Arcadis is the leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. Arcadis differentiates itself through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. Our experience of working in complex airport environments around the world gives us knowledge and insight into the unique challenges faced by the aviation industry. Our global team offers a complete aviation service from planning through to construction in live operations. We maximize the potential of the airport by creating outcomes-focused strategies, ensuring the business is aligned with continuously changing aviation environments.

Aviation businesses must balance demand and global growth with the need to decarbonise, become more energy and operationally efficient and address climate change. Arup helps clients across the industry to understand how to make their operations and services more sustainable, efficient and resilient, designing for lower energy use and operating costs at the same time. We are working with our aviation clients to help them rethink their business models and operations to maximise social value, ensure supply chains are resilient, develop circular business models, reduce emissions, generate electricity, harvest water and eliminate waste. 

Arup is the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable building, transport and civil engineering projects and design technologies. We offer a broad range of professional services that combine to make a real difference to our clients and the communities in which we work.

We have advised the majority of the world’s leading airports and are recognised globally as a leader in airport masterplanning, delivering airport terminal and support facility designs and specialist aviation services.

We support operators, owners, investors and users to develop safe, secure and sustainable solutions that deliver customer service excellence on a sound commercial basis. We add value to our clients’ business through close stakeholder collaboration and draw on in-depth knowledge to deliver robust, resilient and efficient solutions.

Arup has been involved in aviation development for over 60 years, with experience gained through a wide range of assignments at more than 100 airports worldwide.  Dedicated to sustainable development, the firm is a collective of 16,000 planners, designers, engineers and business advisors working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.  Through strong internal networks we benchmark and share the learning from our global aviation and other sector experience to deliver better solutions for our clients by balancing the needs of people, processes, technology and environment.

Established by a group of industry-leading software development and project management professionals with a lean, agile and innovative approach to project analysis and integrated delivery AAC now operate globally, working in partnership with some of the world’s largest organisations to deliver mission-critical control systems. Our approach allows clients to concentrate on their core business whilst we bring our expertise and experience in project delivery management. The result is reduced operational costs and an improved customer experience. Our philosophy is at the heart of everything we do and has been enhanced over the years to become embedded in our people, culture and values. At AAC we work in partnership with you to focus on the crucial aspects of your business with an eye on future operational and legislative requirements.

Capital Programme Consultancy was established in 2017 and provides executive support to client and contracting organisations in both the nuclear and aviation sectors.

Clients have include Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL),

Birmingham Airport Limited, Manchester Airport Group, Arcadis, and Arup;

Highlights include:

Delivered the Birmingham Airport Next Generation Security Project and the first phase of onsite solar power. Resolving numerous legacy issues with BHS, ILS and the property portfolio.

DeliveredPhase 1 of the London Stanstead Airport £600 million transformation programme in 2019, resolved outstanding commercial issues with the BHS, delivered new stands and a Multi Story Car Park.

Designed simplified project governance and managed delivery of the £1.2 billion Capital Investment Programme at London Gatwick.

Delivered the London Heathrow £.3billion Q6 Capital Investment Programme in 2012.

Delivered the Sao Paulo International Airport (Brazil) new Terminal 3 into operation to support the FIFA World Cup in 2014.

Founded in 1998, Firstco are control and communication systems engineers, specialising in the transportation sector.  Working predominately in airports, railways and intermodal operations our clients include infrastructure owners, operators, engineering consultancies, construction contractors and systems solution providers. Our experience includes the technologies and solutions commonly grouped as Communications, Security, Operational and Control & Monitoring systems, and often referred to as IT, ICT, SAS or ELV systems.

Based in London, we now employ over 80 staff and work extensively across the UK. We have grown into an international consultancy and system integrator with projects in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and we are currently exploring expansion into Asia and America.

As systems engineers we work throughout the asset lifecycle; consulting, delivering and supporting the growing number of technologies used to automate operational people and process.

Working from strategy to operations, Firstco specify, design, deliver, commission, integrate, trial, transition, support and maintain systems. We also specialise in stakeholder, interface, requirements and assurance management which are an increasingly complex and critical part of any infrastructure programme.

By remaining product-independent, we can help our customers to select the right solutions then ensure that they are configured to achieve effective and efficient operations. Our Technical Innovation Group work with emerging technologies and solution/product suppliers to identify opportunities and business benefits for introducing new solutions into high integrity environments.

