The facts:
Location: Leatherhead, Surrey
Client: Defence Estates
Start Date: 2008
End Date: May 2010
Cost: £13m
Services: Architecture, Landscaping, Civil
Engineering, Structures and Services
Sector: Defence
The project:
The objectives of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation
Centre (DMRC) at Headley Court were to build/ renovate a
tri-service military rehabilitation unit.
The self containing unit would house a £25m swimming pool, jacuzzi
and aqua jogger along with an upgraded sports hall and three
new medical rehabilitation centres. It would specialise in the
treatment of military patients with complex trauma, brain and
spinal injury, and a full range of muscular skeletal and
rheumatologic conditions.
Capita Symonds was architect and structural engineer in control of
the scheme from design to implementation.
The site itself had a highly sensitive environment bounded by a
Grade 1 listed wall. Further analysis revealed that it was not cost
effective to keep the existing wall and gym as initially
thought. Capita Symonds was instrumental in advising the
design team with regard to the best practicable means of balancing
these issues in order to generate a successful and sympathetic
design.
Capita Symonds’ involvement with this project highlights our
commitment to corporate social responsibility, pledging that a
proportion of the profits generated by the project would be
returned to the facility to aid the recovery of the service men and
women it provides such an essential service for.