AtkinsRéalis Heritage service

Our Heritage team provides expert advice and planning services to clients throughout the world, ranging from national governments, statutory agencies and local authorities, to charitable trusts, private developers and individuals, often drawing on our design, engineering, sustainability, ecology and other colleagues to provide a comprehensive range of services.
The heritage team of Atkins consists of 20 specialists that include: heritage managers, archaeologists, historians, building archaeologists, cultural tourism consultants, and interpretation planners. We understand the complex nature of programmes, large or small, and have a proven track record in delivering innovative solutions to our clients, and support them in meeting the challenges of managing critical projects. Our work is very much at the cutting edge of our profession, and we have acquired a hard-won reputation as one of the UK’s leading heritage consultancies, renowned for our technical excellence, thought leadership, and robust consultancy advice.

Our range of capabilities is based on a broad platform of major projects experience and includes the following:

- Archaeological consultancy and advice for development projects
- Project Management and client-side representation for major cultural projects and capital schemes
- Environmental impact assessment, expert witness and due diligence
- Listed Building, Scheduled Monument and Conservation Area consent applications
- Feasibility studies, business and funding plans, and option appraisals
- HLF project facilitation, application advice and report delivery
- World Heritage Site nomination and management advice
- Heritage-led regeneration and masterplanning
- Conservation Management Planning
- Historic landscape and townscape characterisation
- Research and policy development
- Sustainability and climate change adaptation advice for heritage assets
- Public consultation, stakeholder and community engagement
- Advice on the governance of cultural organisations
- Heritage tourism strategy and development
- Interpretation and museum development
- Heritage design advice for large infrastructure projects affecting designated assets and World Heritage Sites
- Museums, archives and collections management studies