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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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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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Construction Management

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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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LouisianaMetairieNew Orleans

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OTHERAUSTRALIAPerthSydney

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POLANDGliwiceKrakowWarsaw

PORTUGALLisbon

RomaniaBucharest

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