Land

Shaping defense estates of the future.

Equipping the armed forces with essential infrastructure and modern facilities is a complex task. 

The delivery of defense estates brings unique challenges: you need to adapt to rapidly changing geopolitics, equipment platforms, and technologies as well as meet critical operational deadlines. 

Different stakeholders have different priorities, and the long lead times to plan, design, and build the required infrastructure bring added complexity. 

Through close collaboration, we navigate these challenges to deliver modern estates, including workplaces, training facilities, and accommodation for personnel and their families. 

What can we do for you?

From single buildings to major bases for thousands of personnel, we are experienced at tackling challenges on projects of all shapes and sizes, to support and enable land-based forces. We can help:

Define your shared needs. Working with you and your stakeholders, we identify desired outcomes. Setting a guiding star in this way helps establish a project that will fulfill everyone’s expectations, including those of the end user.  

Uncover hidden value. Through our culture of innovation and use of digital tools, we can unlock smarter, more cost-efficient solutions that add value for military end users, society, and the environment.

Build in adaptability and flexibility. By thinking long term about how technologies and requirements may change, we develop infrastructure that will support a flexible defense capability ready to address the challenges of a changing world.   

Services we provide

Strategic land defense engineering for operational success

The breadth and depth of our advisory and technical capabilities enable us to support you every step of the way, turning concepts into reality and maximizing the performance and value of assets over their working life. 

Our experience

We have over four decades of experience in the defense sector, spanning infrastructure projects across the globe. Our recent work has included:

  • Five Eyes and NATO
    We are defense consultant to the Five Eyes Security Alliance and NATO in support of their domestic and overseas programs.
  • Leuchars Station Army Basing Program, UK
    We developed the designs for new and refurbished facilities that converted a former RAF base for use by the British Army.
  • RAF Lakenheath, UK
    We acted as the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s delivery partner for the ongoing £350 million subprogram, delivering infrastructure for the arrival of the first F-35 aircraft at RAF Lakenheath, which hosts the US Visiting Forces in the UK.
  • Site development plans, Cyprus
    We are creating 25-year development plans for multiple sites hosting British Forces in Cyprus, shaping an ongoing program to improve facilities for service personnel and their families on the island.
  • US Navy military installations
    Mott MacDonald and STV were selected to perform architectural and engineering services for traffic and transportation planning projects at military installations across the Mid-Atlantic region.
  • Wildcat infrastructure at RNAS Yeovilton, UK
    We managed the design, procurement, and construction of this £100 million project to enhance Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton as an operational base for the Wildcat helicopter, serving both the Royal Navy and the British Army.

Land Management

Land Management captures and makes available information about land ownership and access that is essential for smooth project development. The solution records and provides instant access to these details, plus information on surveys and stakeholder communications. 

Safe by Design

Safe by Design visualizes a project in 3D. Hazards can be geolocated, categorized, scored, and filtered. Risks are represented geospatially by hazard warning triangles. It provides a single source of information, enabling focused conversations with stakeholders. Dashboard visualization makes it easy to set and track key performance indicators and to benchmark performance against similar projects.