Morgan Sindall has secured contracts worth £10 million from Heathrow Airport Ltd and British Airways.

The company will be undertaking a contract with British Airways to modernise two aircraft hangars at the airport in preparation for the arrival of the new B787 dreamliner and B777-300ER aircraft. This will allow greater flexibility of working space during maintenance and repair work on the British Airways fleet.

Work will include the removal of 100 tonnes of steel, 95 per cent of which will be recycled, removal and provision of new nose docks and major refurbishment of existing tail docks. Also the construction of a nose-pod extension to the hangar to accommodate large aircraft, and various associated building services works.


In addition, Morgan Sindall will be replacing seven air bridges at the airport in partnership with German company Thyssen Krupp for Heathrow Airport Ltd. The original air bridges are around 25 years old. Each air bridge takes four weeks to install and they are being manufactured by Thyssen Krupp in Spain, then shipped over for installation at Heathrow Airport.

The air bridges provide a means for passengers to embark and disembark the aircraft to the main passenger terminal. At approximately 30 meters in length, the telescopic air bridges extend, retract, elevate and descend to reach the doors of a large number of aircraft.

(CD/GK)