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DIO awards £20m contract for Typhoon infrastructure at RAF Lossiemouth

Maritime June 24, 2020

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has awarded a contract worth £20-million to Galliford Try for work which will house Number IX (Bomber) Squadron in facilities that are fit for purpose, enabling them to deliver in their role as a Typhoon Aggressor Squadron. Their re-role from Tornado to Typhoon, and move from RAF Marham ...

DIO completes essential improvements at RNAS Yeovilton

Land June 8, 2020

DPRTE 2020 Official Event Partner, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), has completed and handed over to the Royal Navy a project at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton. The project included work to improve essential access and egress to its sites from the public highway and provision of a new Fuel Bowser ...

Work starts on accommodation for Royal Marines in Lympstone

Homeland July 1, 2019

Work has begun on a new 181-bed accommodation block for new recruits to the Royal Marines in Lympstone. A new £10million construction project has begun at the site in Lympstone which will provide accommodation for Royal Marines as well as support facilities. The contract for construction was awarded to Galliford Try ...

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 ...