are made to the benefit of
the successful delivery of the project
• To develop from day one of the project, a collaborative approach with all
stakeholders to truly develop a cross party project team, motivated to the
success of the project
CDM Co-OrdinationWe will provide CDM co-ordinator services to ensure legal compliance at
each stage of the design and construction process, from inception to design,
planning and tender through to construction and completion. Our CDM-C’s are
committed for the full project duration and plan in advance to identify, receive,
collate and produce comprehensive but user friendly health and safety files that
can be easily accessed and viewed by the end users and shall seek to incorporate
within the end users documentation system where practical. We are continually
liaising with clients to plan ahead for health and safety file system integration and
the benefits this shall bring as they manage the future use and maintenance of
their infrastructure.
If required we can also offer wider health and safety services functions such as
health and safety audits, fire risk assessment, health and safety training, accident
/ incident investigation, policy and procedural advice, to name a few examples.
We will work with you to ensure your complete compliance with health and
safety legislation, ultimately protecting your staff, contractors and third parties in
the course of your operations.
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Engineering Design and Strategic Asset Management
Atkins provides in-house engineering disciplines to help our clients plan for long
asset life, and actively maintain asset life, in the operational phase. Our combined
engineering teams provide strategic asset management services for over 9,000
MW of generation capacity globally.
We provide technical and commercial services to clients across a wide range of
power generation and similar projects, using conventional, non-fossil, waste and
nuclear fuels and ranging from large 4,000MW coal-fired power stations to small
hydro-electric power stations of less than 1MW capacity.
Our operational and maintenance engineers generally have either utility or OEM
background and possess a thorough understanding of the power generation
process, operational and commercial pressures and the plant components.
Several of our team have been involved with GENSIP (GENerator Safety & Integrity
Programme) through their respective utility companies and therefore have been
central in developing the safe procedures of assessing the risk of large generating
plant and safe management through to end of life.
We also have significant capability in process, mechanical, electrical and chemical
engineering providing traditional process design, fluid and thermal performance
modelling. We undertake integrity assessment of operational plant, including
steam systems, metallurgy and materials, mechanical design, pipework, structural
analysis and rotating plant vibration. We undertake root cause analysis and non-
destructive testing, backed up by laboratory services. We also deliver functional
safety, SIL assessments, HAzOP and HAzID services.
This multi-disciplinary engineering capability also ideally places us to offer
owners’ engineer services, and also contributes to the detailed facility design and
environmental permitting phases.
Site Closure and DecommissioningAtkins has significant experience in a wide range of demolition projects from
small complex sites to large power stations. Each project presents a
unique challenge.
We typically take the role of owners’ engineer. We produce performance based
specifications for the works, estimating and budgetary input, tender assessments
including tender interviews and supervision of the demolition works and
management of the demolition contract.
We also act as CDM co-ordinator. Our main focus is to ensure that all health and
safety and environmental risks are identified at the earliest stage in the works,
allowing demolition contractors sufficient time to plan for the inclusion of the
necessary control measures to be implemented during the works.
We also undertake ancillary work to the main demolition activity, including
bridge condition assessment, sea wall inspection, jetty inspections and hazardous
materials audits.
A key aspect of each project is to enable demolition contractors to generate
maximum revenue from the scrap metals contained within the station buildings.
This procurement route enables our clients to offset some of the cost of the
demolition works.
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Cost Management Project Controls and Construction Management at Peterborough EfW Facility We are acting as manager for the construction of the Peterborough
EfW facility. This aligns with the previous role we had as Peterborough
City Council’s environmental permitting consultant, delivering the
permit application and assisting with scoring the PFI submissions
made by Viridor and their competitors.
We are actively managing the construction process through
determination of the organisational structure, developing and
implementing project execution plans, fixing the schedule and helping
to manage the project controls monitoring and reporting protocols.
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CDM Co-ordination Billingham EfW Faithful+Gould is the acting as the project CDM Co-ordinator for the design, construction and commissioning of the EfW plant
at Haverton Hill, Billingham
The facility is currently under construction and is scheduled to achieve commercial operation in early 2014. The EfW facility
has a capacity of up to 256,000 tonnes of waste per year, which will have the capacity to export 20Mwe to the grid. As CDM
Co-ordinator we are liaising and working with several multi-national companies who are providing project management,
design, engineering and equipment supply services from around the world, as well as the client project team. At peak
construction, the project shall accommodate up to 500 construction personnel.
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Engineering Design and Strategic Asset ManagementAtkins is working as designer’s engineer for Energos Ltd. to support the construction of an energy from waste facility located in
Polmadie, South Glasgow. The facility forms a key part of Glasgow City Council’s £154million Glasgow Recycling and Renewable
Energy Centre which will produce enough energy to power the equivalent of 22,000 households and heat the equivalent of some
8,000 homes, delivering a saving to Glasgow of 90,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.
Atkins experience and expertise is helping Energos deliver their novel technology to the UK market.
Atkins is responsible for developing the process design for the mechanical balance of plant from FEED to Approved for Design
(AFD) and thereafter developing the detailed mechanical and electrical design, control system and system integrator management.
We are also fulfilling the process safety management role.
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Site Closure and Decomissioning Inverkip Power Station Demolition
Atkins was appointed in 2007 as the owner’s engineer for the decommissioning and demolition of the 2028MW Inverkip power
station on the left bank of the Firth of Clyde on the west of Scotland, which dated from 1976 and ceased operation in the late
1980s. We undertook the following tasks:
• Familiarisation with the station, its environs and existing records
• Interface with stakeholders including presentations and public consultations
• Specifying and procuring surveys to inform the demolition
• Preparation of a hazardous substances audit - potential for the presence of asbestos and vanadium pentoxide
• Review of asbestos surveys
• Development of ecological management plan to protect the adjacent SSSI
• Identification and management of in ground contamination
• Isolations and disconnects including 400kV cables
• Determination of plant and structural steelwork scrap tonnages – potential for salvage
• Preparation of budget estimates
• Preparation of tender documents, presentations to tenderers and conducting tender assessments
• Site supervision and contract management
The most significant risk was considered to be the heavy fuel oil pipeline on the jetty
and the three 80,000 tonne HFO Tanks. These were decommissioned and
demolished in 2009/10. Demolition is now nearly complete.
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