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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.

Architects | Stantec | Jul 22, 2016

5 creative approaches to finish standards

With the right mindset, standards can produce great design for healthcare facilities, as VOA's Candace Small explores.

Healthcare Facilities | Gresham Smith | Jul 20, 2016

Process mapping simplifies healthcare design

Charting procedures and highlighting improvement opportunities can lead to developing effective design strategy simulations. GS&P’s Ray Wong writes that process mapping adds value to a project and bolsters team and stakeholder collaboration.

Building Technology | Jul 11, 2016

3D scanning technology solves University of Iowa Children’s Hospital’s curved wall curveball

Gilbane Building Company utilized advