Up to 18 specialist consultancies have been selected to help deliver Gatwick Airport's £1.15 billion transformation programme.

The Airport has announced the award of two new Frameworks for construction activity at the airport in support of its five-year Capital Investment Programme; The Design and Engineering Services Framework and the Professional Services Resource Framework.

The Design and Engineering Framework has awarded preferred bidder status to 13 consultants as listed below:

• Low Complexity Architecture: Pascall + Watson, Atkins, 3DReid

• Low Complexity Structures & Civils: WSP, Jacobs, RPS, AMEY OW, Ramboll

• Low Complexity Engineering (M&E): WSP, Cundall, TSP, Hulley & Kirkwood


• Medium/High Complexity Design: WSP, RPS, Chapman Taylor/Arcadis, Arup, Jacobs.

The Professional Services Resource Framework has been awarded to seven organisations who will support Gatwick over the next four years with the supply of commercial and project management resource such as contract administrators, cost engineers, estimators, project managers, engineers, planners and risk managers. In addition, some may be called upon for principal design services, traffic consultancy, business planning and whole life costing:

• Arcadis

• Faithful + Gould

• Robinson Low Francis

• Doig and Smith

• Currie & Brown

• WSP UK

• AECOM.

Gatwick's Director of Construction, Raymond Melee, said: "It's an exciting time at Gatwick as we kick off our five-year Capital Investment Programme with £1.15 billion committed up to 2022 and £240 million planned for 2017/18 alone. 

"We are halfway through a £2.7 billion transformation programme as we plan for more growth and improved efficiency, while also maintaining our record levels of passenger satisfaction.

"I look forward to working with these specialists to boost our in-house teams as we move through the various stages of our projects."

(LM)