Orchard Health Centre

Citycare

VALUE: £30k | LOCAL LABOUR: 80% | LOCAL SPEND: 100%

Citycare work hand in hand with public sector service providers and commissioners to deliver strategic estates solutions. Orchard Health Centre is one such facility that was built as part of the LIFT (the Local Improvement Finance Trust) programme, the most successful public infrastructure programme of its kind.

Integrating services has been at the heart of the NHS LIFT projects since 2001, and that’s where the need for a new, upgraded dental suite within the health centre derived from.

Citycare looked to Sewell Construction to convert an existing staff room into a new dental treatment room to increase capacity of the Dental Practice to provide additional, enhanced services to its patients.

Remodelling existing space

THE SOLUTION

Designed by Citycare, the solution was to remodel an existing staff room to create more space, which required stripping out of the existing mechanical and electrical services, kitchen units and flooring to make way for new specialist equipment for the dentistry.

Investigation works to locate and identify the underfloor heating enabled the team to create several core holes through the floor to allow them to get services such as power, hot and cold-water feeds, and ventilation into the required area in the room. Fire stopping to the penetrations was needed to ensure the building complied with building control..

CHALLENGES AND RESULTS

The challenges of this project included; the size of the working environment, which was only 12 sqm; it was a live environment so we often naaded to work out of hours. The team also had to deal with the impact of coronavirus which caused logistical challenges.

The efficient planning and collaboration between all parties meant that the Dental Practice was up and running in little over a month.

Through the reconfiguration of an existing space within the health centre, the dentist can now provide additional services including diagnostic and screening procedures, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury, all under one roof.