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RAF Lakenheath to renovate USVF security forces facilities

Homeland August 13, 2019

Work is about to begin at RAF Lakenheath to renovate the United States Visiting Forces (USVF) security forces facilities as part of an ongoing programme of improvements to the base. This project is the first of a wider programme to upgrade various support facilities on the base in order to accommodate ...

Up to the Challenge: DIO invests in new urban tactics facility

Land July 3, 2019

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) plays a vital role in supporting the UK’s Armed Forces by building, maintaining and servicing what the men and women who serve our country need to live, work, train and deploy on operations.  One of DIO’s recent projects has seen the organisation invest more than £1.2 million in a new urban tactics facility at ...

Galliford Try secures RAF construction contract

Air June 4, 2019

Galliford Try has been awarded a construction contract by BAE Systems to build facilities for a Typhoon squadron at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. The £23million construction contract will create new facilities for 12 squadron, a joint RAF/Qatar Emir Air force unit. The building will use both traditional construction techniques and modular ...

Construction begins on BRNC’S new gym facilities

Homeland April 18, 2019

Work on a new state-of-the-art Physical Training centre and gymnasium for Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) has formally start with a turf cutting ceremony. Captain Jol Woodard, the Commanding Officer of BRNC, was invited to cut the first patch of soil alongside guests from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), who are ...