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News Release from: Chalcroft Construction | Subject: High-specification new builds and refurbishment
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
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Healthy outlook for new centre
Chalcroft Construction, who specialise in high-specification new builds and refurbishment, has completed the site boundary of the new Carole Brown Health Centre.
A major milestone has been reached in a project to construct a new GBP2.2m health centre that will improve facilities in the Norfolk village of Dersingham King's Lynn firm Chalcroft Construction, which has a growing reputation for delivering high-specification buildings for the health and food manufacturing sectors, has now completed the site boundary of the new Carole Brown Health Centre, being built to replace an existing centre
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The timber frame is set to be installed for the main buildings of the centre, with work being carried out to existing single-storey barns that will be converted to a Category A specification for health-related uses.
Graham Dickerson, managing partner at the health centre, commented: "The original health centre was built to cater for a population of 4,000, although that has now risen to 6,000".
"We find that although we put on a range of services, the accommodation is somewhat cramped".
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"The new centre will have much more up-to-date facilities, we will not have to shoehorn services in and there will be ample parking spaces.
We will have room to help train the doctors and nurses of tomorrow to ensure that the NHS has fully-qualified staff for the future".
"It is fantastic that the local residents to be able to see the building rising from the ground".
The original Carole Brown Health Centre is named after a much-loved doctor who was instrumental in establishing a family planning clinic and developing a patients' participation group at the Dersingham surgery.
Sadly, Carole died from colon cancer in September, 2003 but the local community ensured that the health centre was renamed in her honour.
The new centre is being built using timber frame construction with a brick-facing under a pantiled roof and, together with the conversion of the nearby barns, will provide a fantastic facility for the area.
The health centre will feature a reception and waiting area, seven consulting rooms, two nurse treatment rooms, an observation room, admin offices, and an interview room.
There's also a chiropody and physiotherapy room, dispensary, blood-testing room, training and staff rooms, and utility rooms.
Andrew Hardy, from Chalcroft, commented: "We specialise in high-specification new builds and refurbishment, so we know that when the new centre opens, it will be a fantastic setting for health professionals and patients alike".
The road junction of Manor Road and Church Lane is being reconfigured to allow safe pedestrian and vehicular access.
Chalcroft is the principal contractor on the 42-week project, which is being carried out on behalf of developer Pigeon Holdings Limited.
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