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id: 9187
title: "Atkins: Best Sustainable Engineering & Design Partner Global 2021"
award_year: 2021
published: 2021-05-12 08:48:08
published_gmt: 2021-05-12 07:48:08
author: "CFI.co Editorial"
url: "https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2021/atkins-best-sustainable-engineering-design-partner-global-2021/"
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# Atkins: Best Sustainable Engineering & Design Partner Global 2021
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Atkins is a global engineering, design and project management consultancy whose corporate culture and business model deliver positive impacts. The UK-based firm partners with infrastructure clients around the world to help drive sustainability and digital transformation. Atkins sees climate change as the challenge of the century — and innovation, disruption and collaboration as the keys to solving it. Equality, diversity and inclusion are its core tenets of employment, and Atkins strives to attract under-represented demographics through outreach campaigns. It recruits top talent, treats its people with respect, and gives them room to grow. The workforce is united behind a common ideal: to build a better tomorrow by working together today. The company partners with customers to help enhance infrastructure operations, strengthen community connections and curb carbon emissions. Atkins is part of SNC-Lavalin Group, founded in 1911 and now leading the “net-zero engineering” movement. Atkins leverages the reach and expertise of the group to serve clients in energy, transportation, city planning, environment, defence and security sectors. It is a signatory to the UN Global Compact with an SDG-aligned business model. Atkins has identified goals for the business and its stakeholders over the next three years: affordable, clean energy, climate action, and sustainable cities and communities. The CFI.co judging panel declares Atkins winner of the 2021 global award for Best Sustainable Engineering & Design Partner.