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How Renovating Your Clinic Improves Health and Safety

Owning a medical office or clinic is a lot of responsibility. Not only does it go hand in hand with intense jobs which require a lot of study and practice, but you become a lot of people’s lifeline. When your clinic is the first place your patients go to for medical help, the building where they receive care is a huge facet of their health and safety. Because of that, our team at Heidan Construction wants to impress upon you how renovating your clinic improves that health and safety. There are a lot of valuable ways you and your patients can benefit from a renovation investment. Let’s look at just a few of them.

Replace Dangerous Materials

So, one of the most important reasons you should be renovating your clinic is if it’s been around a while. If you bought the building from an older practice, took over an existing practice, or have been pouring blood, sweat, and tears into it for many decades, it might carry some less than stellar secrets in its walls. Namely, old buildings can contain things like asbestos. In a perfect world, every old building would be remodeled as soon as a building material is found to be dangerous. However, we don’t live in a perfect world.

When renovating your clinic, it’s important to test for things like asbestos in the older parts of the building. Removing the dangerous materials used to build a structure in the early or mid 20th century is a tricky task. Having a renovation team that can help arrange for the safe removal of health hazards is paramount.

Banish Bacteria

Have you ever thought about how bacteria can be harbored by even the smallest crack or crevice? If you work in the healthcare field, you most certainly have. Now that you’re thinking of it, how many cracks, crevices, fractures, and so on have made themselves at home in your clinic? The answer is: probably more than desired. Even crackling paint can be a place for bacteria to hide.

Bacteria can lead to serious infections and illnesses. Therefore, a medical office necessarily needs to do its best to remove its footholds. Upgrading equipment, wall paint, flooring, counters, and anything else that contains bacteria-harboring gaps of any size is something every medical clinic should strive for. Renovating your clinic to be safer and healthier for patients can start as simple as repainting. Or, if you’re a go big or go home kind of person, it might be time to consider that full scale remodel that your clinic has been in desperate need of for years.

Rely on a Trusted Team

No matter how extensively you want your clinic renovated, you’ll want a team of experience professionals to get the job done right. Heidan Construction is the #1 choice for clinic renovations in Toronto. Don’t wait until an aging building leads to disaster. Provide your patients with an environment dedicated to their health and safety. Pick up the phone and give us a call. We look forward to working with you.

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Why It’s Time to Upgrade Your Dental Office

If you have a dental office, it might just be time to consider an upgrade. Why is it time to upgrade your dental office? The short answer is: everyone loves an upgrade. However, there is a longer answer. You might be interested to know the legitimate reasons why an upgrade can benefit your business. Therefore, let’s break down the long answer into something you can say to staff and management for your office. After all, the long answer does sound more convincing, even if you didn’t need it to persuade you.

Upgrades Improve Office Appeal

The most obvious benefit when you upgrade your dental office is the improvement in appeal. Expanding, replacing fixtures, updating counters, and improving your filing system is all well and good. However, even a fresh coat of paint can bring new attention to your office.

Something simple like painting the interior can make the whole place feel more welcoming. Painting the exterior with a soft, but noticeable, color can catch the attention of those driving by. Many people may drive by your office every day and never knew it was there. This is often the case with buildings painted white. They don’t stand out. Just adding some color may suddenly catch the attention of those people passing you by every day.

Actually going the extra mile and having all of those more extensive changes made can improve things functionally as well. Everyone knows a more functional space is more appealing, both to clients and staff. Speaking of clients and staff…

More Room Means More People

When you upgrade your dental office with an expansion, you’re opening your business to expansion. More room means the ability for more people to fit comfortably inside. That doesn’t mean you need to change your workload. If you hire more staff, you can take on more clients. If you get more clients, you can afford more staff. Get started in whichever way is easiest for you and the rest will follow naturally.

Let’s not forget that expansions are also outwardly noticeable. Construction draws the attention of passers by the entire time it’s in progress. That makes it easy for people to suddenly notice your dental office for the first time. Plus, those who knew it was there and weren’t impressed by its curb appeal may finally give it a try. After all, everyone loves to see the results of a new remodel or expansion. Human curiosity is a great thing.

Prevent Building Aging

Aside from aesthetic changes and expansions, we also must consider the longevity of your building. When you upgrade a building, you create a huge roadblock for deterioration. After all, if you’ve had the same paint job for ten years, a new coat of paint sets the timer on paint peeling and cracking back by ten years. It resets the clock and your office never has to reach that point of looking aged. That’s great news, since an aged building is a great way to make clients go elsewhere and deter those considering your office for future appointments.

