Actemium UK, a trading name of Cougar Automation Ltd., stands as one of the UK’s leading Control Systems Integrators. With over three decades of experience in delivering cutting-edge automation control solutions across various industries, including two decades of expertise in the aviation sector, we’re trusted by some of the biggest names in business. As part of the globally renowned VINCI Energies Group, we provide the robust business systems, accreditations, and financial stability our corporate clients rely on.

What sets us apart is our local approach—our dedicated project teams work closely together, fostering strong relationships with clients to deliver tailored solutions with a personal touch. Beyond Control System Integration, Actemium UK Business Units also specialize in electrical installations, fiber optic and network installations, and EV charging infrastructure, offering a full suite of services to meet your needs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to automated airport baggage handling, no one raises the bar higher than the BEUMER Group. That's because we bring a different proposition to the airport business: we combine the process insight of a system integrator with seamless project and supplier management skills. The result is a blend of industry-leading application know-how supported by the best hardware on the market - with world-class solutions delivered on time, every time.

BEUMER Group solutions integrate technology for security screening, storage, sortation and transportation of departure, transfer and arrival baggage. With over 1,500 installations worldwide, the company has the experience and expertise to approach every project according to specific requirements – from large, complex airports to smaller terminals looking for cost-effective solutions. BEUMER's baggage handling systems include check in (conventional and bag drop); high speed transportation and sortation systems; multipurpose storage; make up; automatic/semi-automatic loading and unloading; reclaim; and BHS management IT.

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.

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.

Emico is a multi-disciplined services engineering company that excels in complex and live operational environments.  We work across all sectors of Infrastructure - Rail, Aviation, Energy and Waste, Public Realm Power and Energy, and Civil related works.  Our business holds a niche ability to manufacturer containerised substations in joint venture operations with nominated partners both nationally and internationally.  Emico operates nationally and serves the needs of blue chip and government.

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

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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

With more than 100 years' experience in airport technologies, Honeywell is a trusted provider of intelligent airport solutions worldwide.  As a recognized leader, Honeywell creates a first-class experience for passengers by ensuring their safety, security, comfort and convenience throughout their journey; by providing innovative solutions specifically tailored for the effective management and operation of airports.  Our intelligent approach to airport integration focuses on the convergence of airside terminal-side and landside solutions - addressing the tough challenge around safety, security, efficiency and productivity.  That's why more than 500 airports trust Honeywell to take them to new heights

I-S-Solutions (UK) Ltd is a Project Management company with considerable experience in a broad range of sectors, mainly focusing on Aviation, Materials Handling and Facilities Management industries. Based in the UK, we are an independent company and frequently form part of international multi-disciplinary design teams and have particular strength within the procurement and installation of major Hold Baggage Screening and Baggage Handling Systems; we also offer Facilities Management and Aftersales Maintenance Services. We pride ourselves in offering a “one stop solution” to our clients needs; offering improved solutions to all engineering challenges.

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.

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For 30 years CEM Systems aviation specific access control solutions from Tyco, Johnson Controls have been successfully securing airports around the world; including 90% of UK airports such as London Heathrow and Gatwick and other major airport hubs from Hong Kong, Delhi, Dubai to Vancouver. The flexibility, scalability and high quality offered by CEM Systems AC2000 Airport system is a key factor in its suitability for the aviation environment.  Uniquely manufacturing both the access control security software and hardware, CEM can fully develop solutions to meet the unique requirements of airports. CEM’s innovative range of intelligent IP card readers and biometric solutions were also originally developed with airports in mind and assist ‘Beyond Security’ to help with other Airport operations such as advanced control of gate room management for passenger segregation and aiding passenger flow.  As such the CEM AC2000 Airport solution provides one of the most comprehensive, resilient and efficient airport security systems available today. 

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.