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In a clinic, the services
arrive at a chair.
Not at a desk.

A medical or dental fit-out is not an office fit-out with better cabinets. Water, drainage, suction, air and power all have to land within inches of where a chair will stand, the surfaces have to be cleanable rather than just hard-wearing, and the practice usually has to keep seeing patients while it is built. We deliver clinical fit-outs across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

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A clinical fit-out, illustrated

Twelve illustrations drawn for this guide, covering the plan, the services, the plant, the finishes and how the work is phased around a practice. Tap any image to see it larger.

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ILLUSTRATION: a clinic plan with separate patient and staff routes.

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ILLUSTRATION: operatory services stubbed at the chair position.

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ILLUSTRATION: the suction and compressed-air plant.

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ILLUSTRATION: a shielded wall build-up at an imaging room.

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ILLUSTRATION: services coordinated above a suspended ceiling.

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ILLUSTRATION: seamless flooring coved up the wall.

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ILLUSTRATION: instrument processing laid out as a one-way run.

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ILLUSTRATION: clinical cabinetry with a seamless worktop.

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ILLUSTRATION: even, shadow-free light over the treatment position.

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ILLUSTRATION: clear turning space beside the treatment chair.

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ILLUSTRATION: a reception counter with an accessible section.

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ILLUSTRATION: half the practice building, half still treating.

Every image on this page is an ILLUSTRATION created for this guide. None is a photograph, and none represents a completed Elbaz Construction project. We do not hold medical or dental project photography, and we have not used residential or stock imagery in its place. The disclosure appears in each caption, in the alt text, and in the description stored with each image in the media library.

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The journey

Six stages, first walk-through to first patient.

Clinical fit-outs go wrong in two places, and neither is the finishes. Either the services were set out for a room rather than for the exact chair position and equipment that is actually being installed, or the programme assumed the practice could simply close. This page walks the sequence in the order it happens, starting with how you actually practise - because that decides the plan long before any drawing does.

Use the stage markers to jump straight to what you care about. Nothing here is a sales pitch - it is the sequence we actually follow.

Stage 01 · Assess

What kind of project this actually is

Four situations, and they lead to genuinely different projects - different programme, different approval route, different disruption.

A new space, fitted out from shell

The cleanest version of this work, and the one with the most freedom. Nothing has to be worked around, so the plan can be organised properly from the start: patient route, staff route, where the plant goes and where the noise ends up. The constraint is usually the lease calendar rather than the building.

  • The plan can be organised around how you practise, not around what exists
  • Patient and staff routes are separated from the first sketch
  • Plant location is chosen for noise and access rather than left over
  • Landlord fit-out conditions usually govern more than you expect
  • The lease start date is frequently the real programme driver
Illustration of a clinic plan with separate public and staff circulation routes (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: a clinic plan with separate patient and staff circulation.

Adding rooms to a working practice

The most common brief, and the most demanding to programme. You keep seeing patients while the building work happens alongside, which means temporary partitions, dust and noise control, protected routes and a great deal of out-of-hours work. It is entirely doable and it has to be planned rather than absorbed.

  • Full-height temporary partitions, not screens
  • Dust and noise control planned around clinical hours
  • Patient routes and exits stay clear and obvious throughout
  • Existing plant may need upgrading to serve the extra rooms
  • Most of the work happens outside your treating hours
Illustration of a clinic divided by a temporary dust partition with one half in use and one half under construction (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: one half of a clinic under construction behind a dust partition while the other half stays in use.

Modernising a dated practice

Older practices often work perfectly well in plan but have finishes and cabinetry that are no longer cleanable, lighting that is tiring to work under, and services that were adapted so many times nobody is quite sure what runs where. Modernising is usually about surfaces, light and sorting out the services behind them.

  • Worn or damaged surfaces stop being properly cleanable
  • Lighting has a genuine effect on how tiring a day is
  • Older services are frequently adapted rather than documented
  • Cabinetry is where dated practices show their age first
  • Plan changes may be modest even when the work is not
Illustration of clinical cabinetry with a seamless worktop, integrated sink and wipeable faces (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: clinical cabinetry with a seamless worktop and integrated sink.

Adding imaging or a new modality

Installing imaging equipment brings requirements the rest of a fit-out does not: shielding designed by a qualified specialist, structural capacity for heavier units, dedicated power, and registration of the equipment as your jurisdiction requires. The equipment manufacturer's own installation requirements drive much of it.

