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Airbus – Mars Rover, Stevenage

Client: Airbus Defence & Space
Contract: JCT Design & Build
Services: Project Management Design & Architecture Cost Consultancy

Overview:

BAS Property Consultants Ltd were instructed on what can only be described as a once in a lifetime project opportunity, as lead project managers on the construction of the test and bio clean room facilities for the build of a space terrain vehicle.

Test facility

In the first of two major facilities projects, the vehicle test facility was constructed in part of an existing single storey portal frame building to an area measuring approximately 30 sqm by 13 sqm and containing around 300 tonnes of kiln dried sand.

Bio clean room

The clean room facility, a class 100,000 (iso 8) bio clean room was designed at planning stage by BAS Property Consultants Ltd who managed from inception through the tender and construction stage to completion and witnessing of commissioning, snagging and de-snagging and final handover at practi­cal completion.

Internal view of a Mars yard testing environment featuring robotic rover prototypes on simulated planetary terrain within a controlled research and development facility

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