 That same year, it also acquired Faithful+Gould, a cost and project management consultancy firm.Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Atkins played a key role in the engineering of the Channel Tunnel; completed in 1994, it possesses the longest underwater section of any tunnel in the world.During the late 1990s, WS Atkins performed work on the Burj al Arab hotel, which was completed in 1999.