Atkins operating profits fell by 20% in the six months to the end of September to £24.6M, compared with £30.9M over the same period last year. This was on a falling UK revenue over the same period of £420.4M, down from £454.7M, Construction News reported.
Staff numbers for the firm also fell by 878 to 9,449 for the six months ending September 2011. Whilst the firm said ‘ the UK market remained challenging’, the firm was giving a ‘stable’ outlook for its UK business, with work in hand slightly up on this time last year, stated Construction News.
Meanwhile, Skanska and Mace are battling to win 30 Old Bailey and 60 Ludgate, a £120M, 375,000 sq.ft mixed-use office/ retail development near London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, designed by Anglo-German architects Sauerbruch Hutton.
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