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New building performance standards to save MOD up to 20%

Homeland April 9, 2018

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), which manages the defence estate, has published new building performance standards, which are expected to save the taxpayer between 15 and 20% on MOD construction programmes. Infrastructure is a vital defence capability delivering accommodation, training facilities and critical assets such as runways and workshops to enable our ...

CarillionAmey and DIO team up for housing project

Homeland March 16, 2018

CarillionAmey recently teamed up with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and Anglian Building Products to complete work on a housing project in Worthy Down. The project worth around £1.42 million was completed within 36 week and saw more than sixty homes on Blackwell Road have had External Wall Insulation (EWI) installed ...

Falkland Islands’ Mare Harbour jetty improvements complete

Maritime February 12, 2018

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed upgrade works on a state of the art jetty in the Falkland Islands. Geoff Robson, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Chief Operating Officer, officially opened the work upgrade in Mare Harbour, which will improve military capability in the Falkland Islands and improve life for personnel, ...

DIO launches commercial strategy for working with industry

Homeland January 11, 2018

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has launched its commercial strategy outlining its vision for future methods of working with suppliers in the soft and hard facilities management, construction and property advisory sectors. DIO, working on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, currently spends around £3 billion per year buying infrastructure services to ...