Programming matters
In occupied premises, the construction programme needs to be considered alongside how the business uses its space. The order of activities and the availability of work areas are practical questions to resolve with the client.
QUALITY DENTAL / COMMERCIAL REFURBISHMENT
Four practices.
One main contractor.
A refurbished practice, while patients can still attend. Quality Dental appointed Atlas directly to deliver complete refurbishments at Albion Street, Crossways, Horsham and Shoreham. All four remained operational throughout the works.
Atlas acted as main contractor and coordinated all construction trades. Work took place during normal working hours at each practice.
ClientQuality Dental
AppointmentDirect to Atlas
Atlas’s roleMain contractor
Business continuityAll four remained operational
THE APPOINTMENT
A complete refurbishment.
A clear construction responsibility.
For a business commissioning building work, bringing every construction trade together is a substantial part of the job. At these four practices, that responsibility sat with Atlas as main contractor.
Quality Dental appointed Atlas directly for the complete refurbishments. Atlas coordinated all construction trades, bringing the work together under its main contractor role.
The four-practice relationship demonstrates repeat-client experience in commercial refurbishment.
WORKING IN OPERATIONAL PREMISES
The building work happens.
The business keeps operating.
All four practices remained operational throughout, with works undertaken during normal working hours. That is an important distinction for a client whose premises must serve customers as well as accommodate construction.
Trades need coordination
Construction trades depend on one another’s work. Coordinating their sequence and interfaces is part of the main contractor’s responsibility, rather than leaving the client to organise separate construction teams.
Operating needs stay visible
Access, working arrangements and communication need attention when a business continues to operate.
THE FOUR PRACTICES
One client. Four complete refurbishments.
01 / QUALITY DENTAL
Albion Street
Complete practice refurbishment, with Atlas appointed directly as main contractor.
The practice remained operational throughout the works, undertaken during normal working hours.
Albion Street is an NHS dental practice.
02 / QUALITY DENTAL
Crossways
Complete practice refurbishment, with Atlas appointed directly as main contractor.
The practice remained operational throughout the works, undertaken during normal working hours.
03 / QUALITY DENTAL
Horsham
Complete practice refurbishment, with Atlas appointed directly as main contractor.
The practice remained operational throughout the works, undertaken during normal working hours.
04 / QUALITY DENTAL
Shoreham
Complete practice refurbishment, with Atlas appointed directly as main contractor.
The practice remained operational throughout the works, undertaken during normal working hours.
PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHS
A closer look at the work.
The Horsham reception/lobby is shown below. The associated refurbishment of the flat above Crossways Dental follows separately from the practice photograph.
Associated works · Flat above Crossways Dental
These photographs show the flat refurbishment undertaken as part of the Quality Dental appointment. They show residential rooms above the practice, separately from the dental practice areas.
RELEVANT BEYOND DENTISTRY
Construction experience for a business that cannot simply close.
If you are considering a commercial refurbishment, you need to know who will take responsibility for the construction and how it will sit alongside your operation.
These appointments demonstrate Atlas’s completed main contractor refurbishment experience for a repeat commercial client, in premises that remained operational.
That experience is relevant to discussions about other occupied commercial premises. Each office, retail or other fit-out still needs its own agreed specification, programme and operating arrangements.
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Complete refurbishments.
Practices kept operational.
Atlas delivered the complete refurbishments at all four practices as main contractor, coordinating all construction trades. The practices remained operational throughout the works, which took place during normal working hours.