  • Shielding is designed by a qualified specialist, not assumed
  • The manufacturer's installation requirements drive the room
  • Heavier equipment can bring a structural question with it
  • Dedicated power and often dedicated circuits are required
  • Registration and inspection of the equipment follow their own process
Illustration of a shielded wall build-up behind gypsum board at an imaging room (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: a shielded wall build-up behind gypsum board at an imaging room.

Stage 02 · Plan

The four decisions that set the fit-out

These decide the plan, the services and how disruptive the build is going to be. Finishes come after all four.

How people move through it

A clinic plan is really two overlapping plans: the route a patient takes from the door to a chair and back out, and the route staff take between rooms, sterilisation and the back of house. Where those two collapse into a single corridor, the practice feels cramped and private conversations happen in public.

  • A patient route and a staff route that do not fight each other
  • Sterilisation sits where staff reach it without crossing the public area
  • Where patients wait affects how busy the practice feels
  • Doors and sightlines decide what is visible from the waiting area
  • Getting equipment in and out later is worth designing for now
Illustration of a clinic plan with separate public and staff circulation routes (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: a clinic plan with a public corridor and a separate staff corridor.

Where the services land

This is the difference between a clinical fit-out and an office one. Water, drainage, suction, compressed air and power all terminate at the position of a specific piece of equipment, set out from the manufacturer's template rather than from the middle of the room. Getting it wrong means opening a finished floor.

  • Set out from the equipment template, not from the room
  • Suction and compressed air are usually run back to shared plant
  • Drainage falls have to work from the chair position outward
  • Confirm the actual model being installed before rough-in
  • A late equipment change is the most expensive change on the job
Illustration of a dental operatory at rough-in with services stubbed at the chair position (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: an operatory at rough-in with services stubbed at the chair position.

What the surfaces have to do

Clinical surfaces are specified to be wiped down repeatedly with the products your practice actually uses. That usually means non-porous materials, sealed or welded joints, and a coved junction where the floor meets the wall so there is no open seam at the base. Domestic finishes fail at the joints long before they fail in the field.

  • Non-porous surfaces with sealed or welded joints
  • A coved floor-to-wall junction leaves no open seam at the base
  • Materials checked against the cleaning products you actually use
  • Cabinetry specified to be wiped rather than to look domestic
  • Junctions and edges fail first, so they are detailed first
Illustration of a seamless floor covering coved continuously up the wall with no gap at the base (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: a seamless floor covering coved continuously up the wall.

Accessibility and privacy

Accessibility shapes the plan: the route in, door widths, clear floor space beside the chair, the reception counter and the accessible toilet. Privacy is the other half - what can be overheard at reception and between rooms is decided by partition build-ups and sightlines, and neither can be retrofitted cheaply.

  • Clear floor space beside the chair is designed, not found
  • Reception needs a section usable from a wheelchair
  • The accessible route runs from the parking space to the room
  • Acoustic privacy comes from partition build-up, not from a door
  • Sightlines from the waiting area are a design decision
Illustration of an accessible treatment room plan showing the clear turning space beside the chair (illustration)

ILLUSTRATION: an accessible treatment room plan showing clear turning space beside the chair.

Every image on this page is an illustration created for this guide. We do not hold photography of a completed medical or dental project, and we are not going to show you a residential room and call it a clinic. Each caption, each alt text and each media description says the image is an illustration.

Stage 03 · Coordinate

Approvals, equipment vendors and who has to agree

Clinical fit-outs carry more parties than a normal commercial job: the building department, sometimes a health agency, your landlord, your equipment suppliers and occasionally a specialist for shielding.

How you actually work

Before any layout, we go through how patients arrive, how staff move, what happens between appointments and where the bottlenecks are today. The plan follows that rather than a generic template.

The exact models, early

Every chair, cabinet, imaging unit and sterilizer is scheduled with its make and model, because the services are set out from the manufacturer template rather than from the room.

Your suppliers and our trades

Equipment suppliers have their own requirements, lead times and installation crews. Coordinating them with the trades is a scheduling job that starts long before anyone is on site.

Where imaging is involved

Where imaging equipment is installed, the shielding is designed by a qualified specialist for the specific equipment and room, and the installation follows that design. We build to it; we do not estimate it.

