Canada-based SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. said Sept. 12 it has renamed the firm as AtkinsRéalis, to “bring its brands together” and “transform the company permanently,” President and CEO Ian Edwards told ENR.

The play on the name of its Atkins subsidiary, the UK-based engineer acquired in 2017, highlights the parent firm’s "transition to an engineering focus,” it said, but retains its Montreal headquarters and corporate roots in French-speaking Quebec that date to 1911.