Restoration crews trained on ICRA Class IV containment, hospital-grade documentation, and the regulatory expectations that make healthcare restoration different from every other commercial job.
A water loss in a clinical environment is not just a property problem — it's a patient-safety problem, an infection-control problem, a compliance problem, and a continuity-of-care problem all at once. The drywall is the easy part. The hard part is doing the work in a building where patients are being seen down the hall, where the HVAC return moves contaminated air toward the OR if the containment isn't airtight, and where the inspector comes back at the end with a checklist designed for healthcare construction, not for restoration.
We restore healthcare facilities across the Fairfax cluster — hospital-affiliated medical office buildings along the Route 50 / Inova corridor, independent specialty clinics across the county, dental practices in the Vienna and Fairfax Station areas, and veterinary clinics that have most of the same containment requirements as their human counterparts. Each job runs to ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) standards appropriate to the facility class, with HEPA-filtered negative-air containment, full PPE, and documentation that matches the building's ICRA permit.
The work happens in phases that respect the clinical schedule. The OR doesn't close because the conference room flooded. The treatment rooms stay in service while the records-storage ceiling gets repaired. Crew schedules, containment placement, HVAC isolation, and access routing are all built around the daily patient flow — and documented so your facilities manager can show the inspector exactly what was contained, when, and by whom.
Typical range: $15,000 – $75,000+ for a whole-property scope in the Fairfax County area. Final cost depends on the specific conditions of your property — we give you a written scope and estimate after the on-site walk-through, with no obligation to proceed.
About insurance: Whole-property and commercial scopes involve detailed business-interruption and operational-continuity documentation. We provide the full restoration record and partner with your carrier's commercial team throughout.
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Before we touch anything: which patient-care areas are affected, which are adjacent, what is the airflow path from the loss to clinical space, and where does the ICRA classification put us. This drives every other decision.
HEPA-filtered negative-air machines, sealed poly barriers with sticky-mat entry, separate clean and dirty corridors, full PPE for crew. Containment integrity verified with smoke testing before active work starts.
Affected zones isolated from the building HVAC. Returns sealed, supply dampered if needed, separate negative-air exhaust to outside. We do not let restoration airflow cross into clinical space.
Active demolition, drying, and high-noise work scheduled around the patient day. We start when the last patient leaves and we are out before the first morning appointment.
Moisture readings logged daily per zone. Drying continues until materials hit verified target moisture content — not until they "look dry."
Affected surfaces cleaned to healthcare-grade protocols. ATP testing on critical surfaces where applicable. Documentation includes product used, contact time, and verification readings.
Final clearance walkthrough with your facilities manager and infection-control coordinator. Documentation package matches the ICRA permit format and includes containment logs, HEPA filter changes, moisture readings, and decontamination verification.
Multi-floor properties along the Inova Fairfax campus corridor and the Route 50 medical complex. Vertical-stack water tracing through patient floors, OR-adjacent containment with smoke-test verification, separate clean and dirty corridor routing for crew, and ICRA Class IV documentation aligned with the hospital's construction permit standards.
Post-event decontamination scopes — pathogen exposure, sewage events in clinical space, contaminated water Category 3 incidents. EPA-registered disinfectants, contact-time verification, ATP swab testing on critical surfaces, full chain-of-custody documentation for affected materials.
Smaller footprint, same compliance bar. Independent specialty clinics in the Fairfax, Vienna, and Reston areas. Treatment rooms stay in service while we work non-clinical zones; full HVAC isolation on any cross-corridor work.
Operatory water-line failures, vacuum-system overflows, air-compressor room moisture, sterilization-area events. Containment between operatories so the practice keeps running; documentation matches OSHA + Virginia Board of Dentistry expectations.
Same containment principles as human clinical, with the added overlay of boarding patients on-site. Treatment areas separated from boarding; surgical suites protected with the same ICRA-style containment we use in human MOBs.
Healthcare restoration is regulated restoration. The Joint Commission, CMS, state health departments, and the facility's own infection-control committee all have a say in how the work is done and how it's documented. A normal restoration scope and photo log is not enough. The documentation has to show — to an auditor, months later — that containment was built correctly, that HEPA filtration was verified, that contaminated material was disposed of through the right waste stream, and that the clinical environment was demonstrably safe before patient-care activity resumed.
We run every healthcare job to that audit-readiness standard from day one. Containment logs are kept hourly. HEPA filters are change-logged. Surface verification is documented per zone. The final closeout package is structured so the facility's compliance team can drop it directly into the permit file.
“They built ICRA Class IV containment around a fourth-floor pipe break, smoke-tested it in front of our infection-control coordinator, ran the work overnight, and we never closed a treatment room. The compliance documentation went straight into our permit file.”
“Operatory water line let go on a Saturday. They contained the affected operatory and the next two, ran our sterilization area as a clean zone with its own entry, and we were fully back in service Monday morning. Patient experience: minimal disruption.”
“Storm drain backup affected the kennel area while we had a dozen patients boarding. They built containment that let us keep boarders on the clean side, decontaminated the affected zone to clinical standards, and gave us documentation our medical director was comfortable signing off on.”
ICRA is the Infection Control Risk Assessment — a framework for matching containment requirements to the patient population and the type of work. We work to Class III and Class IV containment standards depending on the facility type and proximity to immunocompromised patient areas. The class is set during initial assessment with your infection-control coordinator.
Yes, in most cases. We work the affected zone behind sealed HEPA-filtered containment with separate HVAC, and we stage active demolition and high-noise work for off-hours. Adjacent treatment rooms continue running normally.
Affected materials removed and disposed of through medical-waste protocols where applicable. Surfaces decontaminated with EPA-registered hospital-grade disinfectants at full contact time. ATP testing on critical surfaces. Documentation tracks every step.
IICRC-certified technicians, ICRA-trained on Class III/IV containment, full commercial liability, workers comp, and the COI structure healthcare facilities require. Specific certs available on request.
Affected zone isolated from building HVAC at the start of work. Returns sealed, supply dampered or diverted, separate negative-air exhaust to outside the building. Building HVAC is not used for restoration airflow.
ICRA classification at start, containment build photos with smoke-test verification, hourly containment integrity logs, HEPA filter change log, daily moisture readings per zone, decontamination product/contact-time records, ATP test results where applicable, and the final clearance walkthrough sign-off.
Yes — these are the most controlled jobs we do. Pre-work meeting with your infection-control coordinator and facilities manager, containment plan approved before mobilization, smoke-test verification of containment integrity before any active work, and a separate clearance protocol for the sterile space before it returns to use.
Healthcare restoration starts with the containment plan. Get us on-site before the work begins.
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