Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £40m contract to lead the construction of search and rescue bases for Bristow Helicopters.
New facilities will be built at commercial airports at Caernarfon, Humberside, Inverness, Manston, Newquay, Prestwick and St Athan. The new helicopter bases will be fitted with environmental technologies such as PV solar panels and rainwater harvesting systems.
Bristow managing director Mike Imlach, said: “Our experienced crews have fed into the design process and worked closely with the architects to ensure that the new bases are ideally suited to safe and efficient SAR operations.
“The identical interior layouts across the country will make it easy for our crew members to work from alternative bases should they need to. Each site will provide modern, high quality accommodation for the aircraft and crews while demonstrating how buildings like this can be made highly sustainable and environmentally friendly.”
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A computer generated image of the planned new bases
