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In 2016, Willmott Dixon, MDA Consulting, Corporate Architecture, Salus, BSP Consulting, Couch Perry Wilkes, CPMG Architects and Derry Building Services started supporting the Matt Hampson Foundation’s Get Busy Living Centre.

Established by Matt Hampson, a former England Under-21 rugby player who suffered a life-changing injury during sport, it provides a place for beneficiaries to receive physical rehabilitation and spend time with their families in a supportive and well-equipped environment.

The eight partners completed construction of the Get Busy Living Centre and, with local supply chain partners, saved the Matt Hampson Foundation over £1 million by providing services/materials for free or cost price. At market value the build would have cost the Matt Hampson Foundation £367.77/ft2, but instead it cost them £163.38/ft2.

The relationship with the Matt Hampson Foundation started before the build and the partners worked collaboratively to design the specification for the Get Busy Living Centre build to Matt’s vision, ensuring it would be sustainable with low ongoing running costs, and have adequate space and accessibility for beneficiaries.

Get Busy Living Centre was built on a site of significant historic interest. Transforming it from a derelict hangar was important to the local community. It’s now a prominent, but sympathetic, feature in the local landscape with a structural frame based on the original hangar’s footprint and its exterior cladding is made from copper and timber so that it maintains the overall look and feel of the original building.

Get Busy Living Centre opened in December 2017, and now provides beneficiaries the chance of life-changing rehabilitation. Sports professionals’, local communities, physiotherapists, clinicians and trainers use the facility, as well as it now being home to the Matt Hampson Foundation’s headquarters.

Partner support has given them a better chance of long-term growth as they’re now able to use money they would have spent on the build on offering the life-changing services that injured sports people need to get their lives back.