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News Release from: Atkins Design Environment & Engineering | Subject: Aberdeen Dental Centre
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2006
Work starts on new Aberdeen Dental
Centre
Work has begun on Aberdeen's new dental outreach centre, the latest important healthcare facility to receive the Atkins touch.
Work has begun on Aberdeen's new dental outreach centre, the latest important healthcare facility to receive the Atkins touch The leading design, engineering and project management consultancy has undertaken the full design of the £4 million centre, which is being refurbished from an existing building on the old Sick Children's Hospital site at Forresterhill
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 5 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Atkins, which has offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh and 450 Scotland staff, is at the forefront of healthcare facility design and delivery.
Its other projects include Dundee Dental School; Yorkhill Children's Hospital's new critical care unit; Ambulatory care and diagnostic units at Stobhill and Victoria Hospitals, Glasgow - a £200 million project; a specialist laboratory for NHS Glasgow at Gartnavel Hospital; a range of nursing homes for Erskine Care, the charity for ex-servicemen and women; and mental health facilities for NHS Lothian at Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
The new dental centre project is being is led by NHS Grampian in collaboration with the Dundee Dental School, NHS Education Scotland, supported by funding from the Scottish Executive.
The ambitious project will provide facilities to train blocks of eight students from Dundee Dental School.
It will also have four surgeries for dentists employed by NHS Grampian who will work exclusively on NHS patients.
It is expected that the new centre will provide around 24,000 additional appointments each year for NHS patients.
Daniel Stewart, Atkins lead architect on the project, says: "This is a major investment in the dental service and a very significant project for the north of Scotland".
"With the design work completed, we are working with the contractors Robertson Construction Eastern to ensure that the refurbishment work is completed as quickly as possible".
"The aim is to have the facility operational by summer, which is an ambitious goal but one that everyone is committed to achieving.".
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