Managing wildfires and much more on the Defence Training Estate
![Firefighters from Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service monitoring the fire on Salisbury Plain Training Area. [Photograph courtesy of Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/08/20180706_210200-1024x768.jpg)
...around the world, to enable our Armed Forces to be ready for operations and deployments. We manage around two thirds of the 223,800 hectares that the MOD owns, and a...
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Root and Branch: Managing the MOD's woodlands
![A Gurkha trainee, wearing full uniform including helmet and body armour, and carrying his weapon and a bergen, kneels in an area of young, growing trees. A mature wood is in the background. [Crown Copyright/MOD2018]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/IMG_1599cropped-copy-e1544028628324-1024x681.jpg)
...spent a few years in Scotland and elsewhere working as a forestry contractor, before heading to forestry college. I was lucky enough to get a placement working in MOD forestry...
DIO and Landmarc: working together for success
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Landmarc, Strategic Business Partner
...manage military training facilities across the MOD’s 190,000 hectares of UK training estate? Working together for 15 years DIO has worked in partnership with Landmarc Support Services for over 15...
DIO Brunei supports the next generation of engineers
...the engineering industry which led to suggestions for future engagement opportunities for DIO, including career talks and the chance for me to mentor students from the University of Technology Brunei...
Inspiring the next generation to get involved in construction
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Kier VolkerFitzpatrick, United States Visiting Forces Infrastructure Programme
...Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and its contractors are able to deliver the vital infrastructure for the United States Visiting Forces Infrastructure Programme. When KVF was appointed by DIO as the contractor...
From IRA attacks to escorting the Queen: 25 years of the MOD Guard Service
![Today, access control systems are much more sophisticated. [Crown Copyright/MOD]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/10/IMG_9224-1024x660.jpg)
...just the ‘MOD Guard Force’. I joined the Guard Force shortly after the Brighton IRA bombing; previously I had worked for Securicor for six years. Suddenly being on the front...
Striving for equality for all
...of women in the defence enterprise and the men and women striving for gender equality. Please consider nominating your colleagues for these awards. We are firm believers that we achieve...
Rising to the sustainability challenge through recycling and waste reduction on the Defence Estate
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DIO communications team, Posted on:
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Glen Mallan jetty, Land Management, Landmarc, Northern Ammunition Jetty, RAF Lossiemouth, Skanska, Sustainability
![Keeping the Defence Estate clean [Copyright Landmarc Support Services Limited, 2018]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/05/MAL_7492-1024x680.jpg)
...an opportunity for us all to consider how we can ‘Step It Up’ in our efforts to recycle and re-use more of the right things, more often. Recycling and waste...
Year in review: What DIO has achieved in 2023
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DIO Communications Team, Posted on:
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Accommodation, Cyprus, Defence Estate, Defence Training Estate (DTE), Environment and Ecology, Military Training, Operation Nightingale, Sustainability, Working at DIO
It’s been a busy year for us at DIO. From supporting the Coronation of King Charles III to supplying more than 20,000kg of turkey to Armed Forces personnel over Christmas,...
Stress Awareness Month 2022: how we can support each other to combat stress
...for self-care. Whether you are someone who enjoys being active, find breathing exercises beneficial or loves meeting up with friends, don’t forget to make time for yourself to re-charge your...