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Accelerate your Aviation Projects with our Utilities Consultancy framework

SCAPE's Utilities Consultancy framework will accelerate your aviation and air cargo projects, supporting you throughout the aviation lifecycle with global expertise via the best-in-class delivery partners.

Whether it's project management and cost consultancy to engineering, architectural design, and risk management, our framework empowers you to deliver infrastructure and operational outcomes that deliver your organisation's objectives and benefit the community it serves.

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Benefits of using the SCAPE Utilities Consultancy framework

The SCAPE Utilities Consultancy framework is designed to empower utility sector organisations to shape their projects and programmes through an accelerated delivery, competitively tendered model.

This framework supports the delivery of low carbon aviation infrastructure that aligns with your sustainability goals and meets the evolving needs of your customers, operators, and local communities.

Our Utilities Consultancy framework is Gold Standard Accredited and gives you access to expert services and innovative solutions. We work collaboratively with you to enhance airport projects and enable aviation stakeholders to accelerate decarbonisation, enhance operational resilience, and future-proof assets for long-term success.

Our framework gives you access to expert consultants and contractors who will bring your vision to life; supporting you from the pre-engagement meetings and service requests through to draft proposals, commission and delivery.

Our consultancy partners are ready to bring their global expertise and extensive supply chains to support support your aviation and air cargo project. Read below to discover more.

How SCAPE accelerates your aviation and air cargo projects

  • Instant access to expertise, quality and value

  • Active management and dedicated support

  • Global expertise supported by extensive local supply chains

  • Integrated social value and sustainability measures

  • Fully compliant with the UK and Scotland’s Utilities Contracts Regulations

Arcadis

Arcadis will collaborate with you to develop tailored mobility solutions that align with your aviation and air cargo goals. Whether this involves optimising urban transport, electrifying fleet, or designing next-generation mobility hubs, its expertise ensures sustainable, efficient and future-ready outcomes.

Working with Arcadis gives you access to a range of services that optimise your airport project approach, including: design and engineering, cost and commercial management, program and project management, technical and mobility advisory and asset management and operations.

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AtkinsRéalis

AtkinsRéalis understands that aviation projects need to decarbonise and provide fast and efficient travel. Its team improve resilience, enhance customer focus and strengthen connection to wider transport with sustainable outcomes in mind.

Working with AtkinsRéalis means you unlock technological engineering, regulatory proficiency, commercial and operational insights to shape your project delivery.

They have end-to-end aviation capabilities with leading experts who can advise on critical aviation skills, including: communication, mechanical systems, cybersecurity, automation, decarbonising operations and assets, and construction.

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Perfect Circle

Perfect Circle is a joint venture formed in 2016 by Pick Everard, Gleeds, and AECOM, offering innovative, technically expert services to support aviation and air cargo projects. Their multidisciplinary teams—including researchers, scientists, engineers, and designers—help shape greener, safer, and more efficient airport environments.

The aviation team provides architecture, design, programme management, technical infrastructure, and ESG advisory services. They’ve supported major international airports and logistics operators with strategic planning, site development, infrastructure design, and project delivery.

With over 35,000 professionals and a network of Preferred Partners, Perfect Circle delivers broad public sector solutions through a framework built on innovation, governance, and collaboration.

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"These frameworks will help clients accelerate the works and services needed to support a low-carbon economy in the years to come. As with all our frameworks, enhanced social value will underpin every project, ensuring we leave a positive, sustainable legacy within each community."

Mark Robinson

Group Chief Executive | SCAPE Group

Aviation services our partners can support you with

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Arcadis

Arcadis offers services that enable clients to maximise operational value from new technologies through data-driven insights, advanced modelling, and sustainable design.

Their team of advisors are global leaders across sustainable and active mobility, mobility-on-demand, e-mobility and airport hubs, always ahead of what’s next in transportation.

From strategy to implementation, Arcadis can help you develop resilient, future-ready mobility ecosystems that improve connectivity, efficiency and quality of life.

Services include

  • Design and engineering

  • Cost and commercial management

  • Program and project management

  • Technical and mobility advisory

  • Asset management and operations

AtkinsRéalis

AtkinsRéalis offer technological, engineering, and regulatory proficiency, as well as enhancing your commercial and operational insights. Collaboratively, the team work on projects to make airports more efficient, develop alternative fuels, advanced aircraft materials, and future-ready infrastructure.

With deep subject-matter expertise in critical aviation skills and vast worldwide experience, it delivers global expertise with local knowledge. This is how the team can help you contribute to an efficient and resilient aviation future with connectivity for all.

Services include

  • Airport engineering

  • Airport facilities

  • Airport technologies

  • Airport master planning

  • Airside infrastructure

  • Aviation safety assessments

  • Commercial and strategic consulting

  • Fuel storage and distribution

  • Passenger management and security systems

  • Program and project management

  • Traffic management and operational assessment

Perfect Circle

Perfect Circle offers you expertise across a range of consultants and contractors who can support you with project management and contract administration.

Using Perfect Circle means you gain access to an industry-leading cost and commercial management team who deliver a range of core and specialist services at multiple stages of your aviation and air cargo project which include, benchmarking, cost verification auditing, cost management, quantity surveying, procurement advice and estimating. Its team understand the needs and requirements across the aviation and air cargo lifecycle and help you unlock success delivering best practice for your organisation.

Through its strategic partnerships with global and national businesses and 500+ local suppliers including 220 SMEs, Perfect Circle can help by advising and acting on the complexities of planning and managing real estate, or by designing sustainable solutions for vital infrastructure, energy and environment preservation, public service delivery and investment assets within the aviation sector.

Services include

  • Airport master development plans

  • Passenger terminal planning and design

  • Hanger design

  • Air traffic control tower design

  • Air cargo

  • Pavement evaluation, rehabilitation and management

  • ESG advisory

  • Decarbonisation and energy advisory

  • Environmental impact assessment and mitigation design

  • Systems deign for fuelling

  • Alternate delivery

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Our team of experts are ready to accelerate your aviation and air cargo projects. Fill out the form to let us know how we can help you.

SCAPE Utilities Consultancy framework FAQs

How will this framework improve project delivery in the aviation sector?

Our framework accelerates project delivery by proactively addressing supply chain challenges faced by the aviation sector. We offer extensive local supply chains and instant access to industry-leading utility partners.

Our early contractor involvement improves buildability, mitigates risk and drives greater certainty of outcome across time, quality and value. Through our SCAPE Utilities Consultancy framework, we empower utility sector organisations to shape their projects and programmes through an accelerated delivery, competitively tendered model.

The frameworks provide clients with access to specialist consultants capable of helping them to deliver the low carbon energy, transport and water infrastructure needed to meet sustainability targets and serve community needs in the years ahead.

What types of consultancy services are available through SCAPE frameworks?

We offer a range of services so you can get support with everything you face in the aviation sector, including:

  • Project management
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Tunnel Engineering
  • Signal Engineering
  • Project Planning
  • Architectural Design
  • Principal Designer (CDM)
  • Building Surveying
  • Information Management
  • Cost and Commercial Management
  • Risk Management
  • Health and Safety Management

Plus, a wide range of additional services needed to enable a more effective implementation of the commission.

How do I access the framework?

To use any of our frameworks, a simple form called an Access Agreement needs to be signed.

The Access Agreement allows you to use any of our current or future frameworks, it only needs to be signed once and it carries no cost. The Access Agreement is the only contract in place between your organisation and SCAPE.

Once signed, there is no commitment or obligation to use our frameworks and signing an Access Agreement does not prohibit you from using any other procurement route.

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