This project was initiated from a requirement to replace the aircraft servicing electrical power sources in an aircraft maintenance hangar. The hangar handles all the short haul, planned and casualty maintenance for the british airways fleet. As you can imagine this is a very busy environment; therefore, it was paramount that the reduction of aircraft down time was kept to a minimum.

John Lennon Airport, Liverpool.  Do you then think of Easyjet and a rather tired fly-on-the wall documentary called Airport?  Well think again because this airport has just taken delivery of a rather special bespoke Electrical Package Substation combined with a 500 kVA generator.

Ask most generator Salesmen at AVK and they will tell you that providing bespoke generators should be the new ‘rock and roll’.

John Lennon Airport is a growing airport like so many others, but sometimes existing infrastructures can cause problems.  With this in mind the supply to the new Raytheon Radar Tower was not so straightforward.

It is not everyday that we in the UK see the development of a new airport, by which we mean Robin Hood International Airport in Doncaster.

The location for the new airport is situated on the old RAF Finningley airbase site and is just off the M18 near Doncaster in South Yorkshire.  It boasts the second largest runway after Heathrow.

The site has been developed by property developers Peel Holdings who have invested £26 million on providing a new terminal building together with a huge amount of infrastructure that is required by a modern airport.

AVK are currently in the process of supplying 160 generators for the UK motorway network and the National Traffic Control Centre. Based in the West Midlands, the purpose-built centre has been designed to collect, analyse and communicate motorway travel information.

The centre is already operational and delivering information to the media for onward broadcasting. It will be delivering its full traffic services to the public by the end of the year.