Ethos Port City Veterinary Hospital

Building Conversion and Renovation to Create a Cutting-Edge Veterinary Hospital

Ethos Veterinary Health (Ethos) is a national network of veterinary hospitals providing specialty and emergency care for pets. To support their vision of revolutionizing veterinary medicine, Ethos brought on Timberline to convert an existing office building into the Ethos Port City Veterinary Hospital.

The 24,000 SF renovation involved a complete interior demolition and installation of all new walls and MEP systems. Notably, the project included medical gases for surgery suites, installation of an MRI machine and control room, a CT suite and control room as well as installing large specialty medical lights. Timberline also provided design-build services for the structural steel package. This late-stage development required extensive coordination, field verification, and quick turnaround of steel to support the CT machine and medical lighting.

The team faced multiple challenges throughout the project including working with a tight timeline to prepare the MRI room prior to the MRI unit arriving. Several locations throughout the building needed to be opened up to rig in equipment on the first floor and CT machine on the second floor. Additionally, strict guidelines prohibited the removal of soil on site. This required the team to keep soil in dumpsters until a final design was approved, allowing for responsible spreading of the material on the property.