MAG appoints £60 million property contractors framework

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has appointed the contractors to work across its property portfolio, Place North West has revealed.

MAG’s £60 million Engineering Project Management and Design Services framework covers the group’s property at Manchester and East Midlands Airports across a range of disciplines including project management, engineering, airport advisory, architectural services.

Contracts for Stansted Airport, which MAG also operates, worth a further £60 million, are to be handled by a separate tendering process within the next five years.

Contractors appointed across the four lots are:

Project Management Services:  

• Mace 
• Lendlease Consulting  
• Capita Property and Infrastructure 
• Turner & Townsend Project Management 

Multidisciplinary Engineering Services: 

• Aecom 
• Costain 
• Mott Macdonald  
• Arcadis Consulting  
• Jacobs UK 

Airport Advisory Services: 

• Jacobs UK 
• Mott Macdonald 
• Atkins  

Architectural Services: 

• Strzala Architects 
• AHR Architects  
• Pascal+Watson 

Travel through the airport has been significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and Manchester Airport is currently operating only from Terminal 1. MAG is partly owned by Greater Manchester’s local authorities, which have contributed £250 million to the company to ensure its survival as travel restrictions and quarantines on arrival have led to a sharp decline in passenger numbers.

MAG CEO, Charlie Cornish, has described a 14 day quarantine for arrivals to the UK as a ‘brick wall’ to economic recovery for tourism and aviation.