U.S. healthcare building sector trends and innovations for 2024-2025

As new medicines, treatment regimens, and clinical protocols radically alter the medical world, facilities and building environments in which they take form are similarly evolving rapidly. Innovations and trends related to products, materials, assemblies, and building systems for the U.S. healthcare building sector have opened new avenues for better care delivery. Discussions with leading healthcare architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms and owners-operators offer insights into some of the most promising directions. This course is worth 1.0 AIA/HSW learning unit.

Products and Materials

Top building products for July 2024

BD+C Editors break down July's top 15 building products, from Façades by Design to Schweiss Doors's Strap Latch bifold door.

Smart Buildings

A Swiss startup devises an intelligent photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun

Zurich Soft Robotics says Solskin can reduce building energy consumption by up to 80% while producing up to 40% more electricity than comparable façade systems.

Great Solutions

41 Great Solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

AI ChatBots, ambient computing, floating MRIs, low-carbon cement, sunshine on demand, next-generation top-down construction. These and 35 other innovations make up our 2024 Great Solutions Report, which highlights fresh ideas and innovations from leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms.

Healthcare Facilities

From hospitals to research facilities, healthcare buildings are essential to the health of the world’s population, as well as medical innovation. Designing these structures requires a delicate balance of technical requirements with the needs of doctors and patients, but when done right, these designs can save lives.

CRB provided design services to expand this production facility

Healthcare Facilities | Aug 5, 2021

Animal health, a huge market getting bigger, is fertile territory for engineering firm CRB

Regulatory compliance is seminal to any project’s design.

Healthcare Facilities | GBBN | Aug 4, 2021

When the hospital becomes home

Patients and their loved ones need a variety of meaningful spaces outside the patient room to enhance feelings of optimism and control.

Healthcare Facilities | Aug 3, 2021

New 9-story outpatient facility planned on Washington University Medical Campus

Lawrence Group and Perkins Eastman are designing the project.

A new cancer center in Fort Worth will replace an older existing facility

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 27, 2021

Texas Oncology continues to expand its reach

It is replacing and consolidating a number of its cancer care centers.

Contractors | Jul 23, 2021

The aggressive growth of Salas O'Brien, with CEO Darin Anderson

Engineering firm Salas O'Brien has made multiple acquisitions over the past two years to achieve its Be Local Everywhere business model. In this exclusive interview for HorizonTV, BD+C's John Caulfield sits down with the firm's Chairman and CEO, Darin Anderson, to discuss its business model.

The OptiView Narrow, for highlighting specific objects in a space.

Daylighting Designs | Jul 9, 2021

New daylighting diffusers come in three shape options

Solatube introduces its newest technology innovation to its commercial product line, the OptiView Shaping Diffusers.

University Buildings | Jul 1, 2021

Texas A&M University’s new Engineering Medicine program receives a new, unique space

EYP designed the project.

Flagler Health+ emergency department exterior

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 29, 2021

New Flagler Health+ Campus breaks ground in Durbin Park

Gresham Smith designed the project.

Rendering of expansion to Elliot Hospital's Emergency Department

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 25, 2021

Hospital serving New Hampshire’s largest metro is expanding its ED

A pandemic delay led the design-build team to rethink the addition’s reception, waiting, and triage areas.

Resiliency | Jun 24, 2021

Oceanographer John Englander talks resiliency and buildings [new on HorizonTV]

New on HorizonTV, oceanographer John Englander discusses his latest book, which warns that, regardless of resilience efforts, sea levels will rise by meters in the coming decades. Adaptation, he says, is the key to future building design and construction.