Strategic Advice

Airbiz specialise in international aviation consultancy.  Our clients include airport owners, operators, investors, airlines, government agencies and other aviation stakeholders.  The Airbiz team consists of airport and terminal planners, business analysts, aviation marketing specialists, project facilitators, simulation experts and creative strategists.

Team members are renowned for their lateral thinking resulting in innovative and cost effective outcomes.  The Airbiz team has accumulated over 30 years' experience in the aviation industry and has successfully completed over 2000 projects in 50 countries, on five continents.

Airbiz is an active contributor and World Business Partner of Airports Council International (ACI).  Airbiz is recognised globally as a specialist aviation industry advisor that delivers tailored solutions for aviation clients.

Ajar Technology specializes in audio-visual and security systems in the UK and EMEA for medium-sized to enterprise-sized businesses and it has been active in the aviation sector since 2007.

In our role as an independent partner, we leverage existing vendor relationships and research the market and identify appropriate technologies on behalf of our clients. Our recommendations are made to achieve Value for money and meet the functional needs of our clients.

Our solution subject matter expertise includes many systems used for airport operations such as – CCTV, Access control, Biometrics, cloud systems, security analytics, Airport control rooms, Advertising solutions, people management, people movement data gathering, vehicle flow management, audio announcements and data centre technology.

Alan Stratford and Associates (ASA) was established in 1968 and provides specialist services in air transport consultancy.    More than 200 airport and 50 airline studies have been carried out in the UK, Europe, Africa, SE Asia and Australasia.  Services provided include air traffic forecasting, airport master planning, airport privatisation studies, airport investment appraisal, airport and airline sales / due diligence and airline business plans.

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.

Arup is a global firm of over 14,000 planners, designers, engineers and business consultants, operating from 88 offices in 33 countries. We have over 50 years’ experience in the aviation sector, gained through assignments at more than 100 airports worldwide. Significant recent commissions have included London airports, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Dublin, Istanbul, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Mexico City, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Perth, Melbourne and Auckland. In all of our work we focus on helping our clients solve today’s complex issues while planning for the future. We seek creative operational and planning solutions that address the complex relationships between aircraft, passengers, baggage, ground transportation and cargo. We help optimise the capacity and value of existing assets, while assisting with the complex decisions of when and how to take the jump to redevelopment. The circular economy, sustainability, resilience and climate change are dominate factors in our solutions based engineering schemes within the airport environment and equally figure heavily in the surface access transport and cities based agendas. Our aviation team provides a leading edge, comprehensive range of planning, design leadership, program management, operations, project leadership and business consultancy services, including: Airport masterplanning services relating to airport wide (airside and landside) and terminal area planning, service level definition, definition/analysis of processes for passenger flow, ground support equipment, terminal logistics and simulation modelling. Recent projects include Copenhagen, Krakow, Queenstown, Auckland, Mexico City and Istanbul airport masterplanning. Facilities engineering and program management relating to new build and redevelopment works with airfield and terminal design projects such as Heathrow, New York, Dublin, Hong Kong, Perth. Specialist award winning airport systems advisory services (baggage systems, security, fire, lighting, cargo, information/digital systems, visualisation, auralisation and simulation tools etc ) including development of user requirements, operational processes and service levels and associated engineering / procurement management / commissioning, with recent projects at Manchester, Heathrow, Dubai and Hong Kong airports. Operations consultancy, such as operational readiness planning and program management including development of plan of operations, scheduling and management of resourcing, training and trials, management of stakeholder relations, and organisational transformation. Recent projects include Operational Readiness at Heathrow T2, Mumbai, New York and Perth. Corporate finance services associated with business plan development, technical due diligence on sale / acquisition and public-private partnerships such as Kansai and Itami privatisation vendor due diligence advisor. Our team employs a highly analytical approach to problem definition and solution development, based on an in-depth understanding of airport and airline operations and an appreciation of airports as commercial businesses and public assets. We deliver pragmatic solutions, directed to achieving projects that are fundable, buildable and minimise impact on operations.

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. Working through trusted long-term partnerships we help our clients create world class airports, making air travel safer, easier and faster. We work on developments of all scales – from general aviation terminals to infrastructure at the largest global hubs.

With a commitment to technical innovation and service excellence, we engage with our clients to introduce them to new ways of thinking and new ideas within a new digital culture.

Azinq is an IT services and consulting company specialising in, Software Development, IT Consultancy, System Integration and Support Services for airports. 

The team combines a unique blend of technical and airport business expertise with deep knowledge and experience, from working within Airport IT for many years. They are specialists in enabling efficient connectivity across an airport campus using modern integration technologies to enable digital innovation.

