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see transposed to bigger projects . Cundall ’ s healthcare team have carried this through on projects like the Banbridge Health and Care Centre in Northern Ireland . The four-storey multipurpose centre – which provides physical and mental daycare services , ICT and primary care facilities , GP services , dental labs , OT and physiotherapy – was designed to achieve a BREEAM excellent rating and , among an array of accolades , was named RIBA National Award winner in 2016 .
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“ We ’ re working with South London Health partnerships on the soon to be completed Tessa Jowell Health Centre , in Dulwich ,” reveals Maddocks .” We won that project five years ago but it ’ s been more than a decade in the making . We ’ ve taken learnings from previous projects to deliver a BREEAM excellent building with features including night time ventilation and automatically controlled blinds and windows with daylight sensing systems . It ’ s vital for communities to have a facility that brings together a range of primary care services in one building that ’ s operational for 18 hours each day .”
“ Willmott Dixon came on board as the main contractor and we monitored their work to ensure we could find solutions together to meet the challenges . This is where frameworks can improve healthcare construction . We worked much closer with a major contractor here than we would under the traditional procurement process , to examine the impact on the civil , structural , and the MEP . We brainstorm ideas early on to deliver the best value for the client by working to the old adage :
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