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		<title>Army Basing Programme (ABP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<p><span class="intro">This £1.1bn scheme saw the British Army’s living and working infrastructure reconfigured, helping accommodate units returning from Germany, whilst also rebasing units within the UK.</span></p>
<p>ABP included further upgrades to infrastructure and assets at garrisons across Salisbury Plain Training Area and Aldershot, spanning everything from stores and Dutch barns to battalion headquarters and state-of-the-art simulator training facilities.</p>
<p>Our experts provided building services engineering and environmental services on this programme.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<p><span class="intro">This scheme aimed to modernise the British Army’s existing estate and provide fit-for-purpose accommodation, ultimately ensuring soldiers live and work within a best-in-class environment. </span></p>
<p>The scale and scope evolved over time, with PAC going on to deliver a transformative £1.6bn defence infrastructure overhaul during its initial phase, impacting the garrisons of TidNBul (Tidworth, Bulford, Perham Down), Larkhill, Aldershot and Warminster by the time it completed in 2014.</p>
<p>Our team delivered building services engineering and environmental services on this project.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<p><span class="intro">Measuring 170m long and 80m wide, BAE’s vast new Glasgow Wet Dock Hall facility on the banks of the River Clyde will be large enough for two Type 26 frigates to be constructed simultaneously, with extensive provision of both gantry cranes and runway cranes.</span></p>
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			<p>• Over 400 new and refurbished built assets<br />
• Over 15 years continued delivery of technical assets<br />
• £2.7bn defence contract &#8211; Project Allenby &amp; Connaught (PAC) and Army Basing Programme (ABP)<br />
• Clear understanding of DIO design stage processes<br />
• Experience in numerous technical building assets<br />
• Experience in delivering DREAM ‘Excellent’<br />
• Experience working alongside a project deliverable team<br />
• Understanding how improved facilities benefit personnel wellbeing and efficiency</p>
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					<p><span class="text--16">We take a holistic approach to designing sustainable, low-carbon solutions, considering the project’s whole-life carbon cycle, circular economy, climate resilience and operational carbon emissions. Maintaining and improving biodiversity also feature as an important component to scheme design.</span></p>
<p><span class="text--16">Waterman’s sustainability team works alongside our engineers to guide the design process and set the roadmap for achieving project sustainability goals, certifications and targets to meet the DREAM requirements and JSP 850. Our ever-growing defence sector experience also includes involvement on the Future Soldier projects at Aldershot, Warminster and Tidworth.</span></p>
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