WS Atkins plc

UK growth markets

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Analyst breakfast

28 March 2017

Nick Roberts

UK and Europe, chief executive officer

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Overview

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The market

• UK Government has reaffirmed its commitment to key national projects in its recently announced industrial strategy

• Large project pipeline includes High Speed 2, Crossrail 2, Hinkley Point C and Heathrow expansion

• Well funded regulatory cycles in rail, roads and water with attractive growth opportunities

Atkins

• Multi disciplinary offering with differentiation through our technical excellence, increasing use of technology and our global design centres

• Strong position and delivery track record in a market with good growth opportunities.

What we do

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Transportation• Highways and intelligent

transport systems

• Rail and urban transport

• Aviation

Infrastructure• Urban development

• Buildings

• Water and environment

• Education

Aerospace, Defence,

Security and Technology

(ADS&T)• Aerospace

• Defence and security

• Technology solutions and

services

• Business consulting

Energy• Nuclear

• Power and renewables

Our markets and clients

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A well balanced portfolio (£944m revenue)

Revenue by sector

Rail (including mass transit) Defence and security

Highways Water and environment

Aeropsace and aviation Education

Urban development Buildings

Other

34%

15%14%

8%

7%

6%

9%

3%

4%

Revenue by client type

Public sector:local government

Public sector: national government

Regulated

Private sector

31%

28%

27%

14%

• UK segment includes F+G, our project and programme management

business

Financial performance

• UK segment includes F+G, our project and programme management business

• H1 2017 UK and Europe operating margin of 8.7%.

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Continuing operations Disposals

Operational excellence and portfolio optimisation success

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Our focus

Operational excellence

• Organisational re-shaping and consolidation

• Measures to improve productivity

Portfolio optimisation

• Highways services

• Poland

• Portugal

Sector growth

• Terramar acquisition

• Organic investment.

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2011 to 2016

Our focus

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Ongoing operational excellence initiatives

Digital opportunities

• Digital asset management

• Intelligent mobility

• Cyber

Four key growth markets

• Strategic highways

• Water

• Defence

• High speed rail.

2017 and beyond

Growth through differentiation

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Our investment in Intelligent Mobility, Digital Engineering and

Digital Asset Management increasingly recognised by our clients.

Well-positioned to build on the strength and depth of our client

relationships, develop strategic partnerships and relationships with

contractors and other supply chain partners, to deliver added value

services and propositions

Collaboration

Client

relationships

Technology

Our clients value our unique ability to bring experience and best

practice expertise from across the different market sectors in

which Atkins operates and from our global design centres

Strategic highways

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Total capital spend per annum across strategic highways of £3.4bn

Strategic highways – 7,500 miles of strategic highways in UK,

including 4,500 miles in England

Core design services

• Strategic highways improvements – UK wide

• Smart Motorways programme

Advisory and consultancy services

• Author of Highways England’s strategic economic growth plan

• Route strategy work to inform second Road Investment Strategy 2 (2020-2025)

• Asset valuation services for all four UK Strategic Highway Authorities.

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Strategic highwaysMarket overview

Atkins’ addressable spend in UK strategic

highways estimated in excess of £400m per annum

Strategic highways

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Our clients

Strategic highways

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Opportunities for growth

Highways England capital spend expected to grow at 11% CAGR (2017 to

2020)

• 4% CAGR expected on consultancy fees over the same funding period

• Maintain 20% market share in design services and increase our share

in consultancy services across specialist and operational areas

• Growing spend with Transport Scotland and Welsh Government

• New opportunities based on our ability to mesh technology with legacy

infrastructure - intelligent mobility, digital asset management.

Strategic highways

• An integrated, collaborative approach with our JV partner (CH2M)

• Design will create £70m of construction efficiencies

• Significant design delivery from our global design centres

• Virtual reality modelling from BIM to allow ‘drive through’ of completed scheme

• Commitment to deliver a full digital legacy for operation and maintenance.

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Current project - A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon

Water

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Water

• Water market is changing rapidly in response to market reforms and

outcome-based regulation

• Major frameworks with water utility companies in England and Wales

through AMP6 and AMP7 spending cycles

• AMP6 (2015-2020) totex of £44bn, work in preparation for AMP7

• Scotland and Northern Ireland capital spend of £4.5bn (2015-2021)

• Environment Agency spend £2.3bn (2015-2021)

• International engineering services market, downstream from Acuity.

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Market overview

Atkins’ addressable spend in UK water market

estimated at £500m per annum

Water

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Our clients

Water

Market growth driven by increasing water scarcity, population

growth/urbanisation, climate change/flooding and carbon reduction

Development of new digital value propositions and innovative commercial

models linked to delivery of client outcomes

• Around 15% market share of £500m per annum addressable spend across

the UK

• Digital asset management and cyber capability with our key water clients

Skills, knowledge and expertise export to drive our growth in the global water

market

• Atkins currently has less than 1% of our estimate of addressable spend of

£500m+ per annum for our services offered out of the UK

• Delivering engineering services downstream of Acuity.

