We’ve come across a lot of practices that think that undertaking the work themselves is a great way to save money, but it is rarely the case. More often than not, they end up not only spending more money, but also time, and energy that should have been spent on what they do best – serving and healing their patients.
Understand that building a new medical office that strives to be World-class cannot simply be left to just anybody and expect any measure of success. A World-class practice is built by world-class minds, and experts with years of experience specializing in building exceptional medical spaces. Read more about how getting a world-class medical interior design team can save you time and money when creating a truly healing space.
Saving Time
We’ve heard it all before, time is the one resource that we could never get back, and understanding how time figures in the planning and delivery of your Medical Interiors already place you at a great advantage. How does hiring the right design team to support your building project help you save time over its duration? When you get people onboard your project that are knowledgeable, familiar, and focused, the results are never far or even better than expected. You cannot simply rely on any kind of designer or builder to deliver a top-notch medical office. Understand that Medical Interiors answer more to patient psychology than just plain aesthetic decisions. The usual design considerations are being integrated with design interventions that alleviate anxieties from medical visits, deliver the desired patient outcomes, and even hasten recovery times. Harmonizing them all takes specific expertise and experience so don’t scrimp on that.
Additionally, when looking for a new space, we highly recommend having a professional Medical real estate broker. They can become an effective advocate for spaces that will work for your purposes instead of doing the whole Do-It-Yourself process. By weeding sites out according to your requirements they are your first line of defense, so you don’t waste time visiting sites and then finding out they are sorely unfit for your needs. And even upon selecting a site, further representation by a medical broker can be used to negotiate, purchase or rent, finalize terms, and determine an amenable TI (Tenant Improvement) allowance on your behalf.
Builders or contractors can easily make or break your project delivery timeline and budget so due diligence in selecting the right one is key. Like designers, a specialization in medical spaces can be a good criterion to determine which one to choose. Having a body of work that you can visit and refer to can tell a lot about the quality, craftsmanship, and professionalism of any builder. Choosing the right one can also affect the timeliness of the delivery of your project. Finishing a project on time, and in line with your specifications is a mark of excellence that can start your medical office on a good footing.
Saving Money
Carefully selecting the right professionals to work on your project will end up saving you money in all the phases of the project timeline. First, their expertise already builds into the design valuable insight into how a medical space can be more responsive and even exceed patient expectations – that premium for an actual Medical Interior Designer already gives added value to what you will normally get from a regular designer. Second, harmonizing all efforts to make the construction work faster and within budget means there will be fewer opportunities to make mistakes that will have to be rectified – a saving for both time and money not to mention grief. Lastly, even upon turnover, an expert medical designer will have been able to optimize the space for more profitability and position strategies for eventual growth.
When talking about saving money, we also need to emphasize that it is not just the outright investment that owners spend that is being saved, it also includes the future revenues that your own medical spaces earn with profitability being an active and intentional criterion that has been considered early on.
Professionalism is not just about delivering quality work, it’s a matter of personal pride. All the savings in time and money come secondary to building a project that was designed with foresight and built with integrity. Working with the right people can work wonders for your practice – bringing it to a whole new level of efficiency and success. Are you ready to take your medical office to the world-class level? Contact us for a complimentary design consultation today!
