Construction

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.

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.