Our projects: making a positive impact in the UK

Here are a few examples of projects we’ve completed or are currently working on.

Brabazon

We are transforming the former Filton Airfield in north Bristol into a new town, Brabazon - an exciting new fully integrated place to live, work and play.

The airfield was the birthplace of Concorde and supersonic travel and home to more than 100 years of aviation history.

Brabazon new town is a place for enjoyment and entertainment, a centre of learning and a launchpad for business, a hub for industry and invention, with a beating social heart.

With a new live entertainment complex being built as part of the development, Brabazon will be a centre for the arts and culture, inspiring and entertaining in equal measure.

It will be home to thousands of people of every generation, while its green parks and shaded public squares will bind the community together.

Every aspect of the development will be at the forefront of low carbon, sustainable development.

Plans are already approved for a new urban community, enterprise district, entertainment complex, parks, schools, a university quarter and commercial developments, including:

6,500 houses and apartments
55,000 m² of purpose-built student accommodation
three hotels
600-bed retirement village
270,000 m² of office space
55,000 m² of high-tech industrial
25,000 m² of retail space
55,000 m² university campus
associated infrastructure, including parkland and lake
20,000 capacity arena, conference and exhibition space.

Located near the M4/M5 motorways, the transport infrastructure includes a new dedicated railway station, MetroBus stops and extensive cycling and walking provision.

YTL Live entertainment complex

Former home to all UK Concordes, the historic Brabazon Hangars are being transformed into a new live entertainment complex. Featuring a 20,000 capacity arena, 10,000 m² of conference and exhibition space and an innovative digital entertainment hub, the complex will host 140 live music events and conferences and exhibitions annually.

Sustainability will be centre stage, creating one of the most sustainable arenas in Europe, carbon neutral from day one.

Aerial view of Bristol Water Recycling Centre

Bristol’s water recycling centre

YTL Construction, on behalf of Wessex Water, is extending Avonmouth water recycling centre as part of a £100 million investment to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding city.

Bristol’s water recycling centre treats sewage and wastewater from the city and the surrounding area, but with the local population projected to increase significantly in the next 20 years, further capacity is needed to meet these demands.

The expansion will allow a greater volume of sewage to be treated to the highest standard, while also protecting the environment by improving the quality of treated wastewater released into the Severn Estuary.

This increased treatment capacity will also play a role in reducing the automatic operation of storm overflows when rapidly increasing flows caused by sudden heavy storms can overwhelm the sewer system.

Started in January 2024, the project is expected to take five years to complete.

Holdenhurst water recycling centre

As the town of Bournemouth continues to grow, so too does the need to protect its popular beaches by increasing the capacity in its sewer system to reduce the number of discharges from storm overflows.

YTL Construction UK is providing an extra nine million litres of additional storage at Wessex Water’s water recycling centre at Holdenhurst, by building a new 65 metre-long storm tank.

The extra storage will help reduce overflow operations to further enhance water quality, and the project also includes processes to remove nutrients to further protect rivers and coasts from excessive growths of algae that can damage ecology and wildlife.

The project is part of Wessex Water’s commitment to progressively reducing storm overflow operation across its region – including investing £30 million on the south coast in Dorset.

Somerset Levels and Moors wetland

Creating new wetland habitats as an Integrated Constructed Wetland within the Somerset Levels and Moors - an internationally protected site renowned for its wetlands, birds and wildlife - is one of the projects YTL Construction will be working on next year on behalf of Wessex Water.

This £5 million investment just north of the village of Shapwick between Bridgwater and Glastonbury will use natural methods to help protect one of England’s most important wildlife landscapes from the impact of nutrients.

Sited on more than 25 hectares of land owned by Wessex Water – and adjacent to the Hawk and Owl Trust’s existing nature reserve – the two-part site would see the creation of an Integrated Constructed Wetland and a new grassland site.

The ambition is for this land to become a haven for wildlife under the stewardship of the Hawk and Owl Trust within the Somerset Wetlands National Nature Reserve.

Proposals have been submitted to Somerset Council for consideration and, if successful, the six-month construction project would begin in summer of 2026.