New aircraft hangar underway at Farnborough

VolkerFitzpatrick has been contracted £34M to build a new maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) aircraft hangar at Farnborough Airport for Gulfstream Aerospace with completion scheduled for summer 2020.

Work began in May 2019 with the design-and-build project being the first of its kind to be commissioned in the UK by Gulfstream. The project will consist of a 220,060sq ft hanger that will house up to 16 Gulfstream private jets in addition to any maintenance facilities.

The project will also feature the construction of three floors of office space, customers experience areas, a café, specialist service areas, hangar doors, cranes, a deluge foam sprinkler system, and a new car park that will connect to the airport’s perimeter road.

Stuart Deverill, managing director of VolkerFitzpatrick’s Building division, stated: “We are delighted to have been awarded this exciting project to deliver Gulfstream’s first purpose-built MRO hangar facility in the UK. This is a fantastic opportunity and I look forward to our collaboration over the coming months.”

The bare structure of the hangar will be composed of a steel frame on top of concrete pad foundations, as well as 67m trusses over the hangar doors. The building’s envelope will consist of composite clad walls and a standing seam roof.

Furthermore, the project will include the demolition and reconstruction of an external apron which ties into a taxiway along with will require additions of associated lighting and service installation.

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