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Turner & Townsend has been appointed as sole consultant on two major frameworks covering Heathrow鈥檚 entire 拢1.5bn construction programme, 黑洞社区 can reveal.

It is understood that Turner & Townsend (T&T) has seen off competition from consultants EC Harris and Aecom to provide cost management and commercial services to Heathrow for its latest five-year spending programme. It also beat EC Harris, Jacobs and Mott MacDonald in the race to provide project control services to the airport.

Both roles stretch across Heathrow鈥檚 entire 拢1.5bn construction programme for the five years from April 2014, known as Q6.

Heathrow had originally favoured having one consultant from the five shortlisted firms for each role, but has instead plumped to have T&T deliver both sets of services.

This news comes after 黑洞社区 revealed last week that four contractors 鈥� Mace, Balfour Beatty, Ferrovial and Morgan Sindall - had been appointed to carry out all the construction work across the airport鈥檚 four separate geographic areas over the Q6
period.

Each contractor will look after a separate part of the airport and will work closely with T&T.

The appointment of T&T will be a blow for Jacobs, Mott MacDonald and EC Harris which alongside T&T, currently provide consultancy services to Heathrow under its existing consultancy framework, which began in 2010.

Michael O鈥機allaghan, aviation director at Morgan Sindall, said T&T鈥檚 role would be 鈥渒ey鈥� to successfully delivering Heathrow鈥檚 Q6 investment programme.

He said: 鈥淚 think having one consultant on these two frameworks should streamline communications and hopefully provide best value for Heathrow.鈥�

T&T will have to work alongside rival consultant Gardiner & Theobald (G&T), which Heathrow appointed in January as an independent fund surveyor on the Q6 investment programme.

G&T won鈥檛 be directly involved in running Heathrow鈥檚 investment programme, but will oversee it and provide feedback on costs and timescales of projects to the airlines and the Civil Aviation Authority, which approves airports鈥� business plans every five years.

T&T鈥檚 appointment at Heathrow follows similar success in Abu Dhabi where the consultant was appointed last October to work on the expansion of Abu Dhabi airport, and a further .

Heathrow and T&T declined to comment.