Land

Shaping defence estates of the future.

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

The delivery of defence 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 these 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 fulfil 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 defence capability ready to address the challenges of a changing world.   

Services we provide

Strategic land defence 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 maximising the performance and value of assets over their working life. 

Our experience

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

  • Estate development plans, Cyprus
    We are creating 25-year estate development plans for multiple sites hosting British Forces in Cyprus, shaping an ongoing programme to improve facilities for service personnel and their families on the island.
  • Five Eyes and NATO
    We are defence consultant to the Five Eyes Security Alliance and NATO in support of their domestic and overseas programmes.
  • Leuchars Station Army Basing Programme, 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 £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.
  • US Navy military installations, USA
    Mott MacDonald and STV have been 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 £100M 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. 

A train traveling across a bridge in a more rural area.