Heidan Construction

Blog

By

Remodeling an Old Office Building

Office building designs have changed over the years as office employees’ needs have changed and evolved with the times. These changes go hand in hand with technological advancements, workplace standards changing, and more. Therefore, if you have an old office building, remodeling may just be in the cards for you. If so, Heidan Construction is here to help. Here are just some of the many ways you can improve your office and its performance with a remodel.

Boost Morale by Bringing in Nature

One of the most important parts of creating an effective and efficient work environment is ensuring employee morale is maintained. Employees are everything to a company. Without them, the company has nothing. Therefore, ensuring the mental health and happiness of employees is met is paramount.

Nothing is better for employee morale and mental health than bringing in a touch of nature. Sitting inside under fluorescent lights all day is extremely depressing. However, the same job can be a pleasure to do if the work space gets lots of natural light and nature views.

During your office building remodel, opt for installing some large new windows. The bright daylight pouring in will lower electric light costs, improve mental health of employees, and make working for you a more enjoyable experience.

Introduce Integrated Standing Desks

While standing desks aren’t for everyone, those who enjoy them can gain a lot from them. Sitting from morning until night is extremely bad for the spine – one of the human body’s weakest links. Putting in integrated standing desks that can be adjusted from sitting to standing – then back again – at any time of the workday puts comfort and physical health at the forefront of company priorities.

Those who prefer to sit can continue working as usual. However, those who need a bit of variety to prevent stiffness, joint pain, or back pain can spend some time standing without having to move to a laptop or commit to a standing desk 100% of the time. 

Expand to Meet Space Needs

As a company ages, it naturally expands to allow for growth. Therefore, your building needs to expand as well. If you’re not buying or building additional offices to accommodate new employees, your staff is growing more crowded by the year.

Remodeling an old office building means an opportunity to give employees back some of that space that’s been infringed on over the years of collecting new hires.

Expand with a second floor, add on new rooms for meetings or recently created departments, and create new offices for higher level employees to work with privacy.

Rebrand with Modern Design

One of the best parts of working with Heidan to remodel an old office building is that we specialize in modern design. Anyone can build a bland strip-mall office space. We offer something unique and valuable: designs that speak about your brand without words. Let us design a new office-front for you that compliments your brand and the demographic you’re trying to reach. We know good design can make a world of difference and we want to make that difference for you.

By

Renovate an Outdated Medical Clinic

Medical clinics are one of the most important buildings to keep up-to-date in terms of design. With every passing year, technology advances and brings new standards to medical facilities. Therefore, if you haven’t renovated your medical clinic in the past 10-20 years, it’s due for an update. Heidan Construction is the #1 choice to renovate medical clinics in Toronto. Let’s talk about why that is and how we can help your clinic make a comeback.

#1 to Renovate Medical Clinics

What is it that makes Heidan Construction the best choice for renovating medical clinics in Toronto? For one thing, we have a long track record with happy clinic owners who have hired us to build their medical offices for them. Additionally, we offer something many construction companies don’t: high class, modern designs.

While you can get a new building from almost any construction company, you don’t get the kinds of designs we offer from just anyone. We aren’t just a construction company; we offer design build contracting because our team is made up of skilled construction workers as well as architectural designers. That means you get a clinic that appeals to those with an eye for design – or an eye for class.

Keep Your Building Fresh

Even if an outdated medical clinic has all of the technology updates it needs to keep up with competition, you could still benefit from renovation. Why? To keep your building feeling fresh. We all know what it feels like to step into an old building and feel the age dragging down its quality. Don’t let that be your clinic.

If your clinic has stained or unfortunately colored carpet, chipped paint, cracked tiles, or other signs of age, give it a refresher. Renovate your outdated medical clinic to make it feel like new again, without the price tag of an entirely new office.

Update Fixtures, Appliances, and Technology

While many medical clinics may keep their technology up-to-date in spite of the poor aesthetic aging, many others won’t. Modern computers mean a need for modern in-house computing systems and solutions. Building these solutions into the clinic from the beginning is best. When you renovate an outdated medical clinic with help from Heidan, we can bring you the most modern solutions for your digital records and computing needs.

However, computers aren’t where medical technology ends. If you have medical machinery in your clinic, it may need an update as well. We’ll work together with you to determine which pieces of machinery are still working well. We can replace those that aren’t. New medical technology is designed every year. Make sure you’re offering your patients the best care possible.

Keep Your Clinic Hygienic

Finally, we can’t ignore the hygiene benefits of renovating an outdated medical clinic. While deep cleaning is also effective, a boost in hygiene is simply a natural side effect of renovating. Bacteria on walls becomes trapped and killed by a new coat of paint. Broken tiles that allow for mold and bacteria growth get replaced by watertight tiles that can be properly cleaned. These are just a couple of the benefits of removing the old and bringing in the new.

Call us today if you’re interested in bringing your medical clinic into the 21st century where it belongs.

