DIO delivers first stages of maintenance facility for new RAF transport aircraft

Work has started on the steelwork stage of a new aircraft hangar at RAF Brize Norton, after the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) worked with a range of partners to develop the site. The hangar, which will be used to maintain Airbus A400 Atlas four-engine military transport aircraft, is the first construction contract DIO awarded under its Next Generation Estates Contracts (NGEC) national framework, which procures building and civil engineering projects valued at up to £50 million. DIO’s contractor Balfour Beatty, working with Barnsley-based Billingtons Steel, has now lifted