本拿比牙医诊所翻新
本拿比牙医诊所，商业翻新，一周完工。 这是老客户找我们的第二个项目——第一次是家里的壁炉。 因为着急开业，整个工期被压到一周完成。 我们重新规划了空间动线和功能分区，把每一寸空间都用到最大化，然后拆除、墙体、电路、水管、橱柜、石英台面、收尾，一气呵成。 商业项目和住宅不太一样——诊所不开门，医生就不挣钱。 时间就是成本，效率就是关键。
項目挑戰
牙医着急开业——一般诊所4-6周的工期被压到一周完成。每停业一天，诊所就在烧钱。原本布局也不合理：薄荷绿老柜门、深色台面、消毒区与前台、诊室、员工茶水间之间动线混乱。我们要在7天内既重新规划空间，又把全部装修做完。
我們的方案
橱柜在工厂提前预制，所有工种并行作业而不是顺序排队。拆除、墙体/石膏板、电路、水管粗装、橱柜安装、石英台面量尺与安装、收尾和设备接驳一气呵成，每天定点验收。前台做了定制弧形台；员工茶水间从薄荷绿+棕色台面变成整面白色shaker柜门+石英台面+金色把手（见对比图）；诊室做了顶天立地橱柜+柜下LED灯带；医生办公室和行政区都重建了整体收纳。诊所如期开业。
Why this clinic chose us — twice
Dr. Michael Peng first hired us for a fireplace at his home. When his clinic needed a fast commercial build-out, he called us back. Same general contractor, two completely different jobsites — and a 1-week turnaround that wouldn't have worked without the trust built on the first project.
How we delivered a full commercial dental clinic in 1 week
Parallel scheduling, off-site cabinet pre-build, and stacked trade rotations — the playbook for a 1-week commercial renovation that respects a hard opening date.
Day 1 — Demo + floor protection
RAM Board down on every existing floor surface, painter's tape on every transition. Demo crew strips the old mint cabinets, dark laminate, and dated finishes. Electrician walks the room with the dentist to mark every new outlet location.
Day 2 — Rough-in (electrical + plumbing)
Electrical rough-in pulled in parallel with plumbing rough-in. Drywall crew arrives mid-day to start patching walls behind the existing fixtures we kept.
Day 3 — Drywall + paint prep
Drywall finished + mud sanded. Paint primer goes on the same evening so it can cure overnight.
Day 4 — Paint + cabinet install begins
Top coat goes on. Cabinet crew installs the upper shaker boxes (pre-built at the factory) so they cure with the paint.
Day 5 — Quartz template + lower cabinets
Lower cabinet boxes installed. Quartz fabricator templates that night for a same-week install.
Day 6 — Quartz install + plumbing trim
Quartz countertops dropped in and seamed. Sink + faucet + dishwasher hooked up. Painters do final touch-up.
Day 7 — Equipment + final cleaning
Microwave, fridge, dental equipment, and reception fixtures go in. Final clean. Walk-through with Dr. Peng. Clinic opens the following business day.
Frequently Asked Questions
- For a build-out the size of this Burnaby clinic (1 reception, 4 exam rooms, sterilization area, staff kitchenette, office), 1 week is the floor when the client has a hard opening date and we get the cabinetry order in early. A more typical timeline for a dental clinic of this size is 4–6 weeks. The 1-week version requires parallel trade scheduling, pre-built cabinetry, and daily checkpoint inspections — not every contractor will take it on.
- Commercial dental renovations cost more per square foot than residential — typically 1.5–2x — because of plumbing for dental chairs and sterilization equipment, dedicated electrical for medical devices, code-compliant flooring transitions for infection control, and ADA accessibility requirements on the patient-side. The exact premium depends on how much existing rough-in we can reuse vs. demolish.
- Yes. For a tenant improvement of this scope we pull the building permit, electrical permit, and plumbing permit ourselves, and we coordinate the City inspections at each stage (electrical rough-in, plumbing rough-in, drywall, final). Dental-specific inspections (e.g. medical gas, X-ray shielding) are handled by separate trade contractors with their own permits — we coordinate the schedule but don't pull those permits.
- Probably not. A shell-space fit-out usually requires HVAC distribution, ceiling grid, full plumbing rough-in from scratch, and electrical service upgrades — work that takes 3–4 weeks even with parallel scheduling. The Burnaby clinic was a renovation of an existing dental space, so we kept the main plumbing and HVAC layout and only modified what the new room layout demanded.
