Perform Better’s design team were brought in at an early stage to help plan some of the bespoke features that the Club wanted to include in the facility.

The Bearwood Park site, set over almost 120 acres, hosts three full-size first-team pitches (with the same dimensions as the pitch at the Madejski Stadium), a floodlit artificial 3G pitch, goalkeeping practice area, first-team building and Academy facility. The new training ground, which is five miles from the Madjeski, is...