SUSTAINABILITY

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RAF Lossiemouth Sqn II(AC) HQ
Typhoon Project Delivery Team had
the task to design, contract, construct
and deliver headquarters for a new
Typhoon Squadron and in addition
adapt and refurbish its cold war aircraft
support facilities. All of which needed
to be delivered sustainably to tight
costs and time constraints on a
complex site at pace.
The delivery team challenged the
Assessment Study solution and despite
initial resistance, put forward their own
solution that they believed could be
delivered faster, cheaper and more
sustainably and which would produce
a much higher quality outcome for
the customer.
The new headquarters building
provides ‘state of the art’ secure facilities
required to plan and brief complex
flying sorties. It also accommodates the
Squadron’s engineering and logistics
facilities, the Survival Equipment
Section which maintains all of the high
tech equipment worn by Typhoon
Typhoon interceptor outside its new ‘state of the art’ squadron headquarters at RAF Lossiemouth © Crown
pilots during flight, executive and
administrative offices and classroom.
By working closely with Sqn II(AC) they
refurbished nine Hardened Aircraft
Shelters and the ‘Feeder’ industrial
kitchen and canteen seven months
early to assist the squadron in
preparation to ‘stand up’. The main
squadron headquarters was also
delivered a month early with a
saving on the Tender Target Price in
excess of £1m.
By ‘stepping back’ to look at essentially
what they were being asked to do, the
final outcome was a very low energy,
robust, future proofed, climate resilient,
customer focused building.
See article on page 28
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AWE Aldermaston has played a
central role in defence of the UK for
more than 65 years, providing the
UK’s nuclear warheads, including
those for Trident, the current UK
Continuous At Sea Deterrent.
Their capital project teams have
embraced sustainable construction
as being core to their way of
working. In today’s climate it has
been vital for them to promote
sustainability as a means to find
innovative and cost-effective
measures as part of their mandate to
deliver enhanced value to the nation.
In the waste arena, this has seen the
target for diversion of construction
and demolition waste from landfill
raised to 90%, in line with its
Re-use of waste concrete and subsoil has achieved significant savings © AWE
corporate sustainability plan. In fact, in
recent years, AWE has exceeded this
target, achieving a 99% landfill
diversion rate. The company has found
that sustainable construction adds
value in environmental, social and
economic terms and these lessons
have regularly been taken on to
other projects outside AWE.
See article on page 70
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