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Watch on-demand: Key Trends in the Healthcare Facilities Market for 2024-2025

Join the Building Design+Construction editorial team for this on-demand webinar on key trends, innovations, and opportunities in the $65 billion U.S. healthcare buildings market. A panel of healthcare design and construction experts present their latest projects, trends, innovations, opportunities, and data/research on key healthcare facilities sub-sectors. A 2024-2025 U.S. healthcare facilities market outlook is also presented.




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.

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 29, 2017

Obamacare to Republicare: Making sense of the chaos in healthcare

With a long road of political and financial uncertainty ahead for the healthcare sector, what does this mean for the nonresidential construction industry’s third-largest sector?

Healthcare Facilities | HDR | Mar 24, 2017

5 insights for designing a human-centered pediatric experience

Pediatric experience design must evolve beyond the common mantra of “make it fun” or “make it look kid-friendly.”

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 3, 2017

CBRE: Developing a total project budget for a healthcare capital project

Successfully developing a complete and well thought out Total Project Budget is perhaps the most important task you’ll perform in the initial phase of your project.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 26, 2017

A Georgia Tech white paper examines the pros and cons of different delivery systems for ICUs

It concludes that a ceiling-mounted beam system is best suited to provide critical care settings with easier access to patients, gases, and equipment.

Healthcare Facilities | LPA | Feb 24, 2017

The transformation of outpatient healthcare design

Higher costs and low occupancy rates have forced healthcare facilities to rethink how healthcare is delivered in their community.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 7, 2017

Microhospitals: Healthcare's newest patient access point

Microhospitals are acute care facilities that are smaller than the typical acute care hospital. They leave complex surgeries to the big guys, but are larger and provide more comprehensive services than the typical urgent care or outpatient center.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 6, 2017

NYC cancer hospital rises to the occasion

A recent analysis of patient volumes showed that Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center would run out of space for new construction at its Upper East Side campus in Manhattan in just a few years.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 3, 2017

Urgent care centers: True pioneers of retail healthcare delivery

Hospitals, either individually or in joint ventures, run 37% of U.S. urgent care centers.

Healthcare Facilities | Jan 19, 2017

A survey challenges the efficacy of decentralized nurses station design

The Institute of Health + Wellness Design at the University of Kansas raised questions after reviewing a hospital’s renovated orthopedic unit.

Healthcare Facilities | Dec 22, 2016

Has ‘green’ delivered on its promise to the healthcare sector?

As we approach the end of the second decade of LEED, the financial costs and benefits of going green are well documented, write CBRE's Lee Williams and Steve Higgs.

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