Willmott Dixon understands the critical importance of secure, state-of-the-art, future proofed and efficient facilities for the Ministry of Defence. We also know the very specific knowledge and experience required to deliver these highly specialised facilities.

Our previous and ongoing work with RMA Sandhurst, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, the RAF, Navy, Army as well as our position on a number of private contractors frameworks underlines our commitment to defence-related projects.

Likewise, our extended experience in secure police, fire and emergency service facilities as well as our numerous projects in the aerospace & bioscience sector provides a solid track-record for building secure and logistically efficient spaces within exacting conditions.

Defence experience

Our work across the defence sector equips us with important insight and expertise that we take forward into every new project. Our focus on internal learning and improvement ensures we bring our wide range of experience to new projects in a methodical way.

Secure infrastructure

Defence has its own sophisticated form of infrastructure, from military-grade site security to rapid site access facilities and easy control of the surrounding areas.

In addition to our defence work, we have in-depth experience delivering secure accommodation for 'blue light' customers, often requiring great security and appreciation of specific customer needs.

Nottinghamshire Police Custody Suite is one of the UK's foremost police detention centres

Secure facilities

Defence infrastructure requires high security to ensure protect assets, people, and accommodation. Our extensive work in the high security science sector, particularly biotech, provides important learning experience on best practices that we have taken forward to defence-related work.

The European bioinformatics institute, based Cambridge, is used for biotech research by over 85 companies internationally. The work done here is usually confidential in nature, so control of information and partitioning is key.

Climate-resilient estates

The MoD estate is continuously in need of retrofit or rebuild. Our extensive experience here gives us detailed know-how of upgrading property to meet the climate-related demand of the future. We provide a single point of contact within the business to continuously consult, improve and upgrade customer assets over the course of years.

Our aim is to reduce operating costs and create high quality property from for defence people to live and work in, with a particular focus on decarbonising assets.

Our Decarbonisation team is committed to continuously finding ways to lower costs and improve the day to day running of our customers assets on a long term, ongoing basis.