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WS Atkins has acquired MG Bennett & Associates, the Rotherham-based engineering design company with 30 staff, for £2.5m. 07-Oct-2008 WS Atkins has acquired Nedtech Engineering, the Dutch aerospace consultancy with annual turnover of £3.5m. 04-Dec-2007 WS Atkins has acquired Intelligent Space Partnership, the London-based transport and urban development consultancy with 18 staff. 07-Sep-2007 Lambert Smith Hampton, the commercial property agency, is to undergo a £46m management buy-out from WS Atkins, with backing from Bank of Scotland Corporate. 27-Jun-2007 WS Atkins has acquired Advantage Business Group, the defence consultancy with 180 staff in Farnham, Bristol, Gainsborough and Aberdeen, for £19m. 20-Mar-2007 WS Atkins has acquired Boreas Consultants, the Aberdeen-based oil and gas services consultancy with 35 staff, for £3.8m. 10-Jan-2007 WS Atkins is looking to recruit an extra 5,000 staff to handle rising demand from China and to benefit from UK-based opportunities offered by the Olympics and higher transport spending. 06-Dec-2005 WS Atkins is to create 30 jobs at its engineering consultancy business on Teesside, taking the local workforce to 300. 22-Jun-2005 WS Atkins is to shed 16 jobs at its Atkins Rail operations in Derby, Crewe and London. 14-Feb-2005 WS Atkins has sold its US architecture and engineering consultancy business to management for £11m. 11-Sep-2003 WS Atkins has sold its Lambert Smith Hampton commercial property operation in Northern Ireland to management for undisclosed terms, creating a new company called BTWShiells with 50 staff. 03-Jul-2003 WS Atkins, the support services consultancy, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed private equity firm. 11-Feb-2003 WS Atkins is expected to receive proposals for a management buy-out at its Lambert Smith Hampton surveying advisory business, which has 33 offices and 1,200 staff. 13-Nov-2002 WS Atkins is to shed 400 jobs from its 15,000-strong worldwide workforce, following a fall in demand for its support services. 03-Oct-2002 WS Atkins is to consolidate its London offices into a newly-acquired 81,700 sq ft site at Euston Tower in the West End. 22-Jul-2002 WS Atkins is to acquire Hanscomb, the US project management consultancy with 375 staff, for about £20m. 28-May-2002 WS Atkins, the support services consultancy, is to set up a new regional headquarters at the Thorpe business park in Leeds, and 350 staff will relocate from two existing sites in the city. 21-May-2002 WS Atkins is to create 50 new jobs at the Westlakes Science Park near Whitehaven, in order to help British Nuclear Fuels deal with nuclear waste. 09-May-2002 WS Atkins has revealed proposals for a £300m Light Rail Transport system in Leicestershire, which, if approved, could be ready by 2011. 22-Mar-2002 WS Atkins is to recruit 500 technicians at two new offices in China to work on railway signal modelling for the West Coast Main Line. 06-Dec-2001 WS Atkins is to create dozens of jobs at its Faithful & Gould project management office at Thornaby on Teesside, having won a contract to help decommission the Dounreay nuclear plant. 14-Aug-2001 WS Atkins is to shed at least 150 jobs in its shared services division, as part of a reorganisation that will centralise its backroom functions at a single site in Worcester. 17-Jul-2001 WS Atkins is to set up a central services facility at King's Court near Worcester, where up to 350 staff will provide group accounting services, IT, human resources, payroll and marketing. 28-Jun-2001 WS Atkins is to acquire ScanRail, the transport consultancy, from the Danish National Railway Agency for £6m. 04-Jun-2001 WS Atkins is forming an alliance with the Royal Bank of Scotland to set up Total Solutions for Industry, a one-stop shop offering design, construction, maintenance and finance packages to industry. 09-Jun-2000 WS Atkins is to conduct an urban design study for the Drake Street area of Rochdale, which will be included in a £25m regeneration programme. 17-Feb-2000 WS Atkins has acquired Benham, the Oklahoma-based architectural company, for £32m, which will increase its US headcount from 60 to 800. 11-Dec-1999 WS Atkins is looking to make an acquisition in the US over the next few months, in order to expand its international consulting engineer and facilities management business. 03-Dec-1999 Marks & Spencer is to invite tenders next year for facilities management contracts at its 300 stores, and WS Atkins will assess the bids. 02-Dec-1999 WS Atkins has acquired Yeoman & Edwards, the quantity surveying practice, for £1.3m. 16-Nov-1999 WS Atkins is planning to acquire the Birmingham office of Adtranz in a deal that includes 113 staff and £72m of signalling work on the West Coast Main Line. 04-Nov-1999 WS Atkins has acquired Ventron Technology, the Stockport-based process engineer, for £2.3m. 08-Oct-1999 WS Atkins has won an engineering design contract from Swansea City Council for a £9m swimming pool scheduled to open in 2001. 23-Sep-1999 Barclays has awarded a two-year facilities management contract to WS Atkins, covering 3,000 bank branches across the country. 22-Jul-1999 WS Atkins has acquired Richard Long Associates, the water industry consultancy. 15-Jul-1999 WS Atkins is to acquire Lambert Smith Hampton, the property consultant, for £50m, as part of a strategy to offer an integrated property service covering everything from land acquisition to demolition. 18-Jun-1999 WS Atkins, the consulting engineer and facilities management company, is looking to spend up to £60m on a US acquisition this year, as part of a strategy to offer a global service. 11-Jun-1999 WS Atkins Consultants has been appointed by the gas industry regulator to evaluate plans by utilities to prevent the disruption of gas supplies by the millennium bomb. 07-Jan-1999 WS Atkins has called off merger talks with P&O's construction division Bovis, although the companies have identified a number of areas where they can work together. 11-Dec-1998 WS Atkins is discussing the acquisition of Bovis Construction from P&O for about £350m. 25-Nov-1998 WS Atkins has begun generating electricity for the National Grid, having refurbished an 18MW diesel-engine power station on the site of the Aldershot military garrison. 27-Oct-1998 WS Atkins Rail is to undertake a feasibility study into the £35m extension of the Docklands Light Railway to London City Airport. 15-Oct-1998 South Manchester Healthcare, a consortium that includes Alfred McAlpine, WS Atkins, Gardner Merchant and Innisfree, has won a £66m private finance initiative contract to design, build and operate a new unit at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. 14-Aug-1998 WS Atkins has won a £45m a year contract to provide maintenance services at 900 jobcentres. 25-Jul-1998 WS Atkins, the consulting engineer, is looking to spend £50m on acquisitions in order to offer complete business solutions to customers in its three core areas of transport, property services and industry. 12-Jun-1998 WS Atkins has acquired Silk & Frazier, the quantity surveying practice, for £5.1m. 17-Mar-1998 WS Atkins, the consulting engineer, is planning a flotation which will value it at up to £200m. 05-Jun-1996 WS Atkins is acquiring Faithful & Gould, the Cleveland quantity surveyors, for £21m. 23-Jan-1996
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