{"id":54427,"date":"2015-02-26T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f2c2ffe5e9c01f7921c242e4f565a97d"},"modified":"2015-02-26T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:37:21","slug":"news-story-new-officers-rooms-completed-in-10-million-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54427","title":{"rendered":"News story: New officers&#8217; rooms completed in \u00a310 million project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>An increase in the number of officers based at the Infantry Training Centre (<abbr title=\"Infantry Training Centre\">ITC<\/abbr>) at Catterick led to a requirement to build 2 new Single Living Accommodation (<abbr title=\"Single Living Accommodation\">SLA<\/abbr>) blocks. There are 114 rooms for junior officers in one block and 42 for senior officers in the second. Other facilities include a laundry room, drying room and snack preparation areas. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Reynolds, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (<abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr>) Project Manager, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> is here to provide the right buildings in the right places for defence, so I\u2019m really pleased to have been involved in this build. These modern accommodation blocks will improve the lives of officers living there and should therefore help them to provide top notch training to the next generation of infantry soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vimy Barracks panoramic view\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/36886\/A3902_Vimy_complete_panorama.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Vimy Barracks panoramic view (Crown copyright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel Angus Philp, Commanding Officer, Infantry Training Centre Support Battalion, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These blocks significantly improve the standard of accommodation for staff at the <abbr title=\"Infantry Training Centre\">ITC<\/abbr>. This is an important part of investing in our people and making the experience of working here enjoyable as well as rewarding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The contract was awarded to Debut Services Ltd, a joint venture between Lend Lease and Babcock, in December 2012 and work commenced on site in April 2013. The project required the construction of a new car park on the site of an existing annexe, which was demolished. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DIO has completed a \u00a310million project to provide 2 new accommodation blocks for officers at Vimy Barracks in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.<\/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\/54427"}],"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=54427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}