Works starts on Western Isles dental centre

10 May, 2010

Due for completion by the end of the year is this £4.5 million dental teaching and treatment centre in Stornoway.

Work has begun on a new £4.7 million dental teaching and treatment centre in Stornoway, which is due for completion in December 2010. The design aims to reduce carbon footprint through passive measures and natural ventilation and daylighting to all occupied rooms. High levels of insulation and the glazing specification will reduce heat loss in Winter and heat gain during the Summer. Solar thermal panels will provide domestic hot water.

The centre will include seven general dental surgeries and five modern training surgeries. It will help teach dental students on outreach from Aberdeen University Dental School and support new graduates in the first post-qualification year. Links with the University for the Highlands & Islands will allow oral health therapists to be trained in the centre.

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