AerobermA Skyportz Company

Vertipad infrastructure · Patent-protected

The air taxis are coming.The landing network is the bottleneck.We solved it.

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.

Problem → solution

Five showstoppers. One patented answer.

Every major barrier to urban Advanced Air Mobility maps to a specific technical solution built into Aeroberm — no retrofits, no workarounds.

  1. 01Barrier

    Downwash and outwash

    Powerful rotor wash creates safety risks for people, vehicles, and surrounding infrastructure, limiting where aircraft can land.

    Aeroberm solution

    Downwash and outwash controlled

    Aeroberm’s patented design manages and dissipates rotor wash, enabling safer operations in dense urban environments.

  2. 02Barrier

    Noise impacts

    Community acceptance is constrained by both rotor noise and ground interaction effects during take-off and landing.

    Aeroberm solution

    Noise reduced at the source

    Our fractal panels not only reduce wind speeds, they also suppress ground-level noise impacts during take-off and landing.

  3. 03Barrier

    Fire safety risks

    Battery fires and emergency scenarios require new safety standards not yet embedded in most proposed vertiport designs.

    Aeroberm solution

    Fire safety built in

    Our optional dunk tank has been assessed by experts as perhaps the only way to conclusively extinguish a lithium battery fire in thermal runaway.

  4. 04Barrier

    Planning and regulatory constraints

    Urban environments face zoning, setback, and safety buffer challenges that restrict viable sites.

    Aeroberm solution

    Planning-friendly footprint

    A compact, modular design reduces spatial requirements and helps unlock sites previously considered unviable.

  5. 05Barrier

    Cost and scalability

    Most vertiport concepts are bespoke, expensive, and slow to deploy, unsuitable for network-scale rollout.

    Aeroberm solution

    Scalable, deployable infrastructure

    Unlike bespoke vertiports, Aeroberm is modular and rapidly deployable, enabling network-scale rollout globally at a fixed price.

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Fractal geometry. Our secret sauce.

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

World-class research partnerships

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.

  • Swinburne University of Technology logo

    Research partner

    Swinburne University of Technology

    Aerodynamics · acoustics · AAM systems

  • Industry Growth Programme logo

    Government backing

    Industry Growth Programme

    Australian Federal grant support

  • Avalon AMDA Innovation Awards 2025 Winner medal

    Industry recognition

    Blue Sky Innovation Award

    Avalon International Airshow 2025

Fire safety

Managing fire risk through infrastructure

When lithium-ion batteries fail, they fail catastrophically. Aeroberm offers a purpose-built containment system, integrated into the vertipad structure itself.

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Total immersion.
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The problem

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 location, this could shut down operations for days, making property owners wary of hosting landing sites.

The Aeroberm solution

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.

Air safety regulators around the world are now in the process of reviewing new safety standards for electric aviation.

Containment
100%
Reignition risk
Zero
Toxic water pollution
ZERO

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 solutions

Safer vertiports reduce insurance premiums

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.

Insurance underwriters need evidence of risk mitigation. Aeroberm provides it at the infrastructure level. While each site is subject to individual underwriting, we expect our vertipad system to offer meaningful advantages over improvised landing arrangements, including:

  • More competitive premiums where dedicated infrastructure reduces third-party exposure
  • Lower deductibles where reduced outwash and debris risk limits attritional claims
  • Stronger underwriting appetite for standardised, controlled environments
  • Greater insurer confidence where operations are repeatable across multiple sites
  • Improved risk differentiation over time as operational data builds against conventional alternatives.

Our Insurance Partner

Aeroberm works with Advanced Technology Assurance (ATA), a specialist underwriter with deep expertise in emerging aviation technology.

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Blue-sky market

Five city market case study.
6,700+ vertipads. A global opportunity ten times bigger.

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.

  • 01

    New York

    Metro + tristate

    2,568 modelled pads
  • 02

    Brisbane

    Olympic corridor

    294 modelled pads
  • 03

    Shenzhen

    Greater Bay Area

    1,119 modelled pads
  • 04

    Dubai

    Gulf smart city mandate

    1,109 modelled pads
  • 05

    Delhi

    Vertical density + congestion

    1,643 modelled pads

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 that can be relied upon with confidence.

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Ecosystem

The full vertiport. Not just the pad.

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.

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Vertipad Assessment

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.

Physical & Structural
  • Site geometry, load bearing capacity, and structural upgrade requirements
  • Wind environment and microclimate analysis
  • Obstacle clearance mapping and approach path screening
  • Access and egress for passengers, emergency services, and maintenance
Planning & Regulatory
  • Zoning, land use compliance, and permit requirements
  • Outwash, noise, and airspace screening
  • Heritage, environmental, and sensitivity overlays
  • Neighbour impact assessment framework
  • Regulatory pathway in your jurisdiction
Commercial & Financial
  • Revenue modelling, landing fees, destination premiums, and asset value uplift
  • Indicative capex and rollout schedule
  • Lease structure options for operators
  • Insurance and liability considerations
Operational
  • Passenger throughput and turnaround capacity
  • Charging infrastructure requirements and grid connection assessment
  • Security requirements
  • Fit within emerging regional and national route networks
Network & Market Value
  • Proximity to demand generators, hospitals, transit hubs, CBD, hotels, and logistics nodes
  • Attractiveness to specific aircraft operators and use cases
  • Competitive site analysis within the same catchment
Risk Assessment
  • Key approvals risk and realistic timeline
  • Technology readiness risk relative to your site timeline
  • Recommendations for staging and de-risking the investment

Closing perspective

Aeroberm is not just a product, it is a scalable infrastructure standard for urban air mobility.

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Where do you want to start?

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