Local building earns construction award
October 31, 2006

By Ameerah Cetawayo, The Daily News

Newly constructed buildings speak to the changing landscape of architecture in southcentral Kentucky.

A Bowling Green building recently garnered an award for a Tennessee builder.

On Friday, Brindley Construction of Pulaski, Tenn., received the Associated Builders and Contractors Excellence in Construction award for construction of the new office for local dentist Dr. Eli Jackson in Chandler Park.

Brindley will now enter the building in the National ABC EIC award competition in December.

Kathy Pigg, vice president of Brindley Construction, said the company is gearing up for the national competition and plans to turn in its entries by mid-November.

Pigg described the Eli Jackson Dental Clinic as a 5,800-square-foot dental office with state-of-the-art dental equipment and design.

There is no wasted space in the building, according to Pigg.

The lobby and reception area consists of an octagon-shaped room 40 feet across with a vaulted ceiling topped by a circular clerestory. And there are plenty of high-tech luxuries in the office.

Jackson uses Hitcents.com's EyeOn technology, which allows him to turn on or off all lights, control temperature and monitor all surveillance cameras from in-office computers or from his home computer.

This system will also call the doctor's cell phone if a fire or security alarm activates or a water leak occurs. The building also contains a sterilization room, employee lounge and laundry room.

There are computer stations for patient use and refreshment areas for patients.

Each operating room is equipped with a 42-inch plasma monitor fully integrated with a computer control allowing the doctor to show patient X-rays and pictures from inside the patient's mouth as he's working.

When not used by physicians, the plasma screen can be remote controlled by the patient for movies, games or cable programming.

Jackson, along with his new associate Dr. Brad Graham, was previously in the Bowling Green Professional Arts Building on U.S. 31-W By-Pass.

“It's something that we had a vision about for a long time,” Jackson said. “It's taken us a few years to bring all the pieces of the puzzle together, but we're really are all about making things comfortable for the patient.”

The dentists moved into their new building Oct. 6.

Jackson said his new building coincides with his company's state-of-the-art service.

“We're just proud to be able to offer that type of dentistry to people in the surrounding counties,” Jackson said. “Since I bought the office 13 years ago, it’s been a 10-fold growth.”