Paint is only a small example. Consider the bigger fixtures as well. Ensuring the entire inside of your office is spick and span does great things for functionality and appearance. The morale of everyone working or visiting the building is instantly boosted.

Heidan Construction in Toronto

When you’re ready to upgrade your dental office, Heidan Construction is the solution. We have many years of experience building, remodeling, and renovating dental offices. We know exactly what dental offices need to be successful and we can use that to give you what you need. Give us a call to schedule a consultation and we can talk about allowing your office to meet its full potential.

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Renovate Your Medical Office for Improved Performance

If you own a medical office in Toronto, you may just want to check in with Heidan Construction about renovation opportunities. A medical office, especially one that’s been around for a while, can always do with a facelift. Plus, to renovate your medical office is to invest in improved performance overall. Not sure how a renovation means improved performance? Here’s why renovations matter.

The Importance of Appearance

People value appearance a lot. Appearance, especially in a building, is what gives people their first impression of the company’s quality. After all, if the people in charge care about their clients, they’ll pull out all the stops, right? While medical office appearance doesn’t have to be a representation of the quality of care, people will continue to see it that way. There are many reasons for this, but one of those reasons is comfort.

Client Comfort

Clients who visit your medical office consider part of the overall care you provide to be the comfort of the office itself. Therefore, if you neglect the building their medical care is in, they will feel as if you are neglecting them, in a sense. After all, who wants to sit in a dingey, dark room on a hard, plastic chair while they wait their turn? No one enjoys that – especially not if they’re paying a lot of money to be there.

Better Business

When you renovate your medical office, improving the appearance and comfort – specifically of its interior – you get better business. People are much more likely to recommend a medical professional if they feel comfortable and welcomed when at their office. Plus, existing clients who enjoy their visits to your office are more confident and more likely to come back whenever the need arises. They won’t avoid scheduling another appointment if they know it will lead to a positive experience.

Boost Morale

Plus, the experience of a waiting room isn’t the only thing affected when you renovate your medical office. Medical office renovation also boosts the morale of employees. After all, your team of healthcare professionals don’t enjoy sitting in an outdated and depressing office all day either. Plus, employees are there a lot more than clients are.

Happier Employees

When your employees are more comfortable spending each shift in a newly renovated office, they become happier at work. A naturally more positive attitude is always noticeably different than a forced smile. Clients will be more comfortable interacting with employees who they can tell are really happy to be there.

Better Service

With the boost in employee morale and the improvement in the waiting experience, you can see how renovations lead to better service. Everyone is feeling better about being there. It leads to a better job being done by staff and clients feeling better all around about their visit. Better service leads to better business. Better business in healthcare leads to healthier locals. Improve your medical office today by giving us a call at Heidan Construction. 

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Bring to Life the Office Building of Your Dreams

Are you ready to make your dreams of starting a business come to life? Whether you’re a first-time business owner or you’re upgrading to the next step, getting a new office is thrilling. Making it the exact building you’ve been envisioning working in for the last decade? Priceless. That’s why you should rely on Heidan Construction to build your office up right. From beginning to end, relying on our team is the best way to ensure your office buildingturns out exactly as you expect it to.

Design Build

One of the most important facets of Heidan Construction is that we do design build. What does that mean? Well, it means that, no matter what you’re building, we can help you through the process from the very beginning. Whether you want a medical office, a dental office, a commercial office, or a home, we’ve got you covered.

At the first consultation, we’ll take all of your ideas down and begin the process of designing your building. Ensuring our design is exactly what you’re looking for is a priority. After all, this is the building you’re paying for. You deserve to get exactly what you’ve asked for. After we have your building designed and blueprinted, we can bring it to life.

Unique Qualities of Office Design

The thing about office buildings is that they’re unique in their design needs. You’ll need a lot of open workspace for employees to work from. Ensuring there’s an open concept design as well as ample plugins for computers is important. Plus, employees need their workspace to be somewhere they can thrive. For some, that might mean large windows to let in lots of sunlight. For others, that might mean a controlled temperature. It’s really up to you in the end. But, because you’re catering to your workers rather than customers, you get to prioritize things that commercial buildings don’t.

Get Creative

Your design doesn’t need to be like all the rest. So many offices look exactly the same. Cut yourself loose and think creatively with us about the way you want your office to look. Help us design a building that inspires you every day that you go to work. Help us design a building that inspires your employees as well to give it their all when they come to work each day.