A modern airport will have more than 150 systems with constantly developing and converging technologies, which are critical to safety, security and operation. In the world of ‘big data’, airport operators require increasing interoperability to efficiently manage their sites, and their stakeholders, regulators and passengers expect and demand easy access to a greater level of real-time data. However, with increasing global security issues and the advent of cyber threats, the need for secure, robust and resilient solutions has never been greater.

As existing airports continue to expand and new airports are constructed, it is imperative that the technology systems are considered from the outset and delivered as an integral part of the overall programme. The prerequisites and interfaces with the architecture, civil engineering, baggage and M&E solutions must be managed throughout to avoid costly delays at the point when the project hands over into the live operational environment.

Firstco’s broad experience over all these technologies, and throughout the entire asset lifecycle allows for a Value Assured Engineering approach to oversee the end-to-end solution, engaging the right specialist contractors at the right time in the process, to ensure quality on-time, on-budget delivery.

Firstco have worked at London Heathrow Airport for 20 years and have been involved throughout the major airport development programmes and in day-to-day operations.

Development programmes include:

•       Terminal 2 and Eastern Campus – Information and Control Systems (ICS)

-       ICS Design Leadership – strategy, scope, requirements, concept

-       ICS Scheme Design – Master Systems Integrator

-       DMI (Design, Manage, Integrate) – ICS technical assurance through delivery

•       Terminal 5

-       T5 Rail & Tunnels Guidance Team – design & commissioning leadership

-       T5 Rail & Tunnels Comms and Controls – design, delivery and integration

-       Airside Road Tunnel – control systems design and project management

-       Energy Centre and Control Tower – commissioning management

•       Heathrow Express

-       Station systems, original design and build, into operation

-       Extension of systems to Terminal 5 subsurface station and tunnels      -    Support and maintenance for 15 years

Engineering and operational solutions include:

Firstco are framework suppliers for SCADA across the airport

•       HEART – utilities control and monitoring

•       Heathrow Pods – automated people movers

•       APOC – airport centralised command and control facility

•       FAMS – centralised fire alarm monitoring across all terminals

•       Campus-wide metering and energy management

•       Baggage Handling Systems (BHS)

Support and maintenance of Heathrow’s systems, including:

•       Heathrow Rail

•       Heathrow Pods

•       FAMS

EMS

In addition to our work at London Heathrow Airport, Firstco have worked on UK aviation projects including:

•       Gatwick Airport – North Terminal redevelopment, Pier 3 expansion options, airfield utilities control & monitoringManchester Airports Group – London Stansted Airport Tracked Transit System (TTS) / Automated People Mover (APM) control system, utilities monitoring

•       Birmingham Airport – Airport Operation Systems specifications

Middle East airports including:

•       UAE – Dubai International, Dubai World Central and Abu Dhabi International

•       Oman – Muscat International and Salalah airports

•       Qatar – New Doha International Airport

•       Saudi Arabia – Jeddah, Madinah and Riyadh airports

•      Other GCC – Kuwait and Bahrain airports

As a market leader in green services, Glendale has extensive experience of developing and delivering modern, forward thinking and effective partnerships throughout the aviation and aerodrome sector. Whether you are an international hub or a small, general aviation, airfield we can offer you innovation, experience and service from a network of offices across the UK.

Our Services

Glendale delivers quality and value through its extensive range of green solutions, including, but not limited to the following services:Airside Maintenance

Landside Maintenance

As well as routine and reactive maintenance services (with a 24-hour Emergency Call Out Service available) Glendale’s teams are available to carry out project work across the facility.Project Work

Moog Navigation and Surveillance Systems (NaSS) are the world leader in ground based navigation systems. Moog acquired Fernau Avionics Limited in 2009 creating Moog Fernau Limited. Moog's current product range includes: Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Automatic Detection, Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), VHF/UHF Doppler Radio Direction-Finders (DF), Naval DF, Auto Triangulation Systems, Fixed Tatical Air Navigation (TACAN) systems, Man Portable TACAN systems, Mobile and Deployable TACAN systems, Mode-S radar transmitters.

