Geotechnical Engineering - Airports.indd
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What we can offer<br />
Key Contacts<br />
Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technologicallybased<br />
consultancy and support services in the world.<br />
We employ over 18,000 staff throughout our offices worldwide. We are<br />
well positioned to undertake a diversity of projects, with a multidisciplinary<br />
team spread across a network of offices throughout the UK and overseas<br />
in the Americas, Asia and South East Asia, Western Europe, Central and<br />
Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.<br />
<strong>Geotechnical</strong> Skills & Services<br />
• engineering geology & geohazards<br />
• environmental geotechnics<br />
• engineering geomorphology<br />
• advanced geomechanics<br />
• rock & soil slope stabilisation<br />
• earthworks<br />
• foundations & substructure engineering<br />
• highways geotechnics<br />
• rail geotechnics<br />
• river & coastal geotechnics<br />
• offshore geotechnics<br />
• water supply & sewerage geotechnics<br />
• nuclear geotechnics<br />
• tunnel & shaft engineering<br />
• due dilligence & expert witness<br />
For further details regarding our capabilities please email:<br />
geotechnicalengineering@atkinsglobal.com<br />
Office Locations<br />
UK & Ireland<br />
<strong>Geotechnical</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong>:<br />
<strong>Airports</strong><br />
Our UK & Ireland offices include:<br />
Aberdeen<br />
Crewe<br />
Haverfordwest<br />
Northampton<br />
St. Asaph<br />
Altrincham<br />
Barking<br />
Belfast<br />
Birmingham<br />
Bristol<br />
Cambridge<br />
Cardiff<br />
Chelmsford<br />
Chippenham<br />
Colwyn Bay<br />
Cork<br />
Croydon<br />
Cumbria<br />
Derby<br />
Dublin<br />
Edinburgh<br />
Epsom<br />
Exeter<br />
Gillingham<br />
Glasgow<br />
Gloucester<br />
Havant<br />
Ipswich<br />
Knutsford<br />
Leeds<br />
London<br />
Maidstone<br />
Manchester<br />
Newcastleunder-Lyme<br />
Newcastle-<br />
Upon-Tyne<br />
Newport<br />
Nottingham<br />
Oxford<br />
Peterborough<br />
Plymouth<br />
Pontypridd<br />
Reading<br />
Sale<br />
Scunthorpe<br />
Sheffield<br />
Southampton<br />
Stockton-On-<br />
Tees<br />
Swansea<br />
Swindon<br />
Taunton<br />
Telford<br />
Warrington<br />
Warwick<br />
Winchester<br />
York<br />
Plan Design Enable
Project Experience<br />
Project Experience<br />
Project Experience<br />
Directional Drilling, RAF Stanbridge<br />
Atkins was appointed by Anglian Water to design a sewage pumping<br />
station and rising mains. Our geotechnical expertise was called upon to<br />
assist with the evaluation of directional drilling for the pipeline system.<br />
Manchester Airport, Second Runway<br />
Design and construction supervision of a new 3km runway, taxi-ways<br />
and holding bays, a 260m long cut and cover highway tunnel for the<br />
A538, and a 12m high 300m long tunnel to permit the River Bollin to<br />
pass under the new runway. Major earthworks included a 2 million<br />
cubic metres embankment, 25m high across the Bollin Valley. We were<br />
designers to the successful AMEC-Tarmac Joint Venture.<br />
Notable aspects of our work were the geotechnical and foundation risk<br />
assessment carried out as an aid to tendering, and the combination of<br />
traditional and more advanced design techniques which resulted in an<br />
optimised design for the embankments and tunnels.<br />
Sheikh Isa Airbase, Bahrain<br />
Construction of the 4.1km long runway and adjacent taxiways of the<br />
Sheikh Isa Airbase entailed large cut and fill operations which were<br />
the subject of a multi-million US dollar contractual dispute. Atkins was<br />
commissioned to provide expert opinion on engineering geological,<br />
geotechnical and materials handling issues as part of the arbitration<br />
proceedings.<br />
Our work included a review of the technical basis of the dispute (in the<br />
USA, UK and Bahrain) followed by a programme of field investigation<br />
and laboratory testing which was carefully targeted to provide additional<br />
data from which independent conclusions could be drawn.<br />
St Helena Airport, Atlantic Ocean<br />
Access to St Helena Island is currently only possible by a lengthy boat<br />
journey from South Africa or Ascension Island (the photograph below<br />
shows the island’s capital, Jamestown). Following a government<br />
decision to provide an airport on the island, Atkins was commissioned<br />
to undertake initial and reference designs in advance of the award of a<br />
design, build and operate contract for the airport.<br />
We carried out geotechnical investigations and designs for the airport’s<br />
runway, terminal and cross-country access road, integrating our work<br />
with that of the airport engineers, construction logistics specialists<br />
and environment team.<br />
Terminal 5 Access and M25 motorway widening,<br />
Heathrow Airport<br />
Investigation and geotechnical design of the complex network of new<br />
and upgraded highways needed to serve the proposed Terminal 5 and to<br />
provide increased capacity for the adjacent M25 motorway.<br />
London City Airport - extension<br />
<strong>Geotechnical</strong> study for a proposed extension to London City Airport.<br />
Work included a review of historical ground investigation data and<br />
production of a report summarising geotechnical constraints.<br />
Cargo Handling Building, Heathrow Airport<br />
Site investigation and geotechnical design for the cargo building involved<br />
a carefully optimised programme of work on the ‘air-side’ of the airport.
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