Which approvals apply to you

Some clinical facility types carry review by a state health agency in addition to the building permit; many private practices do not. Which applies depends on the type of practice and what you are doing, and it is confirmed for you rather than assumed.

What the building allows

Commercial leases frequently govern working hours, noise, waste routes, roof access for plant and after-hours building access - all of which shape a clinical programme heavily.

Filed as one coordinated set

Architectural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing information is submitted as one set to your municipality, or the county where unincorporated. Review comments are answered and the set resubmitted.

During construction, not after

Where the practice keeps operating, how dust and air are managed during the works is planned in advance and agreed with you, because it affects partitions, ventilation and the working hours.

Around your appointment book

The sequence is built around your clinical hours from the start. On a working practice that usually means evenings, weekends and a longer overall calendar.

Ordered before demolition

Cabinetry, chairs, imaging equipment and specialist flooring all carry lead times. Nothing is demolished until what replaces it is confirmed and on order.

Requirements, review times and inspection sequences are set by your local building department, and they differ across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach and between the municipalities inside them. Nothing here is a guaranteed timeline or an assurance of approval - we confirm what your address actually requires once we know it.

Stage 04 · Build

Building around a practice that is still open

The order below assumes you are still seeing patients. Where the space is empty, the same sequence runs faster and without the partitions.

Separation

Before anything is opened

Full-height temporary partitions seal the work area from the clinical area, with protected routes for patients and staff, and clear signage for exits. Screens are not partitions.

Quality check · Work area sealed floor to structure before demolition

Illustration of a clinic divided by a temporary dust partition with one half in use and one half under construction (illustration)

Strip out

Back to what stays

Finishes, cabinetry and any partitions in scope come out. In an older practice this is where undocumented service runs are found, and you hear about them the same day.

Quality check · What is found is reported the same day

Illustration of a clinic divided by a temporary dust partition with one half in use and one half under construction (illustration)

Services rough-in

Set out from the equipment

Water, drainage, suction, air and electrical are run and terminated at the exact positions from the equipment schedule. This is the last moment anything moves without opening a finished floor.

Quality check · Positions checked against the equipment template

Illustration of a dental operatory at rough-in with services stubbed at the chair position (illustration)

Plant

Suction, air and mechanical

The suction and compressed-air plant is installed and piped back to the rooms, sited for noise, heat and access for servicing rather than wherever there was space.

Quality check · Plant sited for noise and serviceability

Illustration of a plant room with suction and compressed-air equipment serving treatment rooms (illustration)

Shielding

Where imaging is in scope

Shielding is installed to the specialist design before any board goes on, and its extent is recorded while it is still visible.

Quality check · Shielding installed to the specialist design and recorded

Illustration of a shielded wall build-up behind gypsum board at an imaging room (illustration)

Ceiling coordination

Everything above the grid

Ductwork, pipework, containment and lighting are coordinated and installed in the ceiling void in the right order, so nothing has to be undone to fit something else in.

Quality check · Services coordinated before the grid goes up

Illustration of coordinated ductwork, pipework and containment in the void above a suspended ceiling (illustration)

Board and finishes

Closing up

Partitions are closed, surfaces prepared and the seamless flooring installed with its coved junction. This is where cleanability is either achieved or quietly lost.

Quality check · Coved junctions continuous with no open seams

Illustration of a seamless floor covering coved continuously up the wall with no gap at the base (illustration)

Cabinetry

Millwork and worktops

Clinical cabinetry is installed and the seamless worktops and integrated sinks are set. Setting out is taken from the installed cabinetry rather than from the drawing.

Quality check · Worktops templated from the installed cabinetry

Illustration of clinical cabinetry with a seamless worktop, integrated sink and wipeable faces (illustration)

Equipment installation

Your suppliers on site

Chairs, imaging units and sterilizers are installed by your suppliers and connected to the services. This is a coordination week more than a construction one.

Quality check · Every service connection made and tested

Illustration of a sterilisation room laid out as a one-way run from receiving sink to clean storage (illustration)

Commissioning and handover

Before the first patient

Final inspections, the permit closed out, plant commissioned, a full clean, and a walkthrough with you room by room before anyone is booked in.

