Everything around the scanner needs to work.
Setting up a diagnostic centre means answering questions most owners are never warned about. Will the equipment physically fit through the building? Can an old slab carry the magnet? Is the power and earthing adequate? Who actually builds a lead door that does not leak? RADbuild answers all of it under one contract.
Site Selection & Feasibility
Assess a premises before you sign the lease, not after. We tell you whether the site can work at all.
- Candidate sites screened against the equipment's minimum room, height and clearance requirements
- Equipment ingress and rigging study — the full delivery route from gate to gantry position, including corridors, lifts, door widths and turning radii
- Identification of temporary structural openings, craneage or skating where the route is tight
- Adjacency and occupancy review for radiation safety
- Written go/no-go feasibility report per site
OEM Requirement Assessment & Equipment Finalisation
Understanding what a machine will demand of your building before you commit to buying it.
- Your equipment supplier's site planning specification reviewed and translated into a buildable, priced scope of work
- Equipment finalisation support — comparing what candidate systems would demand of your specific site in room size, structural load, power, cooling and access, so the purchase decision is made with the building in mind
- Identification of requirements that your site cannot meet as-is, and what it would cost to meet them
- Coordination with the equipment supplier's project engineers through to site-readiness sign-off
- Pre-owned and refurbished systems assessed for what the purchase does not include
Structural Assessment & Strengthening
Old buildings are usually workable — but only once someone has actually checked the numbers.
- Slab, beam and column capacity checked against magnet, gantry and ceiling-suspended loads
- Static load plus transit load along the equipment movement path
- Non-destructive testing where original drawings are unavailable
- Strengthening design and execution — jacketing, additional beams, slab strengthening, steel supports — so an existing structure can still be used
- Chiller platform design and fabrication, sited for pipe run, vibration isolation and service access
Imaging Room Design & Layout
Rooms planned around the specific machine going into them, not a generic template.
- Scan room, control room, technical and equipment areas
- Patient, staff and stretcher flow
- Your equipment supplier's site-planning specification translated into a buildable, priced scope of work
- Coordination drawings issued to every trade on site
Radiation Shielding & Lead Doors
A lead door is not a carpentry job. Most leakage we are called in to fix comes from doors built as though it were.
- Shielding calculation and layout to AERB requirements
- Lead lining to walls, lead glass viewing windows
- Engineered lead doors — correctly lapped lead sheet with no leakage at joints, frames and hinges sized for the real door weight, sealed door-to-frame and floor interfaces
- Post-installation leakage survey and certification
RF Shielding for MRI
Built for new installations and, in particular, for pre-owned and refurbished magnets — where the RF cage never comes with the machine.
- RF cage design, supply and installation
- RF door, waveguides, penetration panels and line filters
- Quench pipe route identification and installation — routed and sized correctly, discharging clear of air intakes, walkways and public areas
- Magnetic fringe field review
- RF leakage testing and certification on completion
Electrical Systems & Panel Fabrication
Sized against the equipment's real peak demand — not the average figure on the brochure.
- Connected and momentary peak load study
- Incoming supply and transformer adequacy, DG backup sizing, UPS for consoles and magnet monitoring
- LT panel and distribution board design and in-house fabrication
- Isolation transformers, cable sizing and voltage drop calculation
- Power quality — voltage fluctuation and harmonics
Earthing & Grounding
The single item owners most often struggle to find a competent vendor for. We do it ourselves.
- Soil resistivity testing and earth pit design
- Chemical earthing installed to the equipment's stated tolerance
- Separated equipment earth, body earth and neutral earthing
- Equipotential bonding across the imaging suite
- Handover with measured, certified values — not assurances
HVAC Design & Installation
Imaging equipment has tight temperature and humidity tolerances, and it fails expensively when they drift.
- Equipment heat load calculation and precision cooling selection
- Temperature and humidity held inside the equipment's stated tolerance
- Ducting, chiller and cooling water circuits, standby redundancy
- Quench venting and oxygen monitoring for MRI suites
- Fresh air, room pressurisation and filtration
Flooring, False Flooring & Interiors
The finished centre patients actually see, built to the tolerances the equipment needs underneath.
- Imaging room flooring — levelling tolerance for gantry alignment, load capacity, anti-static and conductive vinyl, seamless coved finish
- False flooring, cable trenches and trays for console and equipment cabling, with serviceable access panels
- Reception, waiting, changing, consultation and reporting areas
- Ceilings, partitions, joinery, finishes and signage
Project Management & Handover
One contract and one accountable partner, instead of a radiologist coordinating eight specialist vendors.
- Single point of responsibility from site selection through to handover
- Programme, budget and day-to-day site supervision
- AERB documentation support
- Pre-installation checks, site-readiness sign-off and snag closure before the equipment team arrives
Support across multiple modalities.
Planning guides by modality and system.
In-depth guidance on the parts of a radiology project that most often go wrong.
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