A 70-bed purpose-built rehabilitation centre near Loughborough which aims to transform rehabilitation in the UK continues to take shape as smart black cladding is applied to the outside of the building pavilions, windows begin to be installed, and the energy centre is completed.
Inside the building, cables and pipes continue to be threaded along corridors and into rooms, and lightweight steel frame partitions denote where the internal walls will soon be constructed.
The £105million NRC project is due to open to patients next year and will be the first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre.
This specialist facility combines NHS care with research and innovation from our two academic partners – the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University – and is part of the New Hospital Programme.
The Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, already home to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre which opened in 2018, was carefully selected as the site for the NRC to bring together these two centres of excellence and drive rehabilitation standards both nationally and internationally.
The construction is being carried out by IHP, a joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine.
Drone footage shows the five main pavilions of the ground floor of the NRC – Facilities Management, the café and staff area, the innovation and education pavilion, patient zone and Research and Innovation pavilion, and the main gym and therapy activity and treatment spaces.
The latest footage also shows the progress of the first and second floors which will house the south-facing patient bedrooms overlooking the Leicestershire countryside, as well as some treatment and support spaces.
The design of the NRC uses modern methods of construction and will be highly energy efficient, with plans for the building to be carbon neutral to support the NHS ambition to be Carbon Net Zero by 2045.
Work continues to integrate the Smart Hospital design to make the NRC as digitally advanced as possible, with the capability to incorporate additional cutting-edge technology in the future.
Find out more about the construction of the NRC on the NRC website.