AECOM is a global provider of technical services to airport owners, investors, airlines and aviation clients, leading and supporting programs for airports of all sizes and forms.  With experience at over 150 major airports worldwide, we use our global network of expertise and local knowledge to deliver collaborative aviation solutions across projects and continents.  Our multi-disciplined, skilled professionals are able to support any project every step of the way, from finance and analysis to masterplanning, programme management, design and construction services.

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.

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. With 26,000 employees across the UK, US and Hong Kong, we're leading the transformation of our industry to meet the challenges of the future.

Trusted by our customers to deliver sustainable solutions and strengthen communities, we finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of the local communities.

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies.  Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth.  Since 1898, we've completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects in 160 countries on all seven continents.

Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership, and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity.  These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.

BPI started out as an electrical contracting company predominantly based at London City Airport, thereby gaining specialist experience within the aviation industry. The company has now evolved to become a multi-service ME&P contractor through natural growth & recruitment.

BPI have an in-house design capability and are able and have taken the Principle Contractor role on services critical/led projects.

The business is able to be dynamic and remain flexible and therefore is able to respond to the changing needs of its clients.

Health & Safety sits at the pinnacle of everything that we do followed extremely closely by our desire to provide our clients with a premier service every time. Our ethos is simple and built around looking to partner with all stakeholders involved on projects such that we determine and share common goals to ultimately meet our client’s expectations.

Collins Aerospace: Keeping passengers moving and operations flowing.

Collins Aerospace, a unit of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Created in 2018 by bringing together UTC Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins, Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

As a leading provider of self-service solutions, and with an enviable reputation as a master systems and communication network integrator, we understand how airports work. Airports, airlines and ground handlers around the globe rely on Collins Aerospace integrated airport solutions and our services are used by virtually all of the world’s carriers.

Airports and their passengers are constantly adapting and evolving to meet the needs of an industry where passenger traffic will grow on average more than 4 percent per year for decades to come. Collins Aerospace offers a wide range of services and solutions for modern airports and we continue to set the technical standards for the industry.

Combining our in-depth knowledge of airline IT systems and strong communications network expertise, Collins Aerospace creates integrated solutions for airports of all sizes and customers with a wide range of needs..

Self-Service Solutions

As a leading provider of self-service solutions focused on airport operational efficiency, optimized passenger facilitation and enhanced security, you can be assured of the highest level of innovation and integration from Collins Aerospace. From self-service bag drop to self-service kiosks we are innovators of seamless solutions that make the airport experience as efficient as possible.

Passenger Processing Solutions

Our passenger processing solutions make the most of IT resources and infrastructure to maximize your services. As passenger numbers grow and security requirements change frequently, airport operators are constantly working to keep lines shorter and passengers moving. With our passenger processing solutions, you can make the check-in processes faster for passengers and staff whilst attracting new airlines and routes through reduced service setup costs.

Airport Baggage Systems

Airport baggage systems can also make significant enhancements to passenger processing and must be seamless, efficient and cost-effective. Offsite, curbside, at the counter or the kiosk - it doesn't matter how you check-in, Collins Aerospace's baggage solutions lead the way. Baggage management, bag drop and baggage sorting solutions will help you reduce check-in delays and operational peaks, whilst maximizing revenue, resources and security.

Systems Integration

Our systems integration expertise means we offer robust, flexible and reliable architectures. By creating airport systems that share data and infrastructure, operations become more efficient and cost-effective. With unsurpassed industry experience, we reduce the complexities of airport integration to leverage existing investments with the best systems and technologies available and eliminate problems caused by disparate information sources.

Airport Operations Management

Gain greater control of your operations through data analysis and airport operations management. Optimizing airport operations and communications allows for greater profitability and ultimately, improves passenger processing. Enhanced airport business intelligence allows airlines and airports work to provide a seamless travel experience for the passenger, intertwining their operations to be optimally efficient, cost-effective, safe and customer-friendly.

Find out more at  www.rockwellcollins.com/airports

We are Fado. Repurposing, Refurbishment and Interiors Specialists whose work is driven by collaboration and creativity. As a partnership with Farrans Construction and Dowds Group, this provides us with the financial strength to tackle any project and confidence for our clients that we will deliver. 

We create innovative spaces across multiple sectors including the Aviation, Hospitality. Commercial, Healthcare and Education sectors.

We approach every project with enthusiasm and energy, knowing that the best ideas are still to come. With offices in London, Stansted, Warrington and Northern Ireland we support clients nationwide.

Farrans Construction is a UK Building & Civil Engineering company, with a long history of delivery projects within the aviation sector.