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Opportunities for growth

Water

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• An alliance delivering £2-3bn of essential works for Thames Water

– the UK's largest water and wastewater services provider (15m

customers)

• Alliance members are incentivised on the basis of collective

performance, with incentives aligned to Thames AMP6 outcomes

• Partnership comprises Thames Water, Balfour Beatty, Skanska,

MWH, Costain, Black & Veatch and IBM.

Eight2O alliance

Water

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• New £4.3bn, 25km tunnel – biggest infrastructure project ever

undertaken by the UK water industry

• JV between Atkins and Arup appointed to provide design services into

the delivery JV for the West section

• £416m West section covers 7 sites on 6km stretch between Acton and

Wandsworth

• Connecting new super sewer into existing Thames Water network

• Completion is scheduled for 2022.

Thames Tideway Tunnel – West section

Carnwarth Road

riverside worksite - main

drive site for West

Tunnel boring machine

Defence

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Defence

Design, engineering and project

management expertise to the UK Ministry of

Defence:• Four front line commands

• Defence Equipment & Support organisation

• Defence Infrastructure organisation

• Defence Science &Technology Laboratory

Mechanical design and analysis of systems used on planes, ships, submarines and land vehicles

Procurement of military equipment

Advising on through-life management of

military equipment and infrastructure

Design of new facilities/infrastructure,

particularly nuclear related facilities.22

Market overview

Front line commands

Defence equipment and support

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Other

Defence industry

Split of £750m of addressable

spend

Defence

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Our clients

• Increasing defence equipment spending by £12bn over the next decade (to £178bn)

• Additional £2.5bn counter-terrorism spending

• Increase in spending on cyber security totalling £1.9bn by 2020

• The UK’s nuclear deterrent will be renewed

• Specific initiatives:

− DE&S support with their new ‘balanced matrix’ model

− Submarine enterprise support

− Digital Asset Management as a Service

− Cyber security and resilience

− MOD ICT implementation support

− Intelligent mobility in the military space.

Defence

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Opportunities for growth

Atkins’ addressable

spend in the defence

market estimated

at £750m, increasing

to £1bn in 5 years.

*National Security Strategy & Strategic Defence and Security Review, November 2015

“The threats to our country are growing ... the world is more

dangerous and uncertain today than five years ago”*

Defence

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Armoured Fighting Vehicles

• £4.5bn procurement of next

generation Armoured Fighting

Vehicles (currently known as Scout)

for the Army

• First ever digitally enabled platform

with step change military capability

• Atkins provide the specialist

engineering expertise to support the

MOD’s procurement.

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under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

High speed rail

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High speed rail

• In the UK high speed rail (HSR) means HS2, although this

includes a wide range of associated transport and

infrastructure opportunities

• Agreed capital spend budget for HS2 of £55.7bn (phase 1 and

2 including rolling stock), we estimate our addressable market

at £2.5bn

• Major high speed schemes in Scandinavia (£35bn of projects

between 2017 and 2035), the US and Asia, we will build on the

expertise and experience gained on HS2.

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Market overview

Global high speed rail

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Opportunities for growth

Export opportunities where we can offer a clear differentiator for

example in the delivery model, specialist skills or a compelling

value proposition.

£1.78 trillion in value of high speed projects planned including

Asia Pacific £718bn

Europe £579bn

Middle East & Africa £204bn

North America £253bn

High speed rail

• Valued at £250-350m over 10 years

• Joint venture with CH2M and SENER;

Atkins share = 40%

• Scope (civils, stations, planning and

environment, railway systems):

• Preparation/evaluation of tenders for the main works

contracts, enabling works start-up

• Design management, assurance and integration

• Technical approvals and BIM compliance

• Programme, contract and construction management

• Environmental management and planning consents

• Support to stakeholder management and public consultation

• Contract extendable through to commissioning

and operation.

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HS2 Engineering Delivery Partner

Extending deep and sustained client relationships

• Highways England

New propositions, notably digital

• digital asset management in the water and defence industries

New revenue opportunities in growing markets

• defence

• strategic highways

Market share opportunities

Export opportunities for UK expertise

• water

• high speed rail.

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Key take-awaysOpportunities for growth

Summary

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The market

• UK Government has reaffirmed its commitment to key national projects in its recently announced industrial strategy

• Large project pipeline includes High Speed 2, Crossrail 2, HinkleyPoint C and Heathrow expansion

• Well funded regulatory cycles in rail, roads and water with attractive growth opportunities

Atkins

• Multi disciplinary offering with differentiation through our technical excellence, increasing use of technology and our global design centres

• Strong position and delivery track record in a market with good growth opportunities.

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