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Carlson Studio signs on to design the Treasure Coast Animal Hospital project

Posted by Carbon Design on Thu, Mar 11, 2010

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Carlson Studio Architecture has been asked to combine our knowledge of Green Design and Animal Hospital design into a very exciting new project. The Non profit organization is renovating a vacant car dealership into a state-of-the art animal hospital. They are partnering with regional veterinary programs to offer teaching opportunities, as project is taking the best examples of human hospitals and applying it to care for your pets. More details to follow...

 

Non Profit's Mission / Project statement:

Our mission is to provide all aspects of health care for our communities' pets while making the facility as sustainable or "green" as possible.  Our main focuses will be a twenty-four hour hospital, lab on site, research center, and pet oriented retail in the front. A training area for events and stage that includes extra parking for the events will be on the southern edge of the property. On the back of the property there will be kennels for domestic cats and dogs that also includes a feral cat dorm or "Habicat". The kennels will be made up of five buildings like dorms, two for cats, three for dogs. 
The hospital will be a state of the art facility that will have all the latest and best equipment such as a MRI, cat scan and digital x-ray.  The veterinarian staff will consist of a chief surgeon and interns who have graduated school but need to work under someone before they can open their own practice.  They will do a two year rotation which will allow them to learn the practice from the ground up.  They will work with every aspect from the vet work to the kennels, etc which will give them insight into running their own practice. At the end of the two year rotation they can either stay with us or choose to move on to their own practice. 

We also hope to get the local vets in the area to become participating vets.  They would volunteer two days a month in the hospital and in turn they would have access to our equipment for their regular patients. We will have a lab on site to expedite the lab tests instead of the tests being sent out of the area as well as allowing the local vets access to a local lab. This will allow results the next day instead of the normal two to three day wait since it is time sensitive information. The research facility will look into diseases that affect our pets.

There will be pet oriented retail space that will offer a variety of pet related services such as, but not limited to, a groomer, a pet treat/bakery, a pet supply shop, and an obedience trainer.  There will be a rehab facility that will help with rehabilitation after surgery and trauma as well as aging dogs that have problems such as arthritis. The goal is to make this facility into a convenient, one stop experience for our customers. 

There will be a "no pet turned away" policy at our hospital which means every animal will be treated regardless of ability to pay.  This will be done by utilizing existing grants through non profits, city and county monies, and donations.

An added benefit of this facility is that it will be as sustainable as possible.  We will utilize solar panels on the roof to absorb electrical costs.  Solar panels will also be used to provide hot water.  We will use carpets  and paints with no VOC's, drywall and framing will be made utilizing 90% reclaimed material, sustainable furniture, water catchment, native landscaping, and natural lighting.  We intend on our entire interior to be sustainable or "green." We can utilize grants to absorb 40% of the cost of development by pursuing the green initiatives, as well as providing a clean facility for our animals at the same time.

 

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