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Home/Projects/Education/Special Schools/The Chamwell Centre, Hydrotherapy Pool

The Chamwell Centre, Hydrotherapy Pool

Client
The Chamwell Centre Charity
Location
Longlevens Gloucester
Project Leaders
Robert Walder
Value
5.1M

Challenge

Quattro was appointed by the Chamwell Centre Charity to design an exciting and ground-breaking new facility in the grounds of The Milestone Special School, Gloucester, to support the needs of disabled children and adults across the county.

The main brief was to provide a centre that would support:

  • The Milestone School’s 308 pupils, all with severe and complex special needs, including 67 non-ambulant pupils
  • Pupils and students with additional needs in pre-school, other schools and colleges
  • All those in Gloucestershire who can benefit from fully accessible facilities for therapies, sports, athletics, work experience and leisure activities

Our proposals included:

  • A new 15m long hydrotherapy pool, one of the UK’s first multi-sensory therapy pools with the latest state-of-the-art video and light installations that provide full immersive sensory therapy for students; a rare resource in Gloucestershire and the centrepiece of Chamwell Centre. It is able to take a class of eight non-ambulant pupils and their one to one carers, making it one of the largest hydrotherapy pools in the country
  • A two-storey soft play room packed with equipment to stimulate the imagination and encourage exercise through play
  • A two-storey trampoline area for a rebound therapy room
  • Physio and occupational therapy consulting rooms for visiting doctors, nurses, speech and language therapists, delivering health education for The Milestone School pupils. These rooms would negate the need for the children to attend hospital clinics
  • A two-storey Atrium with café areas and informal meeting space, also available for Community use
  • A ‘Changing Places’ bathroom to ensure that the centre can cater for the needs of all visitors.

 

Sector
Special Schools
Healthcare
Tertiary Care
Sustainability
Services
Architecture
Community Consultation
Partners
Speller Metcalfe
Evans Jones

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Solution

From a design perspective, the main challenges were to design a centre that would cater for the wellbeing and needs of the adults and children using the facilities, whilst at the same time, catering for the staff groups providing the necessary high level of care, and finally, providing facilities for parent and visitors accompanying their friends or loved ones during their time at the centre. This required a great deal of consultation and stakeholder/community/user engagement to make sure the best facilities would be delivered.

 

Another key challenge was to assist the Trust in raising the necessary capital funding to support the development. A job that we really enjoyed; we were more than happy to attend and present at functions, consultations and working groups in order to raise awareness and the profile of this ground-breaking project.

We are very proud of the final building and are delighted with the results, which will transform the lives of disabled children and young adults across Gloucestershire.

It is a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of Speller Metcalfe, Quattro Architects and all those involved in the construction that this wonderful building has been realised, despite the restrictions and delays caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. Cont/...

Dr Marie Owen
Chair of Trustees at The Chamwell Centre

...They have succeeded in producing a state-of-the-art building, perfectly adapted to the needs of all our users.

Dr Marie Owen
Chair of Trustees at The Chamwell Centre

The result is a fantastic, bright and spacious base where we can make sure our teams and, most importantly, the service users and carers we support are given the best possible facilities to support recovery.

Jan Furniaux, Service Director
2gether Trust, Gloucestershire

A modern operating theatre will help us support a more comfortable and positive experience for patients. It also enables the hospital to be more efficient, minimise delays. Other facilities upgraded provide a much improved standard of area that supports the increased throughput of patients since the new IR theatre opened this year.

Robert Maybank, Senior Projects Manager
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We particularly enjoy Quattro's willingness to work with us to support and engage with others outside the design team, working with schools, colleges and local communities to inform and help stimulate interest and understanding of the construction industry.

Andy Metcalfe, Joint Managing Director
Speller Metcalfe, Gloucester

Our architects really listened to the outcomes that were important to us as a friendly and welcoming dental practice and managed to surpass them for both us and our patients.

Ellen Pawley, Practice Manager
Broad Street Dental Surgery, Hereford

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Clients and Partners

Apleona PPP Ltd
Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust
Cobalt Health
Avon & Wiltshire NHS Trust
E G Carter & Co Ltd
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS
Sodexo
Royal Berkshire NHSFT
Speller Metcalfe Ltd
Swindon Borough Council
The Chamwell Centre Charity
Willmott Dixon Construction
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Halo
NHS SBS

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