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.

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.

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

Working on over 46 major global airport projects ICAD has become the technology provider of choice. Receiving awards for every airport project our team is the go to company for strategic advice, design, build, operation and sustainable development.

We have offices and facilities in London, West Midlands, Bedford and Leeds. Each filled with people from Airport, Airline, Supplier and OEM backgrounds.

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

Logika Consultants helps aviation clients navigate often-complex legislation, policy and regulation required to gain consent for development, providing environmental advice and strategy.  Furthermore, Logika works with airport architects and engineers, to support the development of proposals to ensure that they have environmental design measures fully embedded within them.  These measures cover all environmental and sustainability issues at airports including (with our sister organisations Air Quality Consultants and Noise Consultants) carbon, climate change, air quality, noise, biodiversity, flood etc.  We are able to advise on expansion, plans, airspace design and all other matters where airport operations could affect the environment.

RPS has over 40 years experience in the Aviation sector enabling our team to develop an in-depth understanding of the airside environment, the commercial drivers and the contractor constraints that our clients have to consider with each development. We offer tailored solutions across the globe, helping them to balance their commercial goals with their responsibilities to the environment and local communities. Our approach combines environmental and planning factors with a focus on maximising related revenues and design teams of Architects and Engineers with specialised knowledge of aviation related development. Our sector coverage encompasses: - Terminal Buildings - Hangars - Fixed Base Operations - Air Cargo facilities - Aprons & Runways - Civil and military Our services include: - AGL & Lighting Assessment - Air Quality & Carbon Assessments - Airfield Infrastructure Design - Airport Masterplanning - Airports Utilities Studies - Architecture - Civil & Structural Engineering - Community Impact Studies - Environmental Impact Assessments - Expert Witness - Health Impact Assessments - Landscape & Visual Impact Assessments - Noise & Vibration Studies - Planning Consultancy - Stakeholder Engagement - Surface Access Strategic Planning & Design - Surface Water & Pollution Control - Building Service Engineering. We are accredited to ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007 and have gained Investors in People Gold status.