Consultant team picked for £60m space research mission

摘要

A consultant team has been appointed on a £60m project to build the world's deepest swimming pool, designed for spaceflight and human endurance research, in Essex. The Blue Abyss project - supported by organisations including Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as the UK's newest astronaut Tim Peake - involves building a 50m deep pool in Colchester that will simulate the microgravity of outer space and deep sea environments. Consultants appointed include Gardiner & Theobald as cost manager, Scott Brownrigg as architect, 3PM as project manager, Pell Frischmann as structural engineer and Hoare Lea as M&E engineer. The Blue Abyss pool will be far deeper than Nasa's 12m deep training pool in Houston. At 50m long, 40m wide and 50m deep, it will be the world's largest by volume.