Insights Meet Divya Deepankar, Sustainability Consultant at AtkinsRéalis
What motivated you to choose a career in Sustainability?
What does Sustainability in Infrastructure design mean to you?
Tell us about some interesting projects you have recently worked on?
Good stakeholder engagement and collaboration are key to achieving exemplar sustainability performance. For example, on the A2Bean Ebbsfleet Junction improvements scheme, measures have been applied throughout the Scheme design to avoid any loss of designated sites, ancient woodlands and ancient trees, and reduce losses of veteran trees and other habitats such as broadleaved woodland through collaboration with the design team, ecology experts and contractors. These measures have in turn helped to reduce adverse effects on protected and priority wildlife species.
On this project, our aim was to help Heathrow understand and address the carbon performance of the replacement works for service supports and secondary steelworks repairs. The combined carbon saving achieved across the programme so far is 16,080 tonnes CO2e (38% average reduction across each of the four projects), which is roughly equivalent to annual emissions from 2,000 average UK homes. This was achieved through the implementation of the low-carbon design process and resulting carbon reduction measures identified in carbon workshops.
I am proud to say that our team has been nominated for the IEMA Sustainability Impact Awards 2020 in the category – ‘Consultancy and Collaboration’!
What do you love about working at Atkins?
What keeps you challenged and motivated at Atkins?
How does Atkins support your career development and interests?
What do you think are the key skills required to excel as a Sustainability Consultant?
What is your message to young people seeking to pursue a career in Sustainability?
Sustainability is not an option, it is at the heart of how we think about everything on a day to day basis!
Are you inspired by Divya's career with Atkins?
Divya is just one of many professionals working with the AtkinsRéalis Group, striving to put sustainability at the heart of our infrastructure projects. If you want to be involved in delivering impactful solutions to some of the most pressing climate issues, why not browse our consulting and advisory jobs?
If you're looking for more insights, browse our sustainability content and hear more about what our Group is doing to fight climate change and achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2030.
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