Matthew Carter, Design Manager

Matthew has nearly 45 years’ experience in design and construction site management on a variety of projects in the private and public sectors in the UK, including the rehabilitation works to the 3.3km main runway at Gatwick Airport, which handles more than 53 hourly aircraft movements and is the world’s busiest single runway.
This required over 50,000 tonnes of Marshal asphalt to resurface, with all materials batched on site. Each night shift planed and re-surfaced approximately 120 linear metres of the runway while works progressed to renew the aeronautical ground lighting’s 38km of duct and pit systems. Over 1,900 runway and taxiway lights were fitted and fed by 530km of new electrical cabling.
While the runway rehabilitation was being undertaken, other improvements were delivered at the same time. This included the enhancement of the existing runway guard bar system and an upgrade of the runway’s drainage system with four new attenuation tanks. After work was completed all machinery was cleared, the runway was inspected for FOD and then returned to the airport for normal operations.
Matthew’s other duties have included site and project management, design management client liaison, local authority/utility company liaison, managing sub-contractors, preparing RAMS, programme monitoring, ensuring quality control monitoring, ensuring commercial constraints were met, adequate, effective and above all safe methods of work were employed by staff, required staffing and training levels were met and identifying areas of continuous improvement.