{"id":35565,"date":"2013-11-22T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f7cfd3362c3b7a9dfa159d21e129caa4"},"modified":"2013-11-22T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:15:58","slug":"news-story-major-military-accommodation-upgrade-marks-project-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35565","title":{"rendered":"News story: Major military accommodation upgrade marks project milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The completion of the 20,000th bed space was marked by the presentation of a commemorative plaque to Defence Infrastructure Organisation<\/a> (DIO<\/abbr>) Director of Project and Programme Delivery Air Vice-Marshal Elaine West, who attended a special ceremony at the Lichfield site.<\/p>\n

The landmark bed space was provided through Project SLAM<\/abbr><\/a> (Single Living Accommodation Modernisation), an extensive upgrade of bed spaces, common areas and ancillary facilities for service personnel. <\/p>\n

The project<\/a>, which is one of the largest of its type in the UK, is delivered by the DIO<\/abbr> in partnership with Debut Services Limited, a consortium led by Lend Lease and Babcock Support Services.<\/p>\n

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Air Vice-Marshal Elaine West (2nd from left) outside the new accommodation facilities at Whittington Barracks [Picture: Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project SLAM<\/abbr> has seen the provision of 6 new state-of-the-art single living accommodation blocks at DMS<\/abbr> Whittington<\/a>, with 736 bed spaces \u2013 including the 20,000th \u2013 for military medical staff and trainees.<\/p>\n

Project SLAM<\/abbr> supports the wider redevelopment of the Lichfield site as part of the Midlands Medical Accommodation project, a programme of works to regenerate the former Whittington Barracks site to accommodate the DMS<\/abbr> UK headquarters.<\/p>\n

Air Vice-Marshal West said:<\/p>\n

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I was delighted to be invited to celebrate this major milestone in SLAM<\/abbr> delivery as we continue to deliver high quality accommodation for our service personnel, which in many cases is long overdue.<\/p>\n

That so many new SLAM<\/abbr> bed spaces are now in existence, with more in construction, is tremendous, and nothing short of what our people deserve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Members of the project team outside the new accommodation facilities at Whittington Barracks [Picture: Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul Francis, SLAM<\/abbr> Project Principal Manager, said:<\/p>\n

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DIO<\/abbr>\u2019s priority is to support the Armed Forces as they prepare for operations and one of the ways we can do this is through providing the best possible living accommodation.<\/p>\n

This is an important milestone in this extensive upgrade programme, the largest of its type in the UK, and demonstrates excellent partnership working between DIO<\/abbr> and Debut Services Limited.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Neil Martin, Lend Lease\u2019s Managing Director of Project Management and Construction, said:<\/p>\n

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During the last 10 years Project SLAM<\/abbr> has dramatically raised the bar for living accommodation for Britain\u2019s servicemen and women and we are delighted to have completed the 20,000th bed space.<\/p>\n

We look forward to continuing to work with the DIO<\/abbr> in the years ahead to further improve the built environment in which our Armed Forces live and work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military personnel have benefited from improved accommodation under a major upgrade project at Defence Medical Services (DMS) Whittington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}