📋 Tender Overview
Scope: design, build and operate the infrastructure required by eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft, also known as flying cars.
Ferrovial Airports will deploy more than 25 vertiports in the UK, which will support the provision of high-speed, affordable and emissions-free travel.
Ferrovial Airports has announced plans to deploy a network of more than 25 vertiports in the UK. This initiative is another step in Ferrovial’s bid to lead the mobility of the future through the development of infrastructure for safe, high-speed, zero carbon aviation. It follows the recently announced agreement to develop a network of more than 10 vertiports in Florida, U.S.
Vertiports are essential to provide infrastructure for landing, recharging and taking off passengers of all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet aircrafts, such as those being developed by Lilium and Vertical Aerospace. They are integrated into communities and adapted to the surrounding environment, reducing noise impact and improving energy efficiency through innovative design.
To develop the design and engineering components of the vertiport infrastructure, Ferrovial has partnered with international architecture practice Grimshaw and global engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald.
The partnership between vertiports and eVTOLs will provide high speed, affordable, emissions-free travel to millions of people. This network will boost local economies with a new model of regional connectivity.