Newmark is a global advisory business specialising in optimising non-aeronautical revenue with a focus on retail and real estate. We offer services from optimising your portfolio, new development as well as valuation and land transactions. From F&B to Cargo and Hangars to Hotels we have the global expertise to help you optimise your commercial revenues. Together with our sister company Cantor Fitzgeralsd we can fund and advise investors on optimising assets or acquiring new assets.

Ocean 3D Ltd – Inclusive Innovation Through Interactive Virtual Tours

Ocean 3D are award-winning creators of cloud-based, interactive virtual tours that enhance accessibility, inclusion and user confidence across aviation, transport, healthcare, heritage, and beyond. From airside security to arrivals halls, our tours help passengers—particularly those with hidden or physical conditions such as autism, anxiety, PTSD, or dementia—familiarise themselves with unfamiliar spaces before ever arriving.

Proud members of the BAG Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group, we work to make accessibility an integral part of the passenger experience, not an afterthought.

We were the first business globally without a physical location to receive the National Autistic Society’s ‘Autism Friendly’ award, and winners of the New Civil Engineer’s “Future of Airports” competition. Our tours have featured in international airline magazines and are now being recognised by UK Government legal opinion (Louise Mankau KC, Doughty Street Chambers) as a potential reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act 2010.

Ocean 3D tours are WCAG-compliant, device-friendly, and can support inclusive journey planning, increase footfall, reduce anxiety and support commercial uplift. Our clients include NHS hospitals, Brownsville South APdre Island International Airport (Texas), Lumo Trains, the National Trust, and Theatre Royal Bath.

Inclusion isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s a business opportunity.

PDS deliver and support a comprehensive package of airport services and solutions including high integrity Infrastructure Control Systems with SCADA installations, specialist engineering support including surveys and consultation, packages ranging from individual components to fully integrated turnkey solutions.  With 35 years of experience in the UK transport industry and a 25-year relationship with Heathrow Airport, PDS have experience in lighting and ventilation control, traffic control and monitoring, CCTV, Radar, PA Systems, Airfield & Terminal Security, UPS, Power Monitoring and Runway Condition Monitoring Systems.  We also have a key role in Heathrow's (HEART) Heathrow Airport Remote Telemetry system which monitors and controls airport infrastructure.

Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all.  At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

We believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. Our generation is facing tectonic shift in energy transition and industrial revolution catalysed by accelerated digitisation in a more electric world.  Electricity is the most efficient and best vector for decarbonisation; combined with a circular economy approach, we will achieve a climate-positive impact as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

With over 70 years experience, our mission is to use technology to develop innovative solutions and services which exceed our customer's expectations.  To achieve sustainable year on year growth through providing quality and innovative products and services.  We will provide a strong market message that will be provide our clients with confidence and trust that their needs will be met in full.  Total customer satisfaction will be the heart beat of the business.  Founded in 1950, Todd Research has a proud history of designing, manufacturing and supplying X-ray scanners, metal detectors and blast suppression equipment across a diverse range of public and private market channels.  In recent years we have our customer base into the Aviation Sector in particular the Aviation logistics supply chain.  We have provided X-ray machines from small conveyor machines for screening loose items to machines capable of screening full size pallets.  Our latest product is a purpose built X-ray machine used to screening Airline Carts.

TWW Solutions is a Company founded by Tim Walder and its mission is to provide Strategic Consultancy Services to the Aviation Industry, providing solutions that bring clear benefits to clients. With over 45 years of experience in the construction industry, Tim has successfully led multi-disciplined aviation teams and managed multi-million-pound projects for prestigious organisations and airports worldwide.

Tim is a prominent figure in the UK and European aviation sectors, holding the position of Deputy Chair of the British Aviation Group (BAG) and actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in the industry. His involvement in major projects such as the Heathrow 3rd Runway, Heathrow’s Terminals 5 and 2, the Gatwick 2nd Runway programme, and Manchester Airport’s Transformation Programme demonstrates his extensive expertise and influence.

Tim's contributions internationally span various countries, including Turkey, Ireland, Macau, Portugal, Oman, Turkmenistan, Greece, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Peru, and Abu Dhabi.

Furthermore, his qualification as a life coach in 2017 has allowed him to provide mentorship and career coaching, following the Co-Active coaching techniques and training mentors to impact and inspire others.