{"id":62619,"date":"2015-10-08T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=aed32a4d586ce82b2b0819e8037d1716"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:43:29","slug":"news-story-dio-hands-over-technical-support-accommodation-at-raf-lossiemouth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62619","title":{"rendered":"News story: DIO hands over technical support accommodation at RAF Lossiemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The new annexe to Hangar 3 houses operations briefing rooms, mission planning, changing rooms, aircrew lockers, equipment servicing space and the aircraft line operations. It is also home to the engineering ground crew and support trades.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012, <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has provided around \u00a387 million of work at RAF Lossiemouth, including refurbishing Hangar 1, and refurbishing and extending the annexe accommodation for 6 Squadron, refurbishing Hangar 3 and providing interim accommodation for 1 (Fighter) Squadron and building a high quality Quick Reaction Alert.<\/p>\n<p>By using a staged approach, the works package was able to provide both interim and permanent operational and engineering support facilities for both 6 Squadron and 1 (Fighter) Squadron on their arrivals at RAF Lossiemouth in March 2014 and September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Taylor, the <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> Project Manager, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is a great example of <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> investing in the infrastructure our armed forces need to live, train and deploy. It was a real team effort and our contractor Turners worked closely with us to ensure a very high quality of work. The pace of construction and quality of the end product reflected excellent project management, and stakeholder and contractor communications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wing Commander Chantal Baker, Officer Commanding Base Support Wing, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The programme of infrastructure works at RAF Lossiemouth has been essential to the transition of the station from a Tornado to Typhoon main operating base delivering Quick Reaction Alert. <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has provided essential facilities for the frontline Typhoon personnel of 1 (Fighter) Squadron to operate. This phase of infrastructure investment continues to support the RAF Lossiemouth mission of protecting the UK\u2019s skies and preparing for global operations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the programme of hangar and annexe refurbishments, extensions and new builds, <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has delivered Quick Reaction Alert (North) infrastructure, aircraft simulator facilities, IT support systems, Typhoon availability service workshops\/storage and runway de-icer storage facilities. Work is going well on the remaining Typhoon project at Lossiemouth: a new squadron facility for II (Army Cooperation) Squadron on the southern side of the airfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has handed over a new airside annexe as part of a project to support the relocation of 3 squadrons of Typhoon aircraft from RAF Leuchars to RAF Lossiemouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}