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Dental practice M&E design for UK practices: electrical, ventilation, water, drainage, compressed air, suction and medical gas engineered together around your equipment list, so the trades do not clash on site and every surgery gets the services it needs. Each system is designed to the UK standard that applies to it, from BS 7671 to HTM 02-01.
The building services package for a dental practice, coordinated in one drawing set rather than three separate designs.
Load assessment from your actual equipment, distribution and circuits for chairs, X-ray, sterilisers and the compressor, designed to BS 7671 including its section on medical locations. Our electrical design page covers this in detail.
Backflow-protected water to dental units, purified water for sterilisers, Legionella-safe hot and cold systems under ACoP L8, amalgam-separated drainage, and compressed air and suction plant sized to the chair count.
Fresh air and extract rates for surgeries, a clean-to-dirty airflow in the decontamination room as HTM 01-05 recommends, cooling for equipment heat gains, and HTM 03-01 used as a reference for specialised ventilation.
Where you use piped oxygen or nitrous oxide for sedation, pipework, outlets, alarms and scavenging designed to HTM 02-01, with testing and certification before use. Many practices use cylinders instead; we advise which suits your treatments.
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Five stages from equipment list to commissioned systems.
Equipment list, growth plans and the existing building services reviewed; electrical load, water demand, air and suction demand and ventilation rates calculated.
Schematics, layouts and equipment schedules for every service, coordinated with the architectural and structural drawings so ducts and pipes do not hit beams.
Clashes resolved on paper and installation sequence agreed with the electrical, mechanical and plumbing contractors before work starts.
Specifications and schedules for tender, plus the test and certification requirements the installers must meet, such as BS 7671 certificates and medical gas testing.
First-fix inspections before walls close, witnessing of key tests and review of commissioning results, remotely and through site visits scheduled with you.
Common questions about M&E (MEP) engineering for UK dental practices.
Yes. Dental compressed air and suction for every practice, and piped oxygen and nitrous oxide with scavenging where your treatments need it, designed to HTM 02-01 with alarms, isolation and testing.
No. We are independent and design around the equipment you choose, using the manufacturers' technical data. If you have not chosen yet, we can compare options against your budget and building.
LED lighting with controls, heat recovery on ventilation where it pays back, variable-speed fans and controls that reduce ventilation outside opening hours, and correctly sized compressors and suction pumps rather than oversized ones.
Yes. We survey what is there, find the bottlenecks and design upgrades that can be phased so the practice keeps running. Typical jobs are extra circuits for new equipment, better surgery ventilation, a new decontamination room or services for an added surgery.
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