Headquarters
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has its head office in the Farnborough House, a building that is a part of a compound within the boundary of Farnborough Airport, located near Aldershot, Rushmoor, Hampshire, near Farnborough. The approximately 1.75-hectare (4.3-acre) head office site, which houses three large buildings and car park facilities, is in a lightly wooded area south of the main runway of Farnborough Airport. The buildings at the AAIB site include an (as of 2005) L-shaped, two storey flat roof office building and a hangar. The original buildings were from the 1970s. Lana Design supervised the construction of a 4,700-square-metre (51,000 sq ft) two storey new addition to the main building. It includes offices, acoustic laboratories, and a lecture theatre. The addition had a cost of 2.6 million pounds.
A sub-branch of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is being built on the site and will be occupied by RAIB staff from September 2012.
The AAIB site is south of the airfield and east of the Puckeridge Ammunition Depot, and it is located near the Basingstoke Canal. Cove Brook, about 155 metres (509 ft) south of the AAIB head office, runs from the northwest to the southeast. The AAIB head office is accessible from Berkshire Copse Road, which dissects through the length of the AAIB head office site. The Borough of Rushmoor stated that the AAIB complex "requires a secluded" and "secure" location due to "the nature of its operation."
Previously the AAIB head office was in the Shell Mex House along Strand in City of Westminster, London.
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