Sheffield-based architects’ practice HLM has been appointed to design a new £160m RAF facility in Suffolk.The project team for the £160m MoD project to build an F-35 flight simulator, maintenance unit, new hangars and storage facilities at RAF Lakenheath has been awarded by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to engineering and construction company Kier VolkerFitzpatrick.The company will work alongside HLM, based in Sheffield’s Tudor Square, to design and develop the new facilities.The new flight simulator will have the capacity to link to other simulators used by pilots across the UK and beyond, allowing expertise to be shared and pilots from the UK and US to train together on a regular basis.