Bolton One
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Healthcare, leisure and research centre that combines a range of facilities in a single building
The building's three users have separate but interlinked spaces to enable shared facilities and access.
The leisure and healthcare facilities are accessed from a shared main entrance. The NHS Bolton walk-in facility, comprises of a series of multi-functional consulting/clinical rooms, waiting areas and support facilities, spread across three floors. The council leisure amenities include a 25m long eight lane public swimming pool with a 250 seat poolside seating area and a further 250 seat gallery at first floor level, hydrotherapy pool, fitness suite, aerobics studio and gym.
The University of Bolton’s Centre for Research for Health and Wellbeing has a separate entrance and includes teaching and seminar space, an external to internal running track, sports rehabilitation facilities, a sports hall and four-storey climbing wall.
Data
- Begun: Oct 2007
- Completed: Feb 2012
- Floor area: 13,250m2
- Total cost: £31M
- Procurement: NHS LIFT
- Address: University of Bolton, Deane Road Campus, Deane Road, Bolton, BL3 5AB, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: IBI Nightingale
- Project architect: Nick Prole
- Client: Eric Wright Construction
- Structural engineer: Booth King Partnership
- Mechanical services: JRB Environmental
- BREEM assessor: Clancy Consulting
- Main contractor: Eric Wright Construction
- CDM coordinator: Eric Wright Construction
- Quantity surveyor: Eric Wright Construction
Suppliers
- Sports hall floor: Junkers
- Climbing wall: Bendcrete
- Moveable swimming pool floor: FT Leisure