Quality check · Permit closed and plant commissioned before opening

Illustration of a reception counter with a lower accessible section and a privacy screen to the waiting area (illustration)

Stage 05 · Inspect

The three decisions people find hardest

Balanced both ways. What is right depends on your practice, your lease and how many days you could genuinely close.

Stay open

Keep treating throughout

Illustration of a clinic divided by a temporary dust partition with one half in use and one half under construction (illustration)
How
The practice is divided by full-height temporary partitions and the work runs in phases, mostly outside clinical hours.
Benefits
No lost revenue and no patients sent elsewhere, which for an established practice is usually the deciding factor.
Limits
A materially longer programme, a premium for out-of-hours work, and dust, noise and disruption you will notice.
Upkeep
You live alongside a construction site for longer.
In South Florida
Building rules on after-hours access frequently constrain when the noisy work can happen.

Close for the works

Faster and cheaper

Illustration of a clinic plan with separate public and staff circulation routes (illustration)
How
The practice closes and the work runs continuously.
Benefits
Considerably quicker and cheaper, and a better result because nothing is rushed to reopen each morning.
Limits
Lost revenue for the period, and patients have to be managed or referred.
Upkeep
One disruption, then done.
In South Florida
Easiest to schedule against a genuine seasonal lull in your book.

Which oneCount the lost revenue against the out-of-hours premium and the extra weeks honestly. Closing almost always produces a better fit-out for less money - so if you can close even for a fortnight, it is usually worth it. If you cannot, phasing works, and it is planned rather than improvised.

Equipment first

What we recommend

Illustration of a dental operatory at rough-in with services stubbed at the chair position (illustration)
How
Chairs, cabinetry and imaging are selected and scheduled before the services are designed.
Benefits
Services are set out from the manufacturer template, so everything lands where it must. No guesswork and no late surprises.
Limits
Requires you to commit to equipment earlier than feels comfortable.
Upkeep
None - it simply works.
In South Florida
Lead times on clinical equipment make early decisions doubly useful.

Design first

Common, and risky

Illustration of coordinated ductwork, pipework and containment in the void above a suspended ceiling (illustration)
How
The layout is designed generically and the equipment is chosen later to fit it.
Benefits
Lets you start design sooner and keeps options open longer.
Limits
Service positions become assumptions. A different chair or unit than assumed means opening a finished floor or wall to move them.
Upkeep
Nothing, if the assumptions held. Expensive if they did not.
In South Florida
The risk is the same everywhere; the cost of opening a slab is not trivial.

Which oneChoose the equipment first. It is the single highest-value decision on a clinical fit-out, because every service position derives from it - and the cost of being wrong is opening finished work rather than moving a line on a drawing.

Seamless sheet

No joints to fail

Illustration of a seamless floor covering coved continuously up the wall with no gap at the base (illustration)
How
Sheet material with welded seams, coved continuously up the wall.
Benefits
Effectively no joints, and no open seam at the base of the wall. It is what most clinical spaces use.
Limits
Needs a very flat, dry subfloor and a skilled installer. Damage is repaired by patching rather than swapping a unit.
Upkeep
Follow the manufacturer regime; the welded seams are the thing to keep an eye on.
In South Florida
Slab moisture has to be tested before bonding, exactly as with any other bonded floor.

Tile

Hard-wearing, but jointed

Illustration of clinical cabinetry with a seamless worktop, integrated sink and wipeable faces (illustration)
How
Tile with grouted joints and a coved skirting detail where required.
Benefits
Extremely hard-wearing, and a damaged tile can be replaced individually.
Limits
Grout joints are the weak point - they are porous, they stain, and there are a great many of them.
Upkeep
Grout needs maintaining and eventually replacing.
In South Florida
Common in waiting areas and back of house where the clinical requirement is lower.

Which oneSheet flooring in treatment and processing rooms, where seams are the enemy. Tile is entirely reasonable in reception, corridors and back of house - which is often the right combination rather than choosing one for the whole suite.

What moves the cost and the calendar

Tick whatever applies. This will not produce a price - the equipment schedule and the phasing move it more than the finishes do - but it will show which parts carry the cost and the calendar.

What this points to

We do not publish figures for this work, because the same scope can differ several-fold once the existing conditions are visible. You get a real, itemised number after a site visit, in writing.

