Transportation

The engineering practice is home to around 1,000 professionally trained or qualified engineering and technicians in the UK. Our Highways, Bridges & Civils and Digital teams work across our markets to apply civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering services to solve our clients’ problems.

We actively encourage staff development through our strong technical networks, talent management programme and by creating an inclusive culture that embraces diversity of thought.

We work alongside clients and collaborate with them and our partners, be they internal or part of our wider supply chain, to deliver outcomes that benefits society and makes the world a better place to be.

Our project delivery practice provides the leadership on the biggest, most complex and high-risk major projects in our portfolio. We have a large pool of experienced project management and commercial experts to deliver excellent work for our clients. We also provide support and guidance to the whole of transportation on project management, commercial management and project controls tools and processes.

Developing project leaders is at the heart of what we do. We have a project management competency framework to understand peoples’ skills and support their development and a Professional Head of Project Management to provide guidance on the new route to chartership of the Association for Project Management.

Our Rail Systems business consists of over 600 experts and is the leading independent railway signalling and telecommunications business operating in the UK. We offer a wide range of services which are product agnostic, covering design, procurement, construction and testing services. We not only operate in the UK Rail market, but deploy our systems delivery expertise to the Highways and Airports sectors as well.

Our specialists provide end to end signalling and telecoms design, build and operation services to a range of clients across the transport ecosystem and work in close collaboration with our clients and supply chain partners to build delivery teams that achieve high levels of performance in often fat paced and challenging environments.

The Transport Advisory and Consulting practice encompasses a broad range of advisory and technical consulting services working across the rail, highways and local transport markets.

Our consultancy practice has a number of sub-practices within it, these are:

• Digital & Data Insights
• Rolling Stock
• Asset Management
• Transport Planning (Movement & Place)
• Intelligent Mobility & Smart Technologies
• Advisory

Digital asset management is one of our key growth areas where we see the application of our market-leading strategic asset management advisory skills alongside new digital tools placing us at the forefront of an industry-wide change.

Transport assets in the UK are the most valuable in public ownership, and we are working with our clients to help them manage their assets and systems in a sustainable way that optimises life-cycle costs, boosts performance, and lengthens their useful life. To do this we blend an in depth understanding of transport assets across road and rail with new digital-enabled approached to monitoring asset condition and evidence-based decision-making.

Our team consists of around 80 engineers, consultants and technical specialists who take an end-user and outcome-focused approach to connecting people, places and services – reimagining infrastructure across all transport modes, enabled by data, technology and deep industry knowledge.

We work with emerging technologies to transform people’s journeys and the movement of goods, whilst increasing the efficiency, sustainability and safety of our transport systems and fundamentally changing the infrastructure of cities worldwide.

Our advisory practice provides a link between management consultancy and traditional engineering consultancy roles. We specialise in solving the most challenging strategic issues, typically encompassing future business strategies, delivery models, deployment of technology and investment choices across our four specialist teams. We provide a whole life offer from initial consultancy services at the feasibility stage through to service delivery.

The Central Rail Systems Alliance is formed by partners Network Rail, Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and TSO. Together we are responsible for the delivery of multi-disciplinary railway upgrade projects on the North West & Central, and Eastern regions of Network Rail’s recently devolved routes.

The programme of works delivered by the teams is valued at £2bn and manages the development, design and delivery of Switches and Crossings and Plain Line renewals as its core business but is also responsible for the delivery of major enhancement projects.