Civil work, installations and medical-grade finishes for healthcare units in Cozumel, built against the room schedule that health regulation requires — not the other way round.
Cozumel has medical demand that does not resemble the mainland: diving every day of the year, a cruise port landing thousands of passengers in a shift, and a resident population that cannot depend on a ferry crossing for an emergency. That sustains immediate-care units, hyperbaric medicine and specialist consulting that a mainland town of the same size would not carry.
Our contract covers construction: masonry, installations, climate control and filtration, continuous-surface finishes with coved skirting, doors with clear widths for a stretcher, hands-free taps, the RPBI waste room and the service provisions for medical equipment. The medical gas system, the shielding of any imaging room and the regulatory filing itself sit with certified specialists. Their test dates go into the programme from the start, not at the end.
Health: notice or licence, sanitary responsible, RPBI waste handling and, where applicable, radiological safety. Municipal: land use compatible with healthcare, construction licence, Director Responsable de Obra and official number. Civil Protection: exits, widths, emergency lighting, signage, extinguishers and an evacuation plan that works for patients who cannot leave unaided. All three start in the first month; leaving Civil Protection to the end is the single most common reason an opening date slips.
| Scope | What it covers | Cost 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Consulting clinic fit-out | Civil work, installations, washable seamless finishes | $16,000 – $28,000 MXN / m² ($900 – $1,500 USD / m²) |
| Dental practice | Suction, compressed air, treated water, sealed surfaces | $23,000 – $44,000 MXN / m² ($1,300 – $2,400 USD / m²) |
| Clinic with procedure rooms and CSSD | Dirty-to-clean flow, sterilisation, ventilation | $29,000 – $52,000 MXN / m² ($1,600 – $2,900 USD / m²) |
| Day surgery with operating theatre | Clean area, medical gas outlets, recovery | $46,000 – $87,000 MXN / m² ($2,600 – $4,800 USD / m²) |
| Radiological shielding, per room | Design, installation and documentation | $174,000 – $580,000 MXN ($9,700 – $32,200 USD) |
| Medical gas pipeline system | Distribution, alarms, testing and certification | $348,000 – $1,392,000 MXN ($19,300 – $77,300 USD) |
| Generator with automatic transfer | Small facility | $232,000 – $580,000 MXN ($12,900 – $32,200 USD) |
Ranges for civil work, installations and medical-grade finishes, excluding medical equipment. The items that move the total most are filtered air conditioning, continuous-surface finishes and the special installations. Shielding and medical gas are quoted separately because a certified specialist executes them.
Continuous-surface flooring — heat-welded sheet vinyl or resin — with coved skirting; walls coated to resist disinfectants; sealed ceilings in critical areas; no open shelving in procedure rooms. A hands-free basin in every clinical area, doors with clear width for a stretcher and a wheelchair, and air conditioning with the filtration and pressure regime each area requires. Ordinary commercial specification does not comply and, more to the point, does not work clinically.
It is an island, and that governs the build before anything else: all material arrives by ferry or barge on its own calendar, with freight that shows in the budget. The municipality runs its own approvals. Deliveries are staged and critical items over-ordered, because a shortage cannot be fixed the same day as it can on the mainland.
The building is constructed around specific machines, not categories: every model carries its own requirements for space, weight, power, water, drainage and ventilation. That is why we ask for the signed equipment list before closing installations. We coordinate the medical gas contractor, the shielding specialist, the stainless fabricator and the equipment supplier, and hand over verified provisions so installation does not mean opening finished walls.
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