“Our way of operating is fully inclusive, getting the best from every team and every individual.” AWE is very proud to announce that today we have been accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department of Work & Pensions.  It’s very timely as 3rd December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The […]

We are delighted to announce that the AWE Quality team won Team of the Year at the International Quality Awards, hosted by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) at London’s prestigious Connaught Rooms. The International Quality Awards celebrates excellence in the Quality sector. Judged via a rigorous evidence-based process, these awards acknowledge the contribution of the […]

AWE Charity Fund has made a donation to support the Woodland’s Trust Pledge to Plant a million trees for The Big Climate Fightback campaign. As part of AWE’s commitment to be a responsible business we have donated over 400 tree saplings to our staff and local community in exchange for a small donation to our […]

As part of our activities to support national  Road Safety Week we have been helping our local schools spread the message by supporting them in their own campaigns to raise awareness with pupils in their schools. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Step up for Safe Streets” and we donated some junior road safety […]

MOD Quality Awards 2019 At a ceremony held in Bristol on 5 November, AWE won four awards in this year’s prestigious MOD Quality Awards. This is a great achievement for the business. In total the MOD gave out 14 awards across industry and various departments within the MOD and Armed Forces. The judges also chose […]

AWE has awarded a contract to Cray to install a new supercomputer using their new Shasta computer architecture. The name Vulcan was chosen after a vote by staff who will be using the system. Vulcan certainly packs a punch, featuring 5000 processors based upon 32-core, 2.9 GHz, second-generation AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ sockets, with a theoretical […]

The Autumn edition of ‘Connect’ – the newsletter for our neighbours, is out now. Read all about how we’re recruiting for our next intake of graduates, as well as how successful the 2019 Primary Science Challenge was this year. Read ‘Connect’- November 2019

Year nine pupils from eight different schools competed to win the AWE Schools Engineering Challenge last week.  To win, the pupils were tested by AWE graduates on their engineering prowess via a number of challenges. The pupils had to create a hydroelectric generator, by designing and making a turbine, its housing unit, and the magnetic […]

AWE’s Director, Infrastructure Projects Delivery, Alison Atkinson has today (Oct 17) been recognised as the sixth most influential woman in engineering, by Inclusive Boards, in partnership with the Financial Times. Alison sits on the AWE Board and has responsibility for the delivery of AWE’s multi-billion pound capital investment programme, involving the design, construction and commissioning […]

AWE’s Head of Product Assurance, Graham Hughes, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering He is one of 54 leading engineers, from the UK and around the world, who have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the […]

AWE welcomes the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report 2018/19 published today (11 Oct) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).   The AWE sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield remain in enhanced regulatory attention for the 2018/19 period. This has been in part due to continued operations in ageing facilities while replacements with modern safety standards […]

October 10, 2019 is World Mental Health Day and in support, AWE staff members have shared their experiences with mental health. We applaud them for having the courage to share their very personal stories and we hope that by talking openly about mental health their stories can help someone else. As an organisation AWE is […]

Queen Mary’s College (QMC) is celebrating a new-look Primary Science Centre thanks to an exciting collaboration with AWE. The revamped centre was opened on Wednesday 25 September by TV personality and maths whiz, Johnny Ball, who opened the original facility 20 years ago. Johnny is a passionate advocate of STEM* education for young people and […]

AWE’s Chief Operating Officer, Haydn Clulow has been appointed as an industry representative member of the Nuclear Industry Council (NIC). The NIC is a joint forum between the nuclear industry and government and its primary role is to provide strategic leadership to the nuclear industry. The Council is co-chaired by Dr Tim Stone CBE, Chairman […]

AWE had a stand at Reading Pride for the first time this year and AWE’s team of volunteers are already looking forward to the next one! The colourful AWE stand was very busy, attracting visitors from the start of the event and the interactive science area was particularly popular with families. The volunteer team had […]

Sandia and AWE are looking to the future and have signed a Strategic Intent of Collaboration to cement their ongoing relationship. Steve Girrens, Sandia’s associate labs director for nuclear deterrence, visited AWE in June and the document was signed during his visit. Dave Chambers, AWE’s director for science, engineering and technology, was co-signatory, on behalf […]

Iain Coucher, CEO, talks about why it is important for companies and individuals to continue learning. “I am incredibly humbled to accept an honorary doctorate from Cranfield University. This is recognition of the 5,500 women and men of AWE who are proud of their role in supporting the defence of the nation. AWE is blessed […]

Brookfields Special School in Tilehurst have been fundraising to buy an adaptive tricycle for pupils with mobility problems and visual impairment.  The tricycle allows pupils in wheelchairs or with visual impairment to take part in cycling activities which both help to improve their mobility and to enjoy an activity which is normally inaccessible to them. […]

Graduates from AWE recently encouraged pupils from Berkshire and Hampshire to enter this year’s AWE Primary Science Challenge. The annual challenge is run in partnership with the educational charities’ Educational Business Partnership West Berkshire (EBPWB) and the Basingstoke Consortium. AWE’s Dr Claire Leppard – project sponsor said “I have been involved in the graduate project […]

A team of AWE graduates worked with pupils from nine* local schools in the 2019 Royal Institution Engineering Masterclass series. Thirty teens (aged 13-14) took up the six-week challenge, which was hosted at The Hurst Community College, Baughurst. Students from different schools were placed in five teams, competing against each other for the first five […]