Our Company
Atkin has been a constant source of support for asset and facility owners, operators, tenants, professional advisors and institutions for almost 30 years through its diligent pursuit of innovative thinking and practices on behalf of its clients and sponsors.
Longstanding clients include a global energy company, major international construction company, three top-100 universities (globally), a leading risk analyst and a national standards body.
Atkin has been the intelligence and driving force behind several highly successful initiatives, studies and projects, which have helped to enhance the reputation of our clients. We are happy to work in support as part of the client’s team.
How we work
Our radically-different approach to knowledge brokering, corporate foresight and competence development has led to step-changes and an improved competitive edge for our clients.
Challenging the status quo is something we do routinely as a natural part of our role as thinkers and doers at the leading edge of competence development. Our background in research and development has forged a unique skill-set and instilled a discipline that is used to cut through the noise to focus on the root causes of problems and then to devise the most appropriate solutions.
Our approach to business places our clients’ interests at the fore. The confidential nature of our appointments means that we refrain from self-promotion involving social media. We are happy to work for agents as well as principals, provided there is no conflict of interest.
Details of our track-record and examples of our work with, and support for, various clients are available on request to bona fide inquirers.
An early success for the Company – back in 1995 – was its ground-breaking, independent study report into the UK’s rail network and the investment needed to create a modern, decent railway. The report – Investing in Britain’s Railways – was hailed by all sides, except the government of the day, as a blueprint for the future. It resulted in a parliamentary question and debate, which is forever recorded in Hansard. We would like to think that it contributed in a modest way to reversing years of under-investment and decline.
Other successes followed with studies and reports for the National Audit Office, nuclear industry and major construction firms, participation in large-scale research and development programmes (with support from the UK government and European Commission), plus numerous other projects.
