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Virtual Reality: Transforming Design
From new immersive technologies to life saving applications, virtual reality is finally meeting up to expectations of the 1990s and transforming the way that projects
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Saving Structures with Satellites
It was December 2015 and the UK was hit by a succession of devastating storms. Record breaking rainfall overwhelmed the country and rivers were dangerously swollen. Yorkshire, in the north of England was one of the worst hit areas. The intense storms led to higher and higher river levels breaching defences and in the village of Tadcaster something happened that no one was expecting….
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Atkins wins ACEC Grand award for Manning Crevice Bridge
Atkins has won an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Award-Grand Award for its work on the Manning Crevice Bridge replacement project. The
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#55 Saving Structures with Satellites
How data from satellites can track structural movement, and give early warning of potential failure. New research shows that catastrophic bridge collapses could have been
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#46 Metro stations: The gateway to the city
A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion,
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#43 Virtual Reality: transforming design
From new immersive technologies to life saving applications, virtual reality is finally meeting up to expectations of the 1990s and transforming the way that projects
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#37 Solving the Productivity Puzzle
Historically, the nation’s productivity has improved with economic growth, but since the global financial crisis and despite the UK’s recovery, productivity has flatlined. The Office
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#31 Creating a National Digital Twin
Back in December 2017 the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission set the UK a huge challenge: to create a digital model of our national infrastructure. Known
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#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare
Chloe is 16 and interested in an engineering career. She is also the daughter of Philip Hoare, President of engineering consultant Atkins. To find out