Guest: Richard Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, UK & Europe, Atkins

In this podcast we talk about “The role of the modern engineering consultancy”. Over the last decade or so we have seen the world of engineering consultancy change dramatically as the market has consolidated to create a small number of super large globally focused multi-discipline consultancies backed by a large number of very small number of specialists. Clients perhaps benefit from a single point of contact but what has been the impact on innovation and agility?

To discuss this issue, my guest is Richard Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, UK & Europe at Atkins, which, as part of the Canadian SNC Lavalin group since 2017, and with 20,000 staff across the UK and around the world, is certainly one of the largest consultancies in the UK.