Loughborough University in Leicestershire is planning a new Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel – the first of its kind in the UK.
The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel will have 44 four-star standard bedrooms.
The bedrooms will be designed for maximum flexibility with large doorways and moveable furniture. They will include wet rooms accessible for any elite athlete.
In addition, twenty rooms will have the capacity to adjust to climatic altitude conditions up to 5000mt, enabling athletes to ‘sleep high’ and ‘train low’ without the need to leave the country, helping to enhance performance capability.
Eight bedrooms will be wheelchair accessible.
The hotel will be designed to offer an ideal environment for team training camps for all athletes both able-bodied and those with a disability.
The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel will also support the complex dietary requirements of athletes. A specialist nutrition room will be available capable of serving up to 150 covers per sitting to allow whole team training camps to be accommodated. The nutrition room and kitchen will also educate athletes in nutrition showing them how to prepare meals and stay healthy.
A specifically designed recovery room will also feature allowing both guests and resident athletes to recover between and after training sessions.
The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel coupled with the sporting facilities already on campus at Loughborough University will be unparalleled in the UK.
Whilst The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel is designed with the top athlete in mind, others guests will also be able to take advantage of the facilities on offer.
The Elite Athlete Centre and Hotel is due for completion in September 2018.
Details: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/student-village/each/