Interserve Preferred Bidder for New Defence Rehabilitation Centre
Interserve, the international support services and construction group, has been selected as preferred bidder to build the new £200 million Defence establishment at the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) at Stanford Hall, near Loughborough.
The project, for BS Stanford Ltd, involves the construction of a new 37,000 square metre specialist clinical facility together with the alteration and refurbishment of the Grade II* listed Stanford Hall, an Art Deco Theatre and other ancillary listed buildings as well as extensive landscaping work. The new Defence Rehabilitation facility is due to be operational in 2018.
The new clinical rehabilitation centre for the armed forces will improve and advance treatments already provided for injured service-men and -women and will provide immediate access to on-site patient diagnosis and treatment plans, support significant advances in medical research and offer extensive outdoor facilities to benefit the early stages of rehabilitation.
The facility will combine the very latest technology with proven specialist rehabilitation expertise in defence medical services. The size, location and tranquillity of the estate was a key factor in its selection as the location for the DNRC.
Interserve Chief Executive Adrian Ringrose said: "We are very proud to have been chosen to build this state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility, which will ensure that our injured Service-men and -women continue to receive the very best in medical care and that the UK remains at the forefront of advances in rehabilitation medicine."
