Strategic Advice

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.

Costain is one of the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions companies.  Our purpose is to improve people's lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK's energy, water and transportation infrastructures.  We help to safeguard the security, increase the capacity, improve customer service and drive efficiency in our clients' infrastructure programme.  We deliver a range of services across the whole life-cycle of our clients' assets through front-end advisory, concept design, planning and legal approvals (such as DCO), detailed design, asset optimisation, technology integration and delivering complex projects.

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.

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.

Mott MacDonald is one of the world’s most experienced aviation consultancies, providing global expertise for over 40 years. With over 16,000 staff, we have principal offices in 50 countries and projects in 140. We have provided project finance, technical, business planning and transaction advice for >$75 billion of airport assets in over 100 countries. Our truly global project portfolio includes Heathrow, Gatwick, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Cyprus, Cairo, Cape Town, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Costa Rica, Columbia and Ecuador.

PriestmanGoode is a global design company that specialises in infrastructure, aviation, transport, hospitality and product design.  Our purpose lies in designing a better, more sustainable future.  People-centric to the core, we have been improving and transforming everyday experiences for millions of people around the world for over thirty years.  As a travel design specialists, we work with our client teams to create considered customer journeys across digital, physical products and services.  With departments for branding, strategy & CX, interior and product design, CMF and visualisation, we manage each project with a holistic, top-down approach, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget.

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.

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.

Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing around 60,000 people, with revenues of over $11 billion. We provide performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets including upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, chemicals, transport, power & process, clean energy, mining, nuclear and general industrial sectors. We strive to be the best technical services company to work with, work for and invest in.

For over 50 years we have served the needs of airports and aviation clients across the United Kingdom, the Americas and around the world by creatively addressing engineering and environmental challenges. We have the combination of knowledge, resources and skills to deliver cost-effective, efficient and environmentally sensitive solutions.

Wood’s professionals are experienced in resolving airport related issues including related to multidisciplinary planning; environmental services; masterplanning; engineering and design; and construction and construction management services.

We have supported public sector and private industry clients at major international gateways, domestic hubs, regional/municipal airports, and military aviation installations worldwide by providing services including:

Masterplanning

Airside and landside design and engineering services

Construction management and engineering

Contracts development and administration

Regulatory compliance and permitting

Environmental Impact Assessment

Air quality, noise and vibration studies

Archaeology and cultural heritage surveys

Architecture, structural, MEP and fire protection

Natural resource, noise and water quality assessments

Sustainability

Facility asset management

Fuel/de-icing facilities development

Geotechnical and seismic engineering

Materials testing and structural steel inspection

Pavement management and rehabilitation

Project and program management

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Stormwater management and pollution prevention

Key airports with whom we work regularly include: Heathrow, Bristol, Manston, Cambridge and Leeds Bradford in the UK; LAX, Dallas Fort Worth, JFK, Hartsfield Jackson, Chicago O’Hare in North America.  Globally we have worked significantly with airport clients in East Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.