GLOUCESTERSHIRE AIRPORT Gloucestershire Airport lies at the heart of the Cotswolds directly between Cheltenham and Gloucester. Serving a catchment area of 1.5m people and 3500 businesses from the Midlands to north Bristol. It is one of the smartest General Aviation airports in the country. Commercially, the Airport caters for both business and leisure, with Scheduled Services to the Isle of Man, Belfast City and Jersey, provided by Citywing. The Airport is home to around 160 based aircraft, ranging MARK RYAN from single-seat, homebuilt ultralights to multimillion dollar, state-of-the MANAGING art Executive Jets. Over 85,000 flights are handled each year, making DIRECTOR Gloucestershire Airport one of the busiest in the UK. GLOUCESTERSHIRE Without maximising its runway lengths, Gloucestershire Airport would have been unable to AIRPORT cater for the larger, executive Jets that it needed to keep the business viable. The main runway “ BPE’s understanding of complex presented a number of operational challenges with houses and other buildings adjacent to both governance issues and their ability ends, along with a busy road. Furthermore, the Runway End Safety Area (“RESA”) could only be to react quickly and responsively extended by culverting a brook and diverting a public footpath. At the same time as the RESA when needed, ensured this highly works, Gloucester Airport wanted to install new runway lighting and an instrumental landing sensitive £4m project had a system, along with a new access road. successful outcome.” BPE’s Construction & Engineering team (comprising, amongst others, of two dual qualified chartered engineer/solicitors) quickly got to grips with feasibility reports previously carried out and started to consider how the sequencing of the various appointments and contracts should take place. This enabled the simultaneous appointment of Architect, CDM Co-ordinator and Project Manager which saved valuable time. Having first-hand knowledge and experience of project managing high value multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects helped enormously. Mark Ryan, MD of Gloucestershire Airport, had confidence that BPE could both act as an intelligent interface with the professional team and the contractors, at the same time as delivering on the legal aspects of the procurement stage. Helping Gloucestershire Airport’s Managing Director, Mark Ryan with his runway safety project was more than just another day at the office for Jon Close at Cheltenham based law firm, BPE. Jon is a partner at BPE and heads up the firm’s Construction & Engineering team and has a personal connection with the airport, so he was adamant that the issues facing the airport over the improvements to its runway would be resolved. To speak to Jon Close call 01242 248278 or email [email protected] MARK JON RYAN CLOSE GLOUCESTERSHIRE BPE AIRPORT.