App State Campus Store
Boone, North Carolina
Renovation of the first-floor retail and service area at the heart of campus, including new signage and sound systems.
What We Offer
Commercial Upfit and Renovation
The building is already there and the business inside it still has to run. An upfit is judged on two things: whether the space works better afterwards, and whether anyone lost revenue while you did it.
Most of the portfolio
The majority of Hayco projects are renovations and upfits inside existing buildings.
ICRA certified
Field teams hold the infection control standard for working in occupied clinical space.
Occupied delivery
Clinics, a surgery center, a maintenance shop and a trading brewery all stayed open during the work.
Low impact is a plan, not a promise
Every contractor says they will minimize disruption. What separates them is whether that exists as a document before mobilization or as an intention afterwards. On an occupied upfit the plan has to answer four questions in writing.
- Where does the work zone stop? Containment, dust and noise control, and a boundary that keeps customers and staff out of the work and keeps the work out of the business.
- How do materials and debris move? Routes that do not cross customer-facing space, at hours that do not cost the tenant trade.
- When can services be interrupted? Power, water and HVAC outages scheduled against the operation rather than the crew.
- What stays usable throughout? Egress, restrooms, corridors and access have to remain compliant and available, which usually means phasing rather than one continuous push.
App State Career Development Center, Boone, North Carolina. A second-floor upfit above an operating student union, adjacent to a working food service area.
What an upfit can cover
Upfit scope ranges from finishes to structure. Hayco has delivered all four categories below.
01
Cosmetic renovation
Finishes, fixtures, lighting, signage and storefront work that changes how a space reads without moving what holds it up.
02
Structural upfitting
Modifications to the structure itself, including openings, reinforcement and support for new loads the building was not designed to carry.
03
Building expansion and additions
Adding footprint or floors to an existing building, including vertical expansion on an operating facility.
04
Mechanical installation and reinforcement
HVAC, electrical, plumbing and fire alarm work, including capacity upgrades to serve a changed use.
How an upfit runs
The sequence below is built around the fact that the building is not empty.
STEP 01
Walk the space with the people who use it
What the space fails at today, who occupies it, and what the operation genuinely cannot tolerate. This is where the phasing plan comes from.
STEP 02
Assess what the existing building allows
Structure, mechanical capacity and code status of an existing shell decide what is possible and what is expensive. Discovered late, these are the items that reset a budget.
STEP 03
Value engineer against the goal, not the spec
Hayco uses a value engineering method to hold scope against budget, which means substituting where it does not matter and protecting where it does.
STEP 04
Write the phasing and containment plan
Work zones, access routes, outage windows and what stays open. Agreed before mobilization, not negotiated during it.
STEP 05
Build in phases
Sequenced so the business keeps operating, with after-hours work where the space cannot close.
STEP 06
Turn over in stages
Areas handed back as they complete, so the operation gets space returned progressively rather than all at the end.
When an upfit is the right structure
Choose a commercial upfit when
- The shell exists and the question is what goes inside it.
- You are taking over a space and need it fitted to your operation.
- The building works but the layout, systems or finishes no longer do.
- You are adding a suite, a department or capacity inside an existing footprint.
- The business needs to keep running through the work.
Choose something else when
- You are building from the ground up. That is general construction or design-build.
- You need a site selected and evaluated first. Start with preconstruction.
- The building is being fully replaced rather than reworked.
Upfit and renovation projects
Cone Health at Forest Oaks
North Carolina
Demolition and renovation of offices for a medical facility, the largest healthcare renovation in the portfolio.
App State Career Development Center
Boone, North Carolina
Second-floor upfit including demolition, general construction, HVAC, electrical, fire alarm and structural modification.
Capital Animal Hospital
Columbia, South Carolina
New surgery suite plus interior renovation of an operating veterinary hospital, with a revamped storefront entrance, awning and accessible discharge walkway.
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
Mocksville, North Carolina
Interior upfit of the credit union's newest location in the Mocksville Financial Center.
Greensboro ENT
Greensboro, North Carolina
Upfit of an operating medical office.
ATS Logistics, Inc.
North Charleston, South Carolina
Pre-engineered metal building converted into an over-the-road maintenance and service shop, with envelope and insulation repair.
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Hayco's upfit portfolio spans retail, financial, educational institutions, office buildings and medical facilities. Build-type depth for each is on the industry pages.
Related delivery structures: design and engineering when the upfit needs drawings before it can be priced, and facility maintenance for the work that continues after the space is occupied.
Their Quality of Work exceeds all expectations. They do not hesitate to do what is best for their customers.Ashley Kistler, Labcorp
Where Hayco upfits
Upfit work has been delivered across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Hayco is licensed in five states and staffs work from Pilot Mountain and Raleigh, North Carolina, and West Columbia, South Carolina. See the healthcare, retail and financial, institutional and laboratory pages for build-type detail.
Common questions
Can we stay open during the work?
In most cases yes, and it is the assumption Hayco plans around. Clinics, a surgery center, a student union, a maintenance shop and a brewery have all kept operating through Hayco upfits.
What is value engineering in practice?
Holding the scope against the budget by substituting where the change does not affect how the space performs, and protecting the items where it does. It is a conversation, not a spreadsheet exercise done to you.
Do you handle structural changes, not just finishes?
Yes. Hayco delivers structural upfitting, building expansion and additions, and mechanical installation and reinforcement, including a two-floor vertical addition on an operating facility.
Do you work in healthcare space?
Yes, and the field teams hold ICRA certification for occupied clinical environments. Detail is on the healthcare construction page.
Need the space to work better without closing?
Tell us what the space fails at today, who occupies it and what the operation cannot tolerate. A preconstruction lead will follow up.
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