Vertipad infrastructure · Patent-protected
Aeroberm™ unlocks Advanced Air Mobility by solving the three showstoppers that hinder Advanced Air Mobility in urban areas: outwash, noise, and fire safety. One scalable, modular, world-first patent.
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Problem → solution
Every major barrier to urban Advanced Air Mobility maps to a specific technical solution built into Aeroberm — no retrofits, no workarounds.
Powerful rotor wash creates safety risks for people, vehicles, and surrounding infrastructure, limiting where aircraft can land.
Aeroberm’s patented design manages and dissipates rotor wash, enabling safer operations in dense urban environments.
Community acceptance is constrained by both rotor noise and ground interaction effects during take-off and landing.
Our fractal panels not only reduce wind speeds, they also suppress ground-level noise impacts during take-off and landing.
Battery fires and emergency scenarios require new safety standards not yet embedded in most proposed vertiport designs.
Our optional dunk tank has been assessed by experts as perhaps the only way to conclusively extinguish a lithium battery fire in thermal runaway.
Urban environments face zoning, setback, and safety buffer challenges that restrict viable sites.
A compact, modular design reduces spatial requirements and helps unlock sites previously considered unviable.
Most vertiport concepts are bespoke, expensive, and slow to deploy, unsuitable for network-scale rollout.
Unlike bespoke vertiports, Aeroberm is modular and rapidly deployable, enabling network-scale rollout globally at a fixed price.
Nature uses self-similar patterns to solve complex problems — and so does Aeroberm. The patented fractal panel surface embeds logarithmically spaced vanes into the vertipad structure, engineered to intercept and ameliorate the dangerous outwash vortices generated by eVTOL rotors at every scale simultaneously.
Rather than just deflecting the problem sideways, the fractal geometry redirects energy downwards and under the elevated pad — achieving viscous energy dissipation rates up to ninety percent higher than conventional surfaces. Independently validated by Swinburne University research, this is the outwash solution the industry has been waiting for.
Research credibility
Aeroberm is built on a research partnership with Swinburne University of Technology, led by Professor Justin Leontini, with world-class expertise in applying fundamental flow physics to the modelling and simulation of fluid and aerodynamics.
The work is backed by the Australian Government through its Industry Growth Programme and recognised by industry with the Blue Sky Innovation Award at Avalon International Airshow 2025.
Research partner
Swinburne University of Technology
Aerodynamics · acoustics · AAM systems
Government backing
Industry Growth Programme
Australian Federal grant support
Industry recognition
Blue Sky Innovation Award
Avalon International Airshow 2025
Fire safety
A dedicated operational safeguard for battery thermal events, separate from the fractal landing surface.
Electric air taxis use lithium-ion batteries, which can go into “thermal runaway”, a chain reaction creating intense fires that are extremely difficult to extinguish and can reignite hours later. In a vertiport setting, this can shut down operations for days, making property owners and regulators wary of hosting landing sites.
Aeroberm incorporates an optional “dunk tank” that lowers the aircraft into a contained water pit, fully immersing it to extinguish the fire at its source. Full immersion is widely regarded as the only reliable way to stop a lithium battery fire completely.
Expert perspective
Is dunking an aircraft in water really the best we can do? It sounds dramatic, but there's a strong case that total immersion may be the only method that actually stops a lithium-ion battery fire dead in its tracks, rather than merely containing it.
Insurance & Risk · Built-In Confidence
Vertiport insurance is one of the least understood and most critical elements of getting an urban air mobility operation approved and funded. Aeroberm has engaged directly with specialist aviation underwriters to ensure operators who deploy our infrastructure have access to informed, purpose-built insurance support from day one.
Our infrastructure is designed with insurability in mind. While every site is different and remain subject to underwriting, we expect our Aeroberm vertipad infrastructure will deliver meaningful advantages over ad hoc landing arrangements, including:
Aeroberm works with Advanced Technology Assurance (ATA), a specialist underwriter with deep expertise in emerging aviation technology.
Six aircraft are expected to achieve commercial certification in the next two to three years. The question is no longer “if” but where they land, surface supply, planning, and economics on private land.
Programmes are concentrating in the highest-activity corridors. The metrics below frame certification timing, corridor activity, and why pad-edge wind thresholds matter for infrastructure design.
Certification wave
6
Aircraft expected to reach commercial certification within 2–3 years.
US test corridors
8
US states already enabling limited eVTOL testing and integration work.
FAA threshold
34.5 mph
Wind speed at the pad edge defines structural and surface design. Fractal diffusion is how you hold that line on tighter footprints.
Blue-sky market
Our market analysis, drawing on datasets from McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, and Roland Berger, models vertipad demand across five frontier cities where land economics, congestion, and regulatory momentum compound fastest.
New York
Metro + tristate
Brisbane
Olympic corridor
Shenzhen
Greater Bay Area
Dubai
Gulf smart city mandate
Delhi
Vertical density + congestion
These five cities represent a $200M annual vertipad market by 2045. The global opportunity is estimated at 10 to 20 times that figure. Every one of those pads needs a surface standard. Right now, only one exists.
Request market studyEcosystem
Aeroberm is the foundation, but we don't stop at the surface. Through a curated network of certified ecosystem partners, we can deliver a complete, commercially operational vertiport: charging infrastructure, airspace management, weather intelligence, connectivity, and vertiport operations software. One relationship. One integrated stack. Built on the only patented vertipad surface in the world, and ready to operate from day one.
Deployment scenarios
Here is where Aeroberm lands first.
The shift to urban air mobility doesn't require new land. It requires existing land to be looked at differently. Aeroberm is designed to deploy across the full range of built environment typologies, modular, structurally sympathetic, and engineered to meet the planning and safety requirements that turn a property asset into a certified landing site for air taxis.
Paid consulting service
Think you have the perfect vertiport site?
We tell you what it's worth to the low altitude economy.
Our planning, engineering, and aviation team conducts a comprehensive site assessment that gives you a complete picture, from the structural capacity of what you own today to the commercial value it could generate when the first air taxis arrive. The output is a written readiness report, credible and documented, designed to be taken directly to capital partners, planning authorities, and regulators.
Expressions of interest
We are appointing a small number of regional licence distributors to deploy Aeroberm at scale in their territory. Distributors take commercial responsibility for sales, installation partners, and after-market service inside an exclusive geography. Submit an expression of interest and our team will respond within ten business days.
Existing operators in aviation infrastructure, real estate, or Advanced Air Mobility are particularly welcome to apply.
Submit an EOI →Aeroberm is not just a product, it is a scalable infrastructure standard for urban air mobility.
Three pathways. One team.
Find out what your site is worth to the low altitude economy, and what it would take to get it certified.
Understand the IP, the market, and the investment potential.
We work with universities, test ranges, and public programmes that need certified-grade vertipad surfaces.
