RAF - Inside DIO

No Mow May at RAF St Mawgan: the best excuse for not mowing the lawn!

Samuel Ibbotson, 6 September 2022 - Defence Training Estate (DTE), Environment and Ecology, Sustainability

I’m Samuel Ibbotson, an Estate Facility Manager for DIO. My role is an interesting and varied one, and this summer at RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall has been no exception, following a station-wide “No Mow May” initiative. First launched in …

Celebrating construction and facilities management award successes

DIO communications team, 20 October 2021 - Construction, Defence Training Estate (DTE), Facilities Management

This month, DIO and our industry partners are celebrating several successes in prestigious award schemes across the British construction and facilities management sectors. At the 2021 Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) Impact Awards, our partners Mitie and Sodexo were recognised for their delivery …

RAF Odiham runway upgrades completed 

DIO Communications Team, 19 August 2021 - RAF, Runways

We’ve just finished a programme of work to upgrade the runway and associated airfield lighting at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. Why does a helicopter station need a runway?  Royal Air Force Odiham is a front-line helicopter base and home of …

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 …

Strengthening partnerships at RAF Lakenheath

Keith Maddison, 15 July 2019 - Kier VolkerFitzpatrick, RAF Lakenheath

Construction has begun on the first set of projects to prepare the airbase in Suffolk for the arrival of two new squadrons of US F35s in 2021.

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.

Proud to support DIO and the RAF

Squadron Leader Sarah Brewin, 6 April 2018 - RAF, RAF Valley, Working at DIO

Hi, I’m Squadron Leader Sarah Brewin. I joined the Personnel Support branch in 2006, and my career has taken me all over the world, including the Middle East, Ascension Island, Northern Scotland and North Wales, working mainly in infrastructure and …

Looking Ahead: a project update from RAF Marham

Lieutenant Colonel Ian Jenkins, 22 January 2018 - F-35B Lightning II, Project Management, Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers, RAF Marham, Runways

It’s been a while since my last blog on the progress of work we’re undertaking at RAF Marham to prepare it to be the Main Operating Base of the Royal Navy and RAF’s F-35 Lightning fleet, so this seems a …

Lightning Progress at RAF Marham

Lieutenant Colonel Ian Jenkins, 21 March 2017 - F-35B Lightning II, Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers

Hi, I’m Lieutenant Colonel Ian Jenkins and DIO’s on-site project manager at RAF Marham overseeing the DIO portion of the infrastructure uplift required to support the F-35B aircraft arrival at the Station in 2018. Having spent 18 years in the …

More than just an aircraft hangar

Denis Williams, 28 February 2017 - RAF Brize Norton

Surely one aircraft hangar is much like the next? Well, not quite, especially when it’s an MRO, or Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility. My name is Denis Williams. I am a DIO project manager and I’d like to tell you …

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