Dental Institute Training Facility
- Project: Dental Institute Training Facility, Lauriston Building
- Year of completion: 2008
- Client: Lothian NHS
- Project Value: £1.1m
- Architect: Kenneth Reid Architects
With the expansion of dental training centres being a high priority for the NHS, there was a requirement for a new facility in Edinburgh city centre. The Lauriston Building, an insitu concrete structure adjacent to the old Royal Infirmary, was the ideal location and a site of approximately 900 sq.m was chosen on the second floor.
Our involvement included the design of new light scoops sited on the concrete roof slab, as well as the support steel where the slab was cut to accommodate the scoops. Other structural works included advising on service hole locations in the floor slab, a support frame for the relocated water tank, and lintel details for openings in existing blockwork walls.
The new centre incorporates twenty dental chairs, which are used for clinics as well as training. There are also two training areas containing "dummy" heads, a teaching room, waiting and hospitality areas, storage rooms and staff facilities.