Stage 06 · Open

What a clinical fit-out is actually like

A short sequence assembled from the illustrations on this page, plus what the weeks actually involve. If you are staying open, this is the part worth reading twice.

How long it runs

A fit-out of an empty unit runs in weeks. The same scope around a working practice runs considerably longer, because the noisy work happens outside clinical hours. We will give you both numbers.

The noisy work

Demolition, coring and any slab work. On a working practice these are scheduled outside your treating hours, which is the main reason the calendar stretches.

Dust

Full-height partitions go up before anything is opened, and how air is managed during the works is agreed with you in advance rather than improvised.

Your patients

They keep coming in. Routes stay clear, exits stay obvious, and the working area stays visibly separated from the clinical one.

Equipment weeks

When your suppliers install chairs and imaging, the site becomes a coordination exercise. Those dates are frequently fixed by the supplier rather than by us.

Surprises

Older practices have services that were adapted repeatedly and rarely documented. When we find something, you hear it the same day with what it means.

Inspections

Where the scope is permitted, rough-in is inspected before anything is closed up, and there are finals at the end. Each one gates the work after it.

Before the first patient

Plant commissioned, permit closed, a full clean, and a walkthrough with you. We do not hand back a room that is not ready to treat in.

Why the contractor matters on a clinical fit-out

Only claims we can stand behind. Everything below is either a matter of public record or visible in the work shown on this page.

Licensed, bonded and insured

Elbaz Construction is a licensed general contractor, CBC1265280. Permits are pulled in the company name.

Services set out from the equipment

Not from the room. Every termination comes off the manufacturer template for the actual model you are installing.

We coordinate your suppliers

Equipment vendors have their own crews, lead times and requirements. Scheduling them against the trades is our job, not yours.

Specialists used where specialists are required

Shielding is designed by a qualified specialist for your equipment and room. We build to that design rather than estimating it.

Phasing planned around your book

Where you stay open, the sequence is built around your clinical hours from the start rather than negotiated week by week.

Cleanability detailed, not assumed

Coved junctions, sealed seams and wipeable cabinetry are drawn and specified, because these details are where clinical finishes actually fail.

Accessibility designed in

Route, door widths, clear floor space, counter and toilet are resolved in design where they are cheap, not on site where they are not.

Permit closed out

The permit is signed off and closed. An open permit follows the property and surfaces at lease renewal or sale.

Questions, by stage

Filter to the part of the job you are thinking about.

Can we stay open during the remodel?Before starting

Usually yes, and it is the most common way this work is done. The practice is divided by full-height temporary partitions, routes and exits stay clear, and the noisy work happens outside your clinical hours. It costs more and takes longer than closing, and we will give you both numbers so you can choose.

How is a clinical fit-out different from an office fit-out?Before starting

The services terminate at a chair rather than a desk, and they have to land within inches of a specific piece of equipment. The surfaces have to be repeatedly cleanable rather than just hard-wearing. And the plan has to keep patients and staff on routes that do not fight each other.

Do we need to choose equipment before design?Before starting

It is by far the best way. Service positions are set out from the manufacturer template for the actual model, so choosing later turns those positions into assumptions - and correcting an assumption after the floor is finished is the most expensive kind of change on this work.

How many operatories can we fit?Design

That comes out of the plan rather than the square footage, because circulation, sterilisation, plant space and accessible clearances all take room. We would rather show you a plan that works than a number that does not survive contact with the services.

Why does the flooring cove up the wall?Design

So there is no open seam where the floor meets the wall. A coved junction in seamless sheet material leaves nowhere for anything to collect and nothing to fail at the base of the partition. It is standard in treatment and processing rooms for exactly that reason.

Can you make reception more private?Design

Yes, and it is mostly a plan and partition question rather than a furniture one. Where the desk sits relative to the seating, what the partition is built from and the sightlines from the waiting area all decide what can be overheard and seen.

Do we need a health agency approval as well as a permit?Planning

It depends on the type of facility and what you are doing. Some clinical facility types carry a review by a state health agency in addition to the building permit; many private practices do not. We confirm which route applies to your practice rather than assuming either way.

What about shielding for x-ray equipment?Planning

Where imaging is installed, the shielding is designed by a qualified specialist for the specific equipment and room, and we build to that design. Registration and inspection of the equipment itself follow their own process with the relevant authority.

