// Regulated by RICS // NEC4 and NEC3 // Airside and landside // UK-wide //
Commercial support for airfield and terminal works in live airports
Chartered quantity surveying and NEC contract administration for contractors delivering airside and landside infrastructure while the airport keeps operating.
One of six sectors. Capability tier; the disciplines transfer.
What Peak Commercial does on airport infrastructure works
Peak Commercial provides chartered quantity surveying and NEC contract administration for contractors delivering airfield, terminal and baggage infrastructure works in live airports. An airport does not stop for construction. Airfield resurfacing, taxiway and apron works, terminal refurbishment and baggage system replacement are all delivered in short night-time windows, under aerodrome safety rules, with the airport's revenue running in the background. The commercial consequence is that access, sequencing and the cost of standing time dominate the account.
The firm brings the target cost and contract administration disciplines its directors have practised on highways and water for seventeen and twenty years to that environment. Same NEC family of contracts; the difference is the constraint. Works are programmed to the airport's operational calendar, the Accepted Programme carries dozens of access windows, and every change to one of them has a commercial effect that has to be notified and recorded on the day.
We say plainly where the evidence sits. The directors' delivery record is on road and water programmes. What transfers to aviation is the discipline of administering a target cost contract where the client controls access, and the habit of building records the client's audit function can follow.
What this includes
NEC4 and NEC3 contract administration on airfield, terminal and landside frameworks
Compensation event notification and assessment for access changes, night working and operational restrictions
Target cost build-up and forecasting around restricted working windows
Defined Cost records structured by shift and access period
Subcontract procurement and administration for specialist airfield and systems suppliers
Interim applications, payment notices and final account settlement
Party representation in adjudication and mediation
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Water
AMP8 frameworks under NEC4 Option C and Option E, administered to survive the water company's commercial assurance and the regulator behind it. The firm is building a commercial team of more than fifteen on one major AMP8 framework.
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Highways
Strategic road network and local authority programmes under NEC4 target cost, through the RIS3 road period that began in April 2026. Where the directors learned the trade.
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Nuclear
Civils, enabling and infrastructure packages on the nuclear estate, with Defined Cost records built to audit grade from mobilisation. Capability tier; the disciplines transfer.
// Regulated by RICS // NEC4 and NEC3 // Airside and landside // UK-wide //
The commercial shape of airside work
Airside construction runs to the airport's clock. Work windows open when the last flight lands and close before the first departure, and the contractor mobilises, works and demobilises inside them. Lose a window to weather, an operational decision or a late permit and the cost of the shift is incurred with nothing to show for it.
The Civil Aviation Authority's aerodrome licensing regime, set out in CAP 168, and the airport operator's own safety management system govern how the work is done, and both add procedural steps that a commercial team has to plan for: airside passes, escorts, permits to work and FOD control among them. None of that is optional, and all of it costs time. A tender that prices the work as though it were a greenfield site will be wrong, and a compensation event quotation that ignores the operational overhead will be undervalued.
Our approach is to model the operational constraint into the target from the start, keep the Early Warning Register live against the airport's calendar, and record every lost or shortened window on the day so the commercial position never depends on reconstruction later.
Who we act for
Main contractors on airfield and terminal frameworks. Specialist subcontractors in pavement, airfield ground lighting, baggage handling systems and terminal fit-out working under NEC subcontracts. Airport operators and their delivery partners who need an independent commercial review, where we act as party representative if an account is in dispute.
Talk to a quantity surveyor
Talk to a chartered specialist about your airport programme. Send us the contract, the works schedule and the key correspondence. We will tell you where you stand, what it is worth pursuing, and what it is not.
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