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2015 Year in Review

Posted by: DIO Communications Team, Posted on: 22 December 2015 - Categories: Accommodation, Army Basing Programme, Environment and Ecology, Military Training

DIO has had a busy year, living up to our aim of supporting Defence by leading and managing the delivery of what the Armed Forces need to live, work, train and deploy. 2015 has seen the completion of several major …

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Beacon Barracks: A Project BORONA Update

Posted by: Stuart Gallacher, Posted on: 22 June 2015 - Categories: Accommodation

I’m Stuart Gallacher, Principal Project Manager at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Just over a year ago I wrote about the development of Beacon Barracks in Stafford and associated family accommodation. Work on this project has progressed so well that …

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Building 346 homes in record time at Beacon Barracks

Posted by: John Leary, Posted on: 3 March 2015 - Categories: Accommodation

Lovell is the company which is building 346 new homes for soldiers and their families at Beacon Barracks, Stafford, in little over a year. If you've read the blog Stuart Gallacher, the DIO Project Manager, wrote last year you'll already have …

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Pulling out all the stops: Projects and Programme Delivery

Posted by: Air Vice Marshal Elaine West, Posted on: 29 September 2014 - Categories: Project Management

Hi, I’m Air Vice Marshall Elaine West, DIO’s Director of Projects and Programme Delivery (PPD). In contrast to most of the other members of the Senior Leadership Team who’ve been blogging lately, I’m not new to DIO. In fact, I’ve …

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The knack of effective planning: my BORONA

Posted by: Stuart Gallacher, Posted on: 3 June 2014 - Categories: Army Basing Programme, Project Management

Last year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the Regular Army Basing Plan. This will see the return of some 15,000 Service personnel to the UK from Germany by 2020, concentrating the Army’s manpower in seven geographic areas. These are Salisbury …

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Reflections on a busy and rewarding year

Posted by: Andrew Manley, Posted on: 23 December 2013 - Categories: Communications

Once again this has been a busy and demanding time for everybody in DIO. It's worth reflecting as we approach Christmas how far we have come this year, particularly as we continue to deliver to our military customers.     …

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