How early do we need to involve our equipment supplier?Planning

Immediately. Their lead times, installation requirements and crew availability all shape the programme, and their templates drive where every service terminates.

What gets inspected?Permits

Typically the rough-in across plumbing, electrical and mechanical before anything is closed up, then finals for each trade. Where a health agency route applies, that runs alongside rather than instead.

Will our landlord be involved?Permits

Almost certainly. Commercial leases commonly govern working hours, noise, waste routes and roof access for plant - all of which matter a great deal on a clinical fit-out. It is worth getting the fit-out conditions early.

How do you control dust while we are treating?Construction

Full-height partitions from floor to structure, not screens, plus an agreed approach to air management during the works and a protected route for patients and staff. It is planned before anything opens up and agreed with you.

What happens if you find undocumented services?Construction

You hear about it the same day, with what it means for cost and programme. In an older practice, services that were adapted several times and never recorded are the single most common thing a strip-out finds.

Why can you not price this from the square footage?Cost

Because the number of operatories, the equipment schedule and whether you stay open move the cost far more than the area does. Two suites of identical size can differ substantially on those three alone.

What makes a clinical fit-out more expensive than an office?Cost

In rough order: staying open, the number of operatories, imaging and its shielding, new suction and air plant, seamless flooring, and clinical cabinetry. The plasterboard and paint are the cheap part.

What happens before we can see patients?Completion

Final inspections pass, the permit is closed out, the plant is commissioned, the space gets a full clean, and we walk it with you room by room. We will not hand back a room that is not ready to treat in.

How do we look after the finishes?Maintenance

Follow the manufacturer regime for the specific materials, and check the welded seams in the flooring and the sealed junctions at cabinetry periodically. Those are the details that decide whether a clinical finish stays clinical.

What maintenance does the plant need?Maintenance

Suction and compressed-air equipment are serviceable items with manufacturer intervals. We site them so they can actually be reached to be serviced, and hand over the documentation at completion.

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Project files

Clean-room thinking, from a wet-work interior.

These photos are from a nail salon and spa build-out by Elbaz Construction. Wipeable counters, sink casework, tile and organized wall storage are the same details a medical or dental suite depends on.

2Projects shown
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PROJECT 01

Related interior: salon casework with a glass top

A nail salon vanity, shown because casework and a sink counter are part of any treatment room. Light wood-grain drawers sit under a white glass top, with a mirrored hexagon tile backsplash behind. This is salon work, not clinical work.

Scope of work

  • Wood-grain cabinet with drawer fronts
  • White glass countertop fitted to the cabinet
  • Sink and faucet plumbed through the counter
  • Mirrored hexagon tile as a splash wall
  • Tile edges finished at the counter line
  • Storage planned in drawers below the counter

Materials & finishes

Wood-grain cabinetWhite glass topMirrored hexagon tileChrome faucetIntegrated sink

What to look for in the photos

Look at how smooth the glass top and the tile line are. A counter that wipes down in one pass is a design choice made before the cabinet is built.

Elbaz Construction project photo · 3 photos

PROJECT 02

Related interior: a salon's wall of supply shelves

A second view of the same nail salon, shown for its shelving. White floating shelves run along a cream wall, holding rows of red-capped polish bottles and boxes. Wall-mounted supply storage is a trade a clinic uses too, though the contents differ.

Scope of work

  • Cream wall finished before shelving was hung
  • White floating shelves anchored along the wall
  • Rows set at a consistent height and spacing
  • Stock arranged for easy reach
  • Lighting trained on the shelf wall
  • Clear floor in front for staff access

Materials & finishes

White floating shelvesCream wall paintRed polish boxesRed-capped bottles

What to look for in the photos

Look at the spacing between the shelf runs and the clear floor in front of them. Easy reach is a planning choice, and it matters most where staff are working at speed.

Elbaz Construction project photo · 3 photos

Budget and schedule

Where a practice fit-out goes.

A clinical fit-out spends heavily on what is behind the walls. These typical shares and the typical sequence assume the practice opens only after sign-off.

Where a typical clinical fit-out budget goes

100%OF BUDGET
  • Plumbing and medical gas16%
  • Electrical and data18%
  • HVAC and ventilation14%
  • Casework and countertops14%
  • Walls, floors and ceilings18%
  • Labor and supervision12%
  • Permits and inspections8%

Typical shares only; equipment, plumbing counts and the number of rooms move them considerably.

