WS ATKINS / ATKINS (established 1938)
William Sydney ATKINS (1902 – 1989)
1902 William ATKINS born in London | 1938-50 founds and manages “WS ATKINS & PARTNERS”, establishes office in Westminster, London | ~1982 serves as the company’s chairman | 1966 was appointed a “Commander of the Order of the British Empire” (CBE) | 1976 was knighted |1989 he died | 1996 “WS ATKINS” was admitted to the “London Stock Exchange” | 1980s and early 1990s WS ATKINS plays a key role in the engineering of the “Channel Tunnel” (completed 1994) | late 1990s ATKINS works on the hotel “Burj al Arab” (completed 1999)
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