Azinq is trusted by major airport authorities which includes Manchester Airport Group, Oman Airports, London Luton Airport, AGS Airports and Isavia.

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive. We shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s transportation, energy, water, defence and nuclear markets. 

We are organised around our customers, anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of  consulting, digital and construction experts, we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient, and practical solutions.

 We help to safeguard security, increase capacity, improve customer service and drive efficiency in our customers' infrastructure programmes.  We deliver a range of services across the whole project lifecycle, including strategic advice and feasibility studies, concept design, planning and legal approvals (such as DCO), detailed design, asset optimisation, technology integration and the construction of complex major projects.

Cundall is an international multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy operating in over 10 countries across the globe. With a full range of engineering services including strategic sustainability advice, critical systems, acoustics, IT and AV, security and, health and wellbeing. We devise the best possible solutions for our clients projects. We are currently working on creating new designs at a variety of airports in UK, Australia and in the Middle East.

Damarel is a specialist software house, at the forefront of developing mission critical systems for airport operations. The sole focus is automating passenger and ground handling processes, using IT to deliver outstanding business results. Damarel makes companies such as ground handlers, airports and airlines more efficient and profitable with industry leading applications. The company has 25 years’ experience, understands the pressures facing businesses in this sector and delivers cost effective solutions that work.

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.

Airport Technologies

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’s Aviation Experience

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

Frazer-Nash Consultancy has many years of experience supporting leading aviation organisations who have benefitted from our asset management, analysis, assurance and simulation expertise to improve the performance, safety and reliability of their systems and infrastructure.  We combine an innovative, pragmatic approach to problem solving with advanced analytical engineering assessment techniques.

Our extensive portfolio of services includes: Safety engineering; Strategic Asset Management; Reliability/Availability engineering; Maintenance planning and optimisation; Whole Life Costing; Design and analysis of Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Control and Information systems; Baggage system simulation; Fire and blast modelling; Data analytics and Digital Twin development; Software development, Cyber Security; Project Management.

GHD is a leading technical, advisory and engineering consultancy operating in the global markets of transportation, environment, water, energy, property and buildings.  Our Aviation Service Line employs over 100 dedicated professionals with global expertise covering airside and landside infrastructure across concept, design, construction and operations. 

In the UK, we are actively involved in aviation projects at a number of airports supporting the delivery of our clients' capital and maintenance infrastructure programmes. We are interested in engaging with potential partners and suppliers to build collaborative teams in line with our client service led culture.

Grimshaw is an international architecture firm that specialises in transport projects of national importance. Grimshaw is highly regarded in this particular sector for providing design leadership to projects that have strict cost, programme and highly aspirational outcomes at their core. Our portfolio of completed work includes projects in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, North America and Mexico. The practice specialises in helping aviation clients de carbonise their estates through efficient master planning and building designs which benefit from extensive experience in long-span structures and efficient form-finding parametrics. These skills support Grimshaw's on-going research and development thesis, including low-cost carrier terminal buildings. Grimshaw have committed to net zero carbon designs by 2025.

Sustainability Capabilities 

Grimshaw are fully committed to helping our clients deliver sustainable aviation infrastructure. We pride ourselves in creating master planning, infrastructure and building designs that push the boundaries in social and environmental regenerative design. We are committed to delivering only net zero carbon designs by 2025 and our highly skilled architects bring a people-centric approach to their focus on the key issues in aviation today.

Idom UK is a multi-disciplined consultancy with a proven track record of providing high quality, practical and pragmatic advice and designs to a wide range of clients across many sectors.  We are wholly owned by the IDOM Group, an employee-owned firm based in Bilbao, Spain. We have strong expertise and specialisms in different sectors including building, manufacturing, aviation, railway, and urban transport systems, providing services of aeronautical engineering, civil and structural engineering, architectural, MEP services, ground contamination, and health and safety. We are currently advising and designing airport infrastructure around the world, mainly in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East, working on projects that involve: Masterplanning; Runway design and/or rehabilitation; Airfield signage re-designation; Environmental and sustainability improvements to existing infrastructure; New terminal buildings/ modification of existing buildings; and design of landside infrastructure.

INNOVATION                                                   EXCELLENCE                                        COMMITMENT

Formed in 1982, JSA developed into a specialist Agricultural and Landscape maintenance Company providing specialist works including:

- Airfield Landscape Maintenance to CAP 772

- Airfield High Blast Reinstatement Solutions to CAP 168/772 using Flex-Terra

-Landscape Maintenance

-Supply of Overaasen snow clearance equipment as UK agents

-Conservation, Ecology and Biodiversity

-Arboricultural works and woodland Management

- Fine Turf Management

-Agricultural Operations

Although the Company has expanded since the early days, the goal has not changed – that goal being: Innovation, professionalism and safety