Air
Air forces must be able to deploy rapidly across the globe, providing an ever-ready capability in a complex world.
The infrastructure to maintain that capability requires careful planning and development through programmes that last many years. Yet shifts in geopolitics and technology often happen on much shorter timescales.
Getting air defence infrastructure programmes right is a balancing act. You need to bring stakeholders together, get the technical details right first time, and keep on track with schedules and budgets, while remaining adaptable to challenges from a changing environment.
What can we do for you?
Mott MacDonald can act as your partner, helping to navigate this complexity to shape and successfully deliver air defence infrastructure.
Provide clarity through collaboration. By bringing a collaborative and open mindset, we engage end users and stakeholders to clarify the programme vision and objectives, requirements, challenges and opportunities – creating focus.
Build in agility. We can help you plan the development of your infrastructure programme throughout its lifecycle, building in flexibility and adaptability so that you are ready to respond to future uncertainties.
Offer technical excellence. Whether we are designing infrastructure or providing assurance and oversight with supply chain partners, we have the technical expertise and attention to detail to deliver the right projects the right way, and the management know-how to keep the whole project team focused on your desired outcomes.
RAF Lakenheath, UK. We acted as the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s (DIO) delivery partner for the ongoing £350M F-35 Sub-programme, delivering infrastructure for the arrival of the first F-35 aircraft at RAF Lakenheath.
Innovative air defence systems for modern security
Our multidisciplinary offering runs from the strategic to the technical. We work on projects of every scale, from individual aircraft hangars or buildings to multi-year air base programmes worth billions of pounds, and we can support air defence programmes and infrastructure at every stage of the project lifecycle.
Our experience
We have over four decades of defence sector experience and work on air infrastructure projects in Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australasia. Our recent work has included:
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Arnold Air Force Base, USAFor a new vehicle fuelling station, we designed tanks, piping, fuel truck loading and unloading stations, fuel dispensers, emergency fuel shutoff system, canopies, roadways, and more.
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Five Eyes and NATOWe are defence consultant to the Five Eyes Security Alliance and NATO in support of their domestic and overseas programmes.
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RAF Akrotiri, CyprusWe produced an estate development plan for this air base used by British Forces in Cyprus, showing how infrastructure could be improved over 25 years to benefit service personnel and their families.
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RAF Lakenheath, UKWe acted as the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s delivery partner for the ongoing £350M F-35 sub-programme, delivering infrastructure for the arrival of the first F-35 aircraft at RAF Lakenheath, which hosts the US Visiting Forces in the UK.
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RAF Lossiemouth, UKWe delivered a detailed design for runway surfaces and infrastructure that enabled RAF Lossiemouth to accommodate larger modern aircraft and supported successful construction against a challenging schedule.
Carbon Portal
Identify, calculate, and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions. This infrastructure carbon calculator is aligned to PAS 2080, the international specification for managing carbon across the built environment (co-authored by Mott MacDonald). It allows anyone across your business and supply chain to identify and calculate carbon emissions, not just carbon experts.
