Bristow Helicopters has won a £1.6bn 10-year contract to take over the UK’s helicopter search and rescue operations on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Under the new contract, 22 helicopters will operate from 10 locations around the UK. Seven of these locations require new Search and Rescue (SAR) bases to be constructed on existing airport/airbase sites.
Waterman has provided a range of environmental and engineering consultancy advice, initially supporting Bristow when they were tendering for the new UK SAR contract by undertaking an initial appraisal of ground contamination risk at the sites of the proposed new facilities.
Following their successful tender we have been providing a range of pre-planning assessments to support their various planning applications, together with site investigations to inform the building design. Our services on this project have included:
We have recently been asked to provide BREEAM pre-assessments to help ensure that the required planning and corporate targets can be achieved within budget.
We are now working for Bristow’s D&B Contractor – Balfour Beatty as well. We are acting as their BREEAM assessors undertaking full design, construction and post construction BREEAM duties.
We are also undertaking ecology and heritage assessments to discharge various planning conditions.
Bristow’s SAR operations will be rolled out in a phased manner from 2015 and will be fully operational by summer 2017.
Our team was appointed to provide full planning, design, health and safety and project management services in connection with a two storey extension to the existing main airside emergency response centre at Dublin Airport.
Our team were appointed on planning, design and construction monitoring for the €2.5m 6,100 space at-grade long term carpark for Quik-Park.
We provided multi-disciplinary design team services and health and safety consultancy (PSDS) services in relation to new central immigration facilities on the ground floor of the Pier A link building at Dublin Airport.
Waterman has provided engineering consultancy services on a number of significant projects at Dublin Airport.
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) announced at the Conservative party conference will be headed by Labour peer Lord Adonis and has its work cut out.
