Great news for the international infrastructure group Balfour Beatty. The company has won a contract with by BAE Systems, the leading global defence company, to carry out the £82.5m contract to build their engineering and training facilities at a site in Norfolk. The RAF Marham in Norfolk will be getting
Most recently the Balfour Beatty Vinci JV has announced its selection for the design partnership in delivering the project for HS2 – specifically, the Mott MacDonald – Systra JV, seeing synchronisation in the British and French pairing of contractor to consulting engineer. It is of no surprise that Mott MacDonald
Great news for the international infrastructure group Balfour Beatty. The company has won a contract with by BAE Systems, the leading global defence company, to carry out the £82.5m contract to build their engineering and training facilities at a site in Norfolk. The RAF Marham in Norfolk will be getting new state of the art facilities in preparation for the arrival of the first F-35 Lightning II aircraft in the UK, the aircraft is set to be in the UK by 2018. The news has been well accepted since the announcement in March 2013 from the Secretary of State for Defence confirming that RAF Marham would soon become the chief operating station for the F-35 Lightning II jets of the UK’s fleet. The Balfour Beatty will be constructing 3 new facilities on behalf of BAE Systems to support the appearance of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft in 2018, the new builds include an Integrated Training Centre, Logistics Operations Centre and a Maintenance and Finishing Facility. The company will be utilising digital tools like 4D modelling and BIM throughout the construction of the 25,000m2 technical accommodation across three individual sites on the base. Balfour Beatty MD of UK Construction Services, Dean Banks, stated that they were committed to making the development a success. He mentioned the company had an excellent track record BAE Systems and their history of delivering defence projects in the UK. Their expertise in the industry of defence and aviation stemmed their progress in successfully acquiring new bigger projects. The company developed technically advanced delivery solutions, in an aim to ensure the RAF Marham’s operational capability is maintained efficiently throughout the construction activities on the base. Balfour Beatty has worked with the UK Ministry of Defence’s Lightning Project Team and BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Royal Air Forces Marham over the past 6 months as one of their Preferred Suppliers.
Most recently the Balfour Beatty Vinci JV has announced its selection for the design partnership in delivering the project for HS2 – specifically, the Mott MacDonald – Systra JV, seeing synchronisation in the British and French pairing of contractor to consulting engineer. It is of no surprise that Mott MacDonald has been selected for the project, with the company having a great deal of experience in the high-speed rail sector globally, as well as its noted involvement in HS2 for the past six years – this has seen the company provide a wide range of engineering, environmental and planning services. On a global scale, Mott MacDonald has been working on a number of leading high-speed projects, including the management of environmental, public consultation and engineering for the Palmdale – Los Angeles segment for the California High Speed Train Project; additionally also providing engineering design services for the segment between Palmdale and Fresno. Mott MacDonald has also been working on the Taipei – Kaohsiung system in China, as well as the HSL Zuid system for the Netherlands. As for Systra, it is notable that the organisation has seen involvement in every single rail line for France, as well as 50% of those around the globe, making the company’s addition to the HS2 delivery team again, a logical choice. Most specifically, the company has been involved in Crossrail as well as the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme, and serves as a piece of the design consortium for the South East Atlantic High Speed line, also with Vinci. As for those contractors yet to be appointed to the packages for the main civil engineering side of the works, it is predicted that these will be revealed further into 2016, coming just in time for the enabling works to begin next year and previous to the commencement of the civil engineering side of works on phase one – between West Midlands and London itself.
