Works commence on new Mullingar ambulance campus

Works have commenced on a new ambulance base located on the Delvin Road, Mullingar, due for completion in 2022.

The base will accommodate emergency services, administrative and staff accommodation facilities, and an enclosed ambulance parking areas.

Acting as the Project Supervisor Design Process and Fire Safety Consultants on this project, is the Mullingar based ORS building consultancy, while design of the building is by MCA Architects in Dublin.

The new facility will consist of a single-pitch ambulance building, comprising administration and staff accommodation, an enclosed ambulance parking area, a covered ambulance parking space, 16 car parking spaces, a boundary fence with swing gates to the north east, and solar heating panels to the roof.

The town’s ambulance centre us being relocated to the Delvin Road site to facilitate the construction of a major extension to the radiology department that will also house the hospital’s long awaited MRI scanner.