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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.
As the demand for skilled healthcare professionals continues to rise, healthcare simulation is playing an increasingly vital role in the skill development, compliance, and continuing education of the clinical workforce.
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.
BD+C evaluated more than a dozen of the nation's most prominent hospital construction projects to identify trends that are driving hospital design and construction in the $67 billion healthcare sector. Here’s what we found.
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.
The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
Sound can also be healing. It promotes a culture of quietness and enhances environments, not just for patients but also for caretakers.
Shepley Bulfinch designed the project.
What exactly is the hospital of future? Or more specifically, what is the future of healthcare design?
Merely pursuing a high “visit per room per day” metric may drive up other resource needs and, in turn, raise operational costs, writes HDR's Zhanting Gao.
The Crump Firm is designing the project.
Healthcare systems ask their AEC partners for design flexibility that is adjustable to advances in medicine and technology.
This treatment center is half new construction, half renovation of a building that had been used for family services.
Efficient supply chains enable companies to be more competitive in the marketplace.
The three mega companies—Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase—will pursue the formation of an independent company that is “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” when it comes to U.S. employee healthcare.
