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New download: BD+C's 2024 Healthcare Annual Report

Welcome to Building Design+Construction’s 2024 Healthcare Annual Report. This free 66-page special report is our first-ever “state of the state” update on the $65 billion healthcare construction sector.




Mass Timber

British Columbia hospital features mass timber community hall

The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project in Duncan, British Columbia, features an expansive community hall featuring mass timber construction. The hall, designed to promote social interaction and connection to give patients, families, and staff a warm and welcoming environment, connects a Diagnostic and Treatment (“D&T”) Block and Inpatient Tower.

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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.

Engineers | Clark Nexsen | Aug 22, 2018

An electrical engineer’s take on designing successful pharmaceutical lab space

Patrick Licklider, PE, CEM, GGP, LEED AP BD+C, an electrical engineer in Clark Nexsen’s Science + technology practice, shares his perspective on what it takes to successfully design laboratory and manufacturing environments for the fast-changing pharmaceutical and biotech industry.

Healthcare Facilities | LPA | Aug 3, 2018

Seismic deadlines approaching for healthcare companies

California hospitals can save money with a holistic approach to retrofit issues.

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 30, 2018

Best in healthcare design 2018: Seven projects win AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards

The Steven Holl-designed Maggie’s Centre Barts cancer treatment facility in London highlights the honorees of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health 2018 Healthcare Design Awards.

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 26, 2018

Healthcare market trends 2018: Health systems get leaner, more resilient

Hospitals set their sights on improving patient convenience and operational efficiency.

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 11, 2018

5 ways design is transforming behavioral healthcare

Circadian lighting, calming materials, and transparency are helping to normalize the patient experience in behavioral healthcare.

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 10, 2018

HGA designs acute care hospital for MetroHealth in Cleveland

The facility’s master plan creates a ‘hospital in a park.’

BIM and Information Technology | Gresham Smith | Jul 9, 2018

Healthcare and the reality of artificial intelligence

Regardless of improved accuracy gains, caregivers may struggle with the idea of a computer logic qualifying decisions that have for decades relied heavily on instinct and medical intuition.

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 28, 2018

New Stanford Healthcare outpatient building opens in Redwood City

The facility recently celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Healthcare Facilities | Gresham Smith | Jun 26, 2018

The future of the ambulatory surgery centers and acuity levels

Offering the one-two punch of cost savings and convenience, ASCs are increasingly becoming the venue of choice for both physicians and patients.

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 26, 2018

Mesquite, Texas to receive 60-acre ‘wellness village’

Construction is anticipated to begin on the initial phase in mid-2019.

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