Employment charter signed by dental hospital team

A University of Birmingham undergraduate will be part of the team building facilities for future generations when he starts his summer placement with Galliford Try, who are building the new Birmingham Dental Hospital & School of Dentistry. Councillor Tahir Ali, Cabinet Member for Development, Jobs and Skills at Birmingham City Council met the construction team, including civil engineering student Awaes Ali, on the site at Pebble Mill, to witness the signing of an Employment Charter by main contractor Galliford Try. The Charter, part of the Council's Building Jobs in Greater Birmingham strategy, represents a commitment by contractor Galliford Try to working in partnership with the Council's Employment Access Team and support unemployed Birmingham residents into the construction opportunities generated by the project. The project has already created over 700 working weeks for previously unemployed individuals and looks well set to even outstrip the agreed target set by the charter - 1260 for the course of the 20-month construction period. The development of the 1.23-hectare (3.05-acre) site will see a new four-storey dental hospital and school of dentistry constructed, with a build cost of £34m. Totalling 15,465 sqm, it will house a range of services for the public including walk-in emergency dental care, Restorative, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry. The project, by Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust and the University of Birmingham, BaS LIFT (delivered through private sector partner Prime plc and the design team from One Creative Environments Ltd), Calthorpe Estates and Galliford Try, and will deliver the same range of services currently provided at the St Chad's Queensway site.