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Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
£2.2m
Knights Brown was appointed to carry out the design and construction of a lightweight steel frame structure to house garages, training rooms and general facilities including an 8m high climbing wall, earth embankment and a rock revetment for rescue practice.
The main entrance is a controlled glazed section of curtain walling, which gives access directly into the training facility and when required, the coastguard rescue station. There are full height garage doors to the south elevation, which allow both training and rescue vehicles clear access away from the building. The remaining elevations have a mixture of exit doors and windows, the west of the building is provided with a linked area of hard standing, for collecting equipment and washing down vehicles.
A dedicated access route leads from the building to the training wall, where vehicles can drive to the top and unload equipment. The training wall is an open reinforced concrete structure and above ground, acts as a retaining structure. Rock armour has been installed to the west side of the slope, to simulate coastal defences.
