London Biggin Hill is the fastest growing business airport in the UK with major investment transforming it into a world-class centre of aviation.

The iconic airport’s most ambitious and technically challenging development yet is a spectacular dual cantilever ‘super-hangar’ for occupation by aerospace giant Bombardier. It is the UK’s largest dual cantilever hangar and follows the same design philosophy as the Lockheed Hangar in Georgia

which originally featured in the Building With Steel Magazine in 1968 and later issues of New Steel Construction.

Bombardier’s prestigious structure would have been impossible to build within budget in any other material than steel – and it was achieved at the peak of the pandemic with all steel fabricated and erected in 2020 to 2021.

The Client’s vision was for an advanced MRO hangar with two 160m clear span entrances and underslung cranes for servicing aircraft, along with offices and a VIP lounge.