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Winners of Sanctuary Awards 2020 Announced

Richard Brooks, 17 March 2021 - Accommodation, Armed Forces, Belize, British Army, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Environment and Ecology, Portsmouth, RAF Brize Norton, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Salisbury Plain Training Area, Sanctuary Awards, Wildlife

This week we hosted the first ever virtual Sanctuary Awards ceremony! The Sanctuary Awards have been showcasing outstanding sustainability and conservation efforts across the Ministry of Defence (MOD) estate since 1991, celebrating the achievements of teams and individuals in the …

Year in review: reflecting on the challenges and successes of 2020

DIO communications team, 21 December 2020 - Accommodation, Coronavirus, Facilities Management, Glen Mallan jetty, Northern Ammunition Jetty, Operation Nightingale, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Lossiemouth

It has been a busy and challenging year for DIO. In addition to supporting the government’s wider COVID-19 relief efforts, we continued to deliver on a range of key projects and programmes for our customers and staff throughout the UK and abroad. Let’s look back at some of the year’s main achievements.

Reducing waste across the Defence estate

Major General Bobby Walton-Knight, 25 September 2020 - Glen Mallan jetty, Land Management, Landmarc, RAF Marham, Skanska, Worthy Down

Its Recycle Week and I’d like to highlight some of the excellent work that has happened to support recycling across the UK Defence estate.

Last chance to nominate for the Sanctuary Awards!

Iain Perkins, 20 July 2020 - Accommodation, Army Basing Programme, Conservation, Energy, F-35B Lightning II, Landmarc, RAF Marham, Sanctuary Awards

Nominations for the MOD Sanctuary Awards close on 31 July and we’re still looking for entries for some of our new award categories.

New range lookout huts flown in by RAF and the Royal Navy on Dartmoor Training Area

Steffan Jones, 6 July 2020 - Landmarc, RAF, Royal Navy

Partnership shone through when a project to replace two lookout huts on Dartmoor Training Area in Devon was faced with the challenge of physically transporting the huts to their final destination at the top of two granite tors.

Powering up: how we support the radar at RAF Fylingdales

Neil Hatfield, 17 February 2020 - Engineering, Facilities Management, RAF

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that DIO has a pretty varied range of responsibilities. Even many DIO staff don’t realise, though, that we run a power station. It’s at RAF Fylingdales in the North …

How DIO supports our Armed Forces customers

DIO communications team, 10 October 2019 - Accommodation, British Army, RAF, Royal Navy

This week is National Customer Service Week and to celebrate we’d like to reflect on the vital work that DIO do to provide our customers with the services they need to live, work, train and deploy all over the world.

Combining Curlew Conservation and Flight Safety on RAF Airfields

Dr Stuart Otway and Neil Durrance, 24 June 2019 - Environment and Ecology, Health and safety, RAF

DIO has worked together with the RAF, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) and Natural England on a pilot project to rescue 60 curlew eggs from RAF airfields in East Anglia.

DIO starts work on Northolt runway resurfacing

Clement Adekoyejo, 15 April 2019 - Project Management, RAF, RAF Northolt, Runways

Last October, we awarded a £23 million contract to Lagan Aviation and Infrastructure to resurface the runway at RAF Northolt. We’ve now closed the runway for six months to allow the work to take place.

The power of green energy: enough electricity to run RAF Marham

Steve Perry, 18 February 2019 - Energy, Environment and Ecology, RAF Marham

DIO worked with partners including Crown Commercial Service and Future Biogas to establish a renewable energy source to power RAF Marham. Read on to find out how it all works.

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