Royal Air Force personnel will be served by a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool as leading multi-disciplinary consultancy Pick Everard delivers a new £5 million facility.
The leading independent property, construction and infrastructure consultancy provided architecture, structural, civil and building services on the project based at RAF Honington, Suffolk.
The two storey indoor training, rehabilitation and recreational hydrotherapy pool – for client Babcock Dyncorp & Graham Construction – will play a major role in supporting 11,000 servicemen acting as a Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU).
Paul Darlow, director at Pick Everard, said: “This fantastic new facility will serve thousands of army servicemen across the region, helping with the recovery of injured personnel.
“The new regional rehabilitation unit replaces the existing facility and has been designed to meet the needs of its 21st Century users.”
The 25m pool has six lanes and embraces sustainable technologies and materials (DREAM assessed), such as exposed structural glulam beams with insulated timber cassettes.
The RRU is unique in that it is one of a few centers across the country serving most of East Anglia with musculoskeletal rehabilitation facilities. It has its own assessment and treatment areas, changing rooms and links through to the already existing gym.
The building covers 1,450 square metres on a site of 4,550 square metres and includes 10 new parking spaces, five of which are disabled. The development also includes landscaping with tree planting.
Duncan Green, partner at Pick Everard, said: “We helped the client to maintain use of the existing pool while construction works were carried out and it has now been demolished now the new facility is fully operational.”