Balfour Beatty to build new SAR bases
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £40m contract to lead the construction of search and rescue bases for Bristow Helicopters.
New facilities will be built at commercial airports at Caernarfon, Humberside, Inverness, Manston, Newquay, Prestwick and St Athan.
Buildings in Stornoway will be revamped.
Crews and helicopters to be based at Lee-on-Solent and Sumburgh will use existing facilities.
Bristow said Balfour Beatty, an infrastructure services company, would seek to use local firms to do the construction work.
Earlier this year, the Bristow Group won a 10-year contract from the Department for Transport to run the UK's helicopter search and rescue operations from 2015, taking over from the RAF and Royal Navy.
The new helicopter bases will be fitted with environmental technologies such as PV solar panels and rainwater harvesting systems.
BBC News