Help for Heroes is supporting the initiative with a £21m commitment. The project is part of HMS Drake's larger Naval Service Recovery Centre.
The 'Endeavour Centre' is a recovery complex offering state-of-the-art rehabilitation equipment. This complex consists of three buildings incorporating a gym, consultation rooms, a 'Café Hero' social area and a hydrotherapy area with changing facilities. A 25-metre six-lane competition pool is also provided, featuring a floor that can be raised or lowered according to need. The pool's floor is made of low-density material to enable it to float if required. Outside, a terraced area has been created with seating and a bronze statue focal point depicting the stretcher-bearers' imagery associated with Help for Heroes.
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The facility will provide those who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses with the very best support they need, for life.
At the recovery complex Interserve's groundworks included remediation of land contaminated with hydrocarbons and metals. The ground was then piled by Interserve using bored displacement piles before excavation began for the swimming pools. Of steel frame construction, the finished buildings comprise metal and brick cladding with powder coated aluminium glazed curtain walling. Two of the buildings feature roofs in Euroclad Elite System 4 Cladding and the third has built-up insulated felt. The 69-week construction period has seen Interserve hand over the project on time and within budget.
Last summer, Interserve also handed over 'Parker VC', a specialist adaptive accommodation facility with 60 single 'cabins' and six family 'cabins'. Both the Endeavour Centre and the Parker VC facilities will be run and staffed by the Navy/MoD with Interserve continuing to provide a full range of 24-hour support services for injured service personnel including catering, cleaning, hotel services and building maintenance.
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