We have more than 650 people operating from offices in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds, with further site bases which connect our network.

Through intelligent, high-quality engineering and construction solutions, we solve complex problems for our clients.

Our team specialises in three core sectors: Aviation & Transport, Commercial & Industrial, Public Services.

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 & monitoring

•       Manchester 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

Kier’s purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK. We are a leading provider of infrastructure services, construction and property developments and committed to delivering for communities and leaving lasting legacies through our work.

At the core of our project delivery is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods, innovations and technology to ensure we offer the best value for our clients.

Kier launched sustainability framework, focused on two key components; environmental sustainability and social sustainability and this approach aims to safeguard three vital features; a resilient environment, a resilient community and a resilient balance sheet.

Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection and sustainable 'smart' solutions. Within the civil domain, Leonardo delivers integrated airport solutions - leveraging our capabilities in automation, IT services, security and safety - that incorporate systems for baggage handling, secure communication, security and air traffic management. Our lead in Air Traffic Management operations is built on a proven pedigree in air traffic control, weather systems, surveillance, and navigation aids which see our systems operational in over 150 countries.

We are Morgan Sindall, the construction, infrastructure and design division of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK and construction and regeneration group. Our company is organised through five businesses of Infrastructure, Tunnelling, Construction, Utility Services and Design. We deliver public and private sector projects of all sizes. Baker Hicks is a leading design consultancy practice specialising in the design of aviation facilities and infrastructure. With over 25 years of experience in delivering facilities for the aviation sector, we offer a comprehensive and flexible approach to working with our customers in helping them achieve and exceed their expectations. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves, by providing expertise across a broad range of market sectors. We also collaborate with our sister companies within Morgan Sindall Group to maximise our offering to customers. Airports are unique environments and require a special approach for engineering and construction activity. We have multi-disciplined capabilities, providing multi-disciplined aviation services including pavement and apron works, control tower and terminal construction, tunnelling, and installation of baggage handling facilities. Our aviation customers benefit from our experience as the only UK construction company to provide in-house capabilities across the entire range of airport services (airfield works, terminal construction and baggage handling system installation). This includes control tower and energy centre construction, terminal construction and modernisation, and apron, taxiway and runway works - we are one of the country’s leading airfield pavement contractors, having worked on runways and pavements at more than 20 major UK airports. Because we have built airport terminal buildings, check-in and baggage handling facilities as well as hangars, retail units and lounge areas, we have an in-depth understanding of the security implications of working airside. To assist our customers in meeting capital investment targets and regulatory deadlines, we work closely with airport stakeholders, employees and corporate bodies. This is coupled with a focus on maintaining ‘business as usual’ in live environments, and ensuring that passenger disruption is minimised. Customers also receive the benefit of our expertise in other sectors including rail, roads, bridges, energy, tunnelling and also defence, where we have completed hangar and airfield work.

Park Air Systems Limited is a wholly-owned business within the Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Business Sector. Park Air is the world's leading provider of VHF and UHF ground-to-air communication solutions, both for civil and defence applications. We are highly skilled in the design, development, manufacture, installation, integration and long-term support pf communication systems with over 50 years experience in ATC Systems. Dedicated research and design teams guarantee Park Air communication solutions are tailored to individual requirements ensuring flexible and dependable performance. An installed base of over 60,000 radios in over 180 countries gives Park Air a global presence and local expertise. 

Thales ATM, a world leader in Air Traffic Management, offers a comprehensive range of CNS/ATM (Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management) solutions from design and integration to installation and maintenance. Thales ATM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thales, a world leader in professional electronics for civil and military markets. With over 40 years' experience, operations in six countries and customers in over 170 countries, Thales ATM is fully dedicated to the civil aviation community. Thales ATM's portfolio of products and services embraces air traffic control centres and tower systems, surveillance and detection systems, navigational aids and communications systems.

TODD Architects is a client focused, people driven, multi award winning practice. Established in 1976, TODD’s have grown to be included within the Architect’s Journal’s list of top 100 UK practices, with studios in Belfast, London, Dublin, Manchester and associated studios in Edinburgh and Riyadh

In 2013 MAP Architects (McAlister Armstrong & Partners) joined TODD Architects Group as a sister company and in February 2016, fully merged with TODD Architects. MAP Architects were one of the UK’s leading aviation architects.

TODD's aviation team's experience covers over 30 airports throughout UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Aviation related projects include terminal design, refurbishment, re-configuration and extension of land-side infrastructure, air traffic and cargo facilities, hangars, master-planning of airport and its environs and feasibility studies.