There are so many ways to make a space unique. Take a look at our portfolio and see how we approach unique design. We’re sure you’ll like what you see. Now, imagine what your own office building would look like if it was the next feature in our finished project spread.

Hire Heidan

If you want great results on your, you need to hire Heidan for your next Toronto office building construction project. We have the experience and the professionalism to get the job done right. Give us a call to book a consultation today. If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to clear things up for you.

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Interesting Design Choices that Improve Productivity

There’s a lot more to design than you might think. The design of the building you’re in can change everything from the way you work, to the way you feel, to the way you move. Heidan Construction is here today to talk about how design choice can improve productivity levels. Here’s how it happens:

Color Matters

One of the first things that can affect your behavior in design is color. Color is a surprisingly effective tool to alter people’s behavior. That doesn’t mean you can control people’s individual actions, but you can certainly control their attitudes, even just a little bit. That’s because color has a profound effect on the human brain. Our brains associate different colors with different needs and moods. If you take the effects of different colors into account when designing a workspace, you can optimize work in each area – even different types of work.

  • Calming blues can help lower stress. If you’ve ever been stressed about work, you know how stifling it can be. Being stressed about work can actually make working harder. That’s why choosing calming blue tones for high-stress work environments can keep employees calmer, happier, and more productive.
  • Bright oranges boost energy levels. This true of both orange and red. They actually can raise stress, but in a good way. A small amount of stress is what encourages people to speed up and put more energy into their work. It gives the illusion of pressure, just enough that the brain kicks things into high gear. For physically active or fast-paced work, these bright, warm colors can really do the trick.
  • Middle-tone greens can be a happy medium. Soft, earth greens help keep the balance between calm and productive. This is a great color for clinics, medical offices, and even home offices.

Improve Productivity with Lighting

The next thing that boosts productivity is lighting. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to feel sleepy in a room with dim, warm lighting? That’s because this subtle, warm lighting is similar to the hour before dusk. Our bodies equate it with the setting of the sun and the end of the day. It signals to us that it’s time to sleep.

On the other hand, bright, clear light does a great job waking us up. Have you ever sat outside when the sun rises? Perhaps you’ve had to get up at the crack of dawn to go to work? You might have noticed that the morning sunlight is bright and somewhat cold in color. That is the exact reason why bright lamps or overhead lights with little warmth to them tend to wake us up. They aren’t the coziest lights, but they sure are good at tricking our brains into staying awake.

If you want to talk to experts in the field about how you can incorporate these design choices into your next build project, give us a call. Heidan Construction looks forward to helping you make your next work space as functional as possible.

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Make Your Medical Office Design Truly Unique

Taking your medical career to the next step by building your own office is a big deal. Not only is it the first step in moving forward in your career, it’s an investment that can define your success for the next decade or longer. Therefore, making sure you’re hiring the right company for the job is an important part of the planning process. Here’s why you can trust in Heidan to get the job done right.

Unique Medical Office Design

One of the ways you can keep patients coming back is by having a unique medical office design. So many medical offices repeat the same mistakes or make the same unfortunate design choices. You can break free of that mould and do something different and improved with your medical office. What’s worth making unique about a medical office? Here are a few things we think are worth consideration.

Open Concept

While some parts of a medical office do need to be separate from the rest, we’ve found an open concept medical office is actually preferred by clients. 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
  • Allow freer movement
  • 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. Clients being able to find their own way is always going to set them at ease and make them feel more comfortable in their environment.

Plus, open concept medical offices make it easier for people with wheelchairs or walkers to move around. Too often, medical offices are made small and cozy. This can be comfortable for some people, but those with mobility aids may find there’s nowhere to park their chair or have trouble getting past coffee tables with their walker. Plus, those who struggle with anxiety may feel claustrophobic in a small space.

Softer Environment

While putting some consideration into the psychology of colors may be worth your time, you should also consider the comfort of other aspects of design. Medical offices often overlook the importance of angles and shapes in design. If you want your medical office to feel inviting and safe, and actually be inviting and safe, introduce curves and such into the design. Curved edges are safer for kids and, psychologically, feel safer to everyone.

If you’re looking for professionals who you can count on to make your medical office a success, Heidan Construction is the group for you. We’re experienced in the field of medical office design and can guarantee you’ll be happy with the results of our hard work.