By

Contemporary Home Design That Breaks Convention

Contemporary home design is something that has become popular and well-known over the past couple of decades. However, with time, every interior design style must shift into something else to better reflect the preferences of the new generation. So, let’s take a moment to look at the ways you can achieve a contemporary home while breaking conventional contemporary standards.

Introducing Other Styles as Accents

One of the most fun ways to break any interior design style’s conventions is by crossing it with other design styles. A contemporary home has a very recognizable look. But, what if you took something with a very recognizable look of a different style and used it as an accent?

Have you ever seen some of the bright, color-saturated light fixtures from the 70s? Stick one of those above your table in a contemporary dining room and it’s sure to catch the eye of anyone visiting.

Break expectations by serving dinner on antique ceramicware with painted designs. Love it or hate it, outdated dinnerware contrasted on a modern, black table will get the attention and opinion of anyone who sees it.

Contemporary Maximalism

Contemporary home design is known for its minimalist appearance. Homes with this style usually display spaced-out decor of single colors. Glass shelving proves to make the space feel even more open. What if you turned that convention on its head and maintained the contemporary design of all of your home’s contents, but quadrupled the quantity?

Imagine glass shelves crowded with glass sculptures of varying sizes. Imagine abstract canvas art that fills the whole wall in a beautiful, asymmetrical pattern. Decorate your dining table with a runner, candle holders, glass flowers, ceramic shakers, and anything else you can fit on it between the settings.

Colored Glass

If you enjoy the contemporary convention but want something about your home to stand out, you can achieve that with colored glass. Contemporary home design is famous for its use of glass to improve lighting and make a room appear more spacious. Shelving, tables, light fixtures, and more are all made with transparent glass. What if you kept all of that the same but used colored glass?

A coffee table with a glass top is classy, but it isn’t a focus piece. A top pane of translucent, blue glass would make it a focus piece. Add on a piece of decor with the same color in it and it will make it pop. A glass bowl with blue stones and a candle in it resting in the center would make the table stand out so much more than if it was completely clear.

Fabrics Galore

Finally, you can break contemporary convention with lots and lots of fabric. Contemporary home design doesn’t have a lot of fabric in it. Outside of upholstered furniture and long drapes, contemporary design prefers hard materials over soft.

Challenge this convention with contemporary home design that uses as much fabric as possible. You don’t have to buy expensive curtains to do this. Even buying lengths of your favorite fabric from a craft store can give you everything you need. No sewing skill is necessary. Just fold it in creative places to hide raw edges and no one will even notice.

Go for layered curtains. Tie fabric across the backs of dining chairs. Fix fabric to the wall near the ceiling and let it drape along the side of artwork, like curtains do a window. Put down more rugs. Put out more throw blankets. Bring a touch of warmth and softness to an otherwise hard and cold interior design style.

By

High Class Veterinary Clinic Design and Construction

The average person probably doesn’t think of a veterinary clinic as something high class, but that doesn’t mean they’re right. Veterinary clinics are a necessary part of owning a pet for people of all classes, which means high class clinics exist – or they should. If you’re a veterinarian looking to serve a high class demographic, your clinic needs to reflect that. Here’s how Heidan Construction can build you a high class veterinary clinic that provides the image you’re looking for.

What Goes into High Class Veterinary Clinic Design?

People might not consider a vet the same as a doctor’s office but, at the end of the day, they’re almost identical. The facilities in a veterinary office are the same things you would find in a regular doctor’s office. There are just a few special additions, such as kennels, floor scales, and high exam tables.

Because of this, our experience designing and constructing medical clinics makes us the most qualified to take on a high class veterinary clinic design. Reception, waiting area, privacy, plenty of storage space, and the right layout to accommodate large equipment are some of the things vital to any medical building. Whether the patients are human or not makes little difference.

What Makes a Veterinary Clinic Design High Class?

Veterinary clinic designs can vary dramatically depending on who built them, when, and what the owner’s budget was. What really makes the difference between low and high class veterinary clinic design is the budget and design team.

Any old design team can create a building to house veterinary equipment. However, creating a design that feels classy while still meeting all of the functional needs of the vets working there is more than just slapping down a generic, modern building.

A high class veterinary clinic designed by Heidan Construction will employ beautiful, modern design elements. We value large windows that bring nature indoors and spacious interiors that offer breathing room in waiting spaces and exam rooms. Plus, when desired, we can add in intercom systems, modern, high tech thermostat systems, high quality alarm systems, and more. Our goal is to give you a clinic that feels luxurious to work in and luxurious to visit.

Where Service Meets Experience

Making room for all necessary equipment, records, and storage is vital for a clinic to offer good service. However, in expensive neighborhoods, in a clinic where people pay for the best, they’re paying for experience as well. Low wait times are worth more when you’re waiting in a comfortable and attractive waiting room. Good vet care is worth more when the building makes that care feel more valuable. People want an environment that’s a constant testament to the competence of its occupants.

