Atkins has announced three senior hires, including the appointment of the chair of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Richard Bonner joins the global engineering, planning and design consultancy’s Bristol office at Aztec West business park as its new market director for buildings and places.
Mr Bonner has worked in the infrastructure sector for 30 years, most recently as a Northern Cities director for Arcadis. Atkins said he will work across a number of portfolios including central and local government, education, commercial and residential and metros and stations.