Our Stories: Construction

Take a Tour of Our New Clinic

We opened the doors to our new clinic just in time for the holidays.  The time between Christmas and New Years is our busiest time of the whole year and we moved in just in time. After almost a month, we are unpacked (mostly!), getting organized and settling into our new home pretty well.  We… Read more »

Our Final Days in the Home That Has Served Us Well

We are down to the final days until we move into our new hospital.  The last few weeks sure have been hectic with so much going on.  Our staff have been busy preparing to seamlessly make the move.  We will remain open during the transition to our new hospital and that takes a bit of planning!… Read more »

Timber

We expected to wait until next week to give you another update on our construction progress but Saturday was an exciting day and we wanted to share it with you. With the help of Trevor Smith, who owns Arbor Pro Tree Services, we selected a large cedar log that originally grew right near Crescent Beach… Read more »

Headed Down the Home Stretch!

We are headed down the home stretch! Things are flying along right now. On any given day this past week we have had cabinet installers, vinyl floor installers, ceramic floor installers, plumbers, electricians, painters, ceiling tile installers, HVAC crews and finally the fire sprinkler guys. That is a lot of people all working at the… Read more »

There Will Be No Lack of Cupboard Space!

Hi Everyone! We’d like to apologize that it has been so long since our last update. Although there was a tremendous amount of work done, it really would not have shown it in the pictures. All the trades have been very busy especially the drywallers, plumbers and electricians. They had to get everything ‘tucked’ into… Read more »

AECFV’s Construction Update

Well it’s been about three weeks since our last update. Shortly after the last blog entry the acoustical insulators had to take over the building for an entire week. All 8000sq ft of the ceiling has been coated with a generous layer of sound absorbing insulation and we can already tell how dramatic of a… Read more »

An Empty Space Transformed

Here we are at week 6 and construction is moving along at a very brisk pace. It wasn’t long ago that we were looking at a very large empty space.  Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the decisions but it is a lot of fun and very exciting to see the rapid progress!… Read more »

The Plans Are Coming To Life

We are just over a month into the build of our new hospital now, and while it may not seem like much has been done up to this week, there really has. A lot of preliminary work has been completed with all new air conditioning units, water and electrical supplies installed in the ceiling area…. Read more »

Here We Grow Again!

Coming This Fall  We are excited to announce that AECFV is currently building a bigger, better, shiny new hospital! This will be our 3rd home. When we opened in 1996 we occupied 1800sq ft for the next 10 years. We were bursting at the seams and moved to our current space in 2006 and boy… Read more »