Hire Heidan Construction

Call us today at Heidan Construction to schedule a meeting or get a quote on your new veterinary clinic. We look forward to working with you to make high class vet service available to your area of Toronto.

By

Specialty Doctor’s Office Designs and Construction

If you’re a medical specialist looking to have a new office built for your practice, Heidan Construction is here to help. A specialty doctor’s office may come with unique challenges or design needs. Our skilled designers and builders at Heidan are accustomed to crafting the ideal medical offices. We can bring that expertise directly to you and make something that surpasses industry standards as well as meets all of your own expectations. Here’s how we can help with specialty doctor’s office designs and construction.

Spacious Design

Some parts of a medical office do need to be separate from the rest for privacy. However, we’ve found that an open concept office is actually preferred by patients. That’s because open concept designs:

  • Are more accessible to people with mobility aids
  • Give more breathing room to those with anxiety about visiting a doctor
  • Have less wall surfaces for spreading bacteria
  • Constrict movement less
  • Are easier to navigate

Open concept medical offices minimize dividing walls between waiting areas, hallways, and built-in pharmacies. The overall experience of an open concept medical office is one of ease. Entering the office, you can find where you need to go just by looking around. There’s no need to follow a bunch of signs down various hallways or get directions from a receptionist. Patients being able to find their own way is always going to set them at ease and make them feel more comfortable in their environment. This spacious design focus will make your specialty office a hit.

Welcoming Interior

Interior doctor’s office designs that set people at ease are another staple of a successful medical office. This is especially true of the waiting room. Across the board, if a patient has to wait in a waiting area that’s designed well and offers comfortable seating, they are much less bothered by a wait.

Specialists have full schedules and a lot of patients. It’s not uncommon for one to get behind schedule. That just means they’re spending the time necessary to give quality care to each person they see. Make the wait a pleasant one with Heidan Construction’s beautiful medical office designs. We favor large windows and lots of space, so patients don’t feel cramped while they wait.

Custom Features

Specialist offices often have custom features to showcase their specialty. If you’re a cardiologist, you may want a built-in display case for models of the human heart and framed infographics. Or, if you’re a pediatrician, somewhere to install a built-in fish tank may be the right move. We can help with whatever sets your practice apart from general practice.

You Deserve the Best

No matter what you need, Heidan Construction is here to help. Not only does our history of medical office design lean in your favor, our crew is also friendly and professional. Nobody wants to work with a construction crew with no manners. You can count on us to deliver a great design and construction experience from start to finish. Call us if you have any questions about getting started.

By

Build a Spacious Doctor’s Office for Partners

It’s not uncommon for two people to go through medical school together and come out the other side wanting to work together. However, beginning your own practice can be expensive. Plus, working alone is altogether inefficient. That’s why so many people work in hospitals or medical groups. By banding together with a professional partner, you can cut out some of that inefficiency and share expenses. However, to get started, you’ll need an office. Heidan Construction can help you begin your journey as joint practitioners by designing and building a spacious doctor’s office for partners.

Shared Reception

If you want to cut down on costs, one of the best ways to do that is to merge your practices wherever possible. One such place is in reception. A waiting room is rarely ever full unless you’re looking at the hospital. That means a regular-sized waiting room is plenty enough space in a doctor’s office for partners to share. This includes the check-in desk and the person manning it.

When a new patient comes in, they’re presented with a united front. There’s no need to figure out which side is the right one. Instead, they can check in at the reception desk, take a seat in the waiting room, and follow whoever calls their name when their appointment time arrives.

Separate Practice Space

While you may want to share things where convenient, if you and your partner are only partners in name and not on paper, you’ll want your own practice space. This is easy to accomplish, design wise, by creating two wings to the building – one practice to the left, and one to the right.

This separation of practices means you’re less likely to step on each other’s toes if you both enjoy working alone. Plus, it’s better for liability reasons that practices that are legally separate don’t mash together where patients and privacy are concerned. 

Shared Facilities and Storage

Have you ever heard that it’s cheaper to live with many people because of things like sharing condiments? You wouldn’t think it makes much of a difference until you imagine a fridge door full of condiments and how every person in the house would have to buy those separately if they lived alone.

Just like a fridge full of condiments, two newly solo doctors can cut costs by sharing facilities and supplies. Those plastic bins we love so much for holding mysterious fluids or dumping trash from all of the things unwrapped for an IV are one thing. A few of those can be shared and sterilized between practices. The same goes for metal tools, gowns, blankets, sheets, and so on.

All of this means a shared storage space is ideal. It can even be built to have opposing doors on either end, joining the two separate wings together.

Custom Design Build

No matter what you need for your doctor’s office for partners, you can get it from Heidan Construction. We specialize in custom design build and would love to take your vision and bring it to life. Take the first step in starting your joint practice and call today.