While the main purpose of Defence Infrastructure Organisation [DIO] worldwide is to provide a support mechanism for UK armed forces, they also recognise their responsibility to manage a large and diverse infrastructure estate to improve the living and working environments, wherever possible, for troops and support personnel.

This requires the team to be agile and responsive while following processes, protocols and being able to evidence all it’s work within an environment of high probity, open to public scrutiny.

Franklin + Andrews, along with our parent company Mott MacDonald, have been involved in many defence contracts globally, supporting airforce, army and navy, as well as for suppliers to the defence industry. Issues facing this sector often include SSSI’s, conservation of large tracts of land, remediation of contaminated land, resident consultation and occupier liaison as well as the construction of buildings such as new barracks and associated operational infrastructure.

The work supporting the DIO often involves challenging and exciting projects built using the latest technology and techniques in support of a vibrant, agile and busy customer.

An aspect of the work in defence that provides the team with intellectual challenge is being involved with the supplier engagement to progress and role out the UK governments initiative to achieve mature Sustainable Procurement across it’s supply chain.

This touches every part of the UK manufacturing arena and allows the team to witness what is going on in many advanced environments to reduce the impact of defence business on the environment and to invest in the knowledge of people working in the sector as well as contributing to the social agenda around and across communities touched by defence.

Benefits brought to schemes:

• Fast response to accommodate agile customer decision making
• Change control and cost outcome certainty with high probity
• Value for money evidence
• Carbon and cost based optioneering evidence
• Challenge free procurement
• Earned value management of spend
• Integrated design, documentation and cost management (BIM)
• Dispute resolution at lowest practical cost