A dentist opening her first practice took the lease on a former bank on Clifton Street. The building had a sound supply but nothing else she could use. The practice needed three surgeries, a decontamination room, an X-ray room, a reception and a staff room, all built to the standards the regulator checks before a practice can open.
Working with the shopfitters over eight weeks, we installed a new distribution board, dedicated circuits for each dental chair and the compressor and suction plant, isolated supplies for the X-ray equipment with the warning signage and interlock the radiation protection adviser asked for, 48 LED panels across the practice, and emergency lighting on every escape route. Daniel ran the job and worked to the fit-out programme so the plumbers and the chair installers were never waiting on us.
The practice passed its pre-opening inspection first time. We now hold the annual emergency lighting test and the five-yearly inspection in the diary.