Atkins Highways & Transportation has promoted Chris Hendy to be head of bridge design and technology. He had been group manager for special structures for the past four years in the company's TE Epsom office. Hendry's team designed the award-winning New Medway Bridge in Kent and his paper on the project was recently named by the Institution of Civil Engineers as its best bridge paper of 2004. One of his particular fields of expertise is in the use of and background to the structural Eurocodes.