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27/10/2016

Landmarc Delivers £2.4m Army Training Facility Upgrade

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Landmarc Support Services has delivered a £2.4 million upgrade project at New Zealand Farm Camp in Wiltshire.

The contractor worked in partnership with contractor SWH Group and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to improve training facilities at the site on Salisbury Plain Training Area.

Works included demolishing 12 buildings and replacing them with 11 multi-functional 'stone tent' structures.

Other features on the scheme involved improving the surrounding infrastructure with tracks and hardstandings, as well as upgraded street lighting and a new public address system with provision for military personnel to remotely plug in to a Field Electrical Power Supply (FEPS) generator.
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Clive Paxman, project manager at Landmarc Support Services, said: "The buildings have been developed so that they provide a realistic, challenging physical training environment through strategically arranged tunnels and overhead gantries to simulate different risks and threats, doors have been fitted with ironmongery that will sustain clearance procedures, windows are designed to minimise breakages and the shutters have catches allowing them to be locked in both open and closed positions. All of this will also greatly reduce ongoing maintenance costs, allowing money to be invested elsewhere."

Brigadier Neil Dalton, Head of DIO's Service Delivery Training team, added: "DIO's priority is to support our armed forces by delivering the facilities they need to live, work, train and deploy on operations. The improvement works at New Zealand Farm Camp on Salisbury Plain have delivered a versatile and modern facility for troops training in the South West."

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