A typical clinical fit-out sequence, in weeks

Equipment list and layout
Permit drawings and approvals
Permit review
Casework and equipment orders
Long-lead orders
Demolition and rough-in
Walls, floors and casework
Finishes and casework
Equipment install and inspections
Week 0Week 10.5Week 21

Equipment specifications drive the early weeks, so the longest lead items are chosen first.

Drawn out

Three drawings for a practice.

A plan of the rooms, a restroom layout and the order of work cover the core of a clinical build.

OPEN WORK AREACOREOFFICES

Rooms and the core

Private rooms, an open area and the service core sit on one plan, and the position of plumbing and power decides where treatment rooms can go.

60 in CLEARWC 16–18 inLAV 34 in

An accessible restroom

The restroom keeps a 60-inch clear space, grab bars at the right height and a door that opens without crowding the fixtures.

TENANT IMPROVEMENT1LEASE+ SURVEY2DESIGN+ MEP3PERMIT4BUILD-OUT5INSPECT6C.O. +MOVE-IN

Lease to first patient

Lease review, design, permit, construction and inspection run in sequence, and the practice opens only when the last approval is signed.

Scope planner

Rough out your practice.

Choose the option closest to your plan to see the trades involved and typical weeks on site.

How many treatment rooms?
How much casework?
What happens to the restroom?

Finishes

Surfaces made to be wiped.

In any room that is cleaned every day, the surface matters more than the style. These four details show glass, mirror tile, a drawer face and a shelf, all easy to clean.

Glass counter edge, mirror tile
Backsplash behind the soap
Drawer front and orchid
Red-capped bottles on shelves

More questions

Finishes, power and storm planning.

What practices ask about cleaning, occupancy class, backup power and humidity.

Ask us directly
Which surfaces survive daily disinfectant cleaning?

Non-porous, sealed surfaces: solid surface or glass counters, sheet vinyl or large-format porcelain, and wall panels or paint rated for scrubbing. Avoid open-grain wood and wide grout lines in treatment rooms. The glass-top vanity in the photos shows the idea: a flat surface with few joints wipes clean fast.

How is a clinic classified for fire and exit purposes?

The building code classifies a practice by what happens to patients. Where all patients can walk out on their own, it is usually an ordinary business occupancy. Where patients are sedated or cannot leave unaided, stricter rules apply for sprinklers, exits and smoke control. Your procedures set the class, so tell us early.

Who installs medical gas and vacuum lines?

Specialist installers who are qualified for that work, not the general plumber. The lines are pressure-tested and often verified by a third party before walls close. We schedule that inspection into the sequence, because a failed test after the drywall is up means opening it again.

Do we need a generator for hurricane season?

Not by law in most small practices, but many choose one. Refrigerated medications, sterilizers, phones and records all depend on power. We can size a transfer switch and a connection point during the build, which costs far less than adding one later. Ask your equipment vendor which devices must stay live.

Why is humidity a problem in an equipment room?

South Florida air can push indoor humidity above the level that electronics and supplies tolerate. Condensation forms where cold ducts meet warm air. We design for a dedicated cooling zone in equipment and storage rooms, seal penetrations and check for a steady humidity level after commissioning, before equipment goes live.

How many accessible restrooms does a practice need?

The building code sets the number by occupant load and use, and the accessible fixtures must meet clear-space and grab-bar rules. A small practice often needs one accessible unisex restroom. The permit review confirms the count, and we plan the plumbing around it before walls are framed.

What is a good way to plan storage?

List what you stock and how often you reach for it. Frequent items go in drawers and shelves at working height, bulk goods go in a back room. Shelf walls like the one in these photos keep items visible, while closed cabinets keep them clean. We lay it out on the drawings before casework is ordered.

How do we move equipment in after construction?

Plan the delivery route early. Doors, corridors and elevators must be wide enough, and floors must carry the weight. Large chairs or imaging units often arrive after finishes are done, so we protect floors and schedule delivery windows. Your vendor confirms dimensions, and we confirm that the route is clear.

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Tell us how many treatment rooms you are planning and whether you need to keep seeing patients. Those two answers shape everything else.

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  1. We read it properly and come back to you, usually the same or next working day.
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  5. If you go ahead, we prepare and file any permit before work starts.
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