Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 15 September 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]
Today,
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, launched a White Paper
entitled “Re-imagining Transport and Mobility for a Sustainable Economic
Recovery”. The White Paper, which is developed by Atkins’ advisory
business arm, Atkins Acuity, outlines the COVID-19 impact on the
transport industry and provides a strategic framework to transition from
short term recovery to a medium-to-long term transformation to achieve
resilience and sustainability.
With lockdowns and restrictions on
economic and social activity lifting, the challenge is how to maintain
re-opening safely, restore business and consumer confidence and provide
the right economic and fiscal stimulus which will support the early
stages of a viable recovery towards the end of the year and into 2021.
However, the transport industry in the GCC has the opportunity to
re-shape its infrastructure, services and operations through the
adoption of diagnostic tools, data analytics, planning principles and
digital engineering to achieve improved outcomes and a better future.
Johan
Hesselsøe, Managing Director, UAE, at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins, commented:
“In the UAE, we have seen an increased focus beyond COVID-19 on creating
sustainable infrastructure and transport systems that enhance the
wellbeing of residents and minimize environmental impacts. We are
working closely with our clients to navigate current challenges and
achieve their long-term goals by providing our engineering, design and
project management expertise combined with digital capabilities.”
Ian
Redmayne, Managing Director, KSA at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins, added:
“Despite the challenges caused by COVID-19, the crisis has reinforced
the need for economic diversification in the Kingdom to foster
socio-economic development in line with Saudi’s Vision 2030. With a
proven track record in Saudi Arabia, we are proud to support this vision
by sharing our market knowledge and expertise and working together with
the public and private sectors to shape sustainable communities of the
future.”
Through collaboration of SNC-Lavalin’s transport
planning and strategic advisory experts across the world, the White
Paper presents a three-phase model: Reopen – Recover – Reimagine. This
frames how the transport sector should respond to the unprecedented
socio-economic shock inflicted by COVID-19, as well as impacts of low
oil prices on GCC exports and finances. Looking beyond the immediate
crisis, SNC-Lavalin’s reimagined approach to the future of transport
brings together a broader agenda combining three pillars of land use,
physical mobility and digital connectivity and comprises eight
cross-cutting building blocks.
Jonathan Spear, Director,
Strategic Transport Policy and Planning at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins Acuity,
commented: “Across the world and the GCC, COVID-19 continues to cause
short-term disruption to transport infrastructure and services, and pose
challenges to organisations within the sector. However, the pandemic
also offers the opportunity to reimagine
a new paradigm for a
more sustainable, equitable and resilient transport system and
experience. Through our eight building blocks, and by adopting
innovative mobility and connectivity concepts, technologies and service
models, the industry in the GCC has the opportunity to take bold
decisions around planning, delivery, collaboration and regulation and
reshape the transport of the future.”
The White Paper is the
second edition of ‘COVID-19 and Transport’ series by SNC-Lavalin. In May
2020, the Company issued the first edition of the White Paper entitled
“Keeping our World Moving Before and After the Crisis”. Currently,
SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins is supporting a number of clients in the transport
sector in the Middle East by providing end-to-end business advisory,
design and engineering, and project management services underpinned by
digital tools and innovative solutions.
Click here to read and download full White Paper.
About Atkins Acuity
Acuity
is the end-to-end advisory business from SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins. Atkins
Acuity combines management consulting, financing and technical
capabilities to help clients solve complex front- end problems in the
built environment. We help to successfully deliver our clients’ big
ambitions for infrastructure and energy, worldwide. We use a
results-driven and engineering-led approach, to make our partnerships
higher value and more rewarding. Together, our core areas of expertise
enable us to deliver seamless, results-driven advisory solutions.
About Atkins
Atkins
(www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world’s most respected design,
engineering and project management consultancies, employing over
18,300 people across the UK, North America, Middle East and Africa, Asia
Pacific and Europe. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a
world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas.
You can view Atkins’ recent projects here.
About SNC-Lavalin
Founded
in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a fully integrated professional services and
project management company with offices around the world. SNC-Lavalin
connects people, technology and data to help shape and deliver
world-leading concepts and projects, while offering comprehensive
innovative solutions across the asset lifecycle. Our expertise is
wide-ranging — consulting & advisory, intelligent networks &
cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project &
construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning
and sustaining capital – and delivered to clients in four strategic
sectors: EDPM (engineering, design and project management),
Infrastructure, Nuclear and Resources, supported by Capital. People.
Drive. Results. www.snclavalin.com
Contacts
Zeina Kourki
Manager, PR & Digital Communications
SNC-Lavalin - Middle East & Arica
Zeina.Kourki@snclavalin.com
+971 50 918 6079
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