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Archive >  Surgical Construction 2003

Equipping Your New Surgery Center

A professional equipment consultant offers a step-by-step approach to managing the equipment planning process.

Larry Hampton

A new surgery center's top two expenses? The building itself. And the medical and surgical equipment. Surprised by No. 2? Well, consider that a surgery center can house as many as 5,000 pieces of equipment (if you count surgical instruments) made by as many as 100 different manufacturers. Much of this equipment has 90- to 120-day manufacturing lead times, plus shipping, installation, training and biomedical certification time. Put another way: If you wait until the construction phase to start thinking about equipment, your project is sure to suffer.

An equipment-buying timeline
Many times, architects and engineers must stop their work, awaiting detailed information so that they can design the building to accept the equipment that you've purchased. This not only slows the development process, but it also increases costs.

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