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Tell Us What the Practice Will Do
Surgery, imaging, isolation, boarding and dental each change the building in a different way.
The space, and which services the practice will offer now and later. Those two decide almost everything about the buildout.
What each service adds
None of these can be added cheaply afterwards.
- Surgery: pressure relationships, scavenging, cleanable finishes.
- Imaging: physicist-designed shielding, structure, power.
- Isolation: negative pressure and dedicated exhaust outside.
- Boarding: structural sound isolation, drainage, air changes.
- Dental: additional exhaust, water and equipment rough-in.
And what you will add later
Practices grow into services. Providing electrical capacity and an exhaust route during the original buildout costs very little and saves an expensive, disruptive project in a clinic that is seeing patients.
Ask what the practice intends in five years, not just what it opens with.
The two that constrain the space
Isolation and boarding both need exhaust to outside, and boarding needs neighbors who will tolerate it.
Those two are why some tenancies simply cannot be full-service practices, and it is worth knowing which before a lease is signed.
FAQ
Common questions
- Why does the services list matter first?
- Each service changes the structure, the mechanical design or both.
- Which services constrain the space most?
- Isolation and boarding, both of which need exhaust to outside.
- Should we plan for services we might add?
- Rough in electrical capacity and an exhaust route. It is cheap now.
- Can imaging be added later?
- At real cost — shielding, structure and power in a working clinic.
Next step
Find out what is actually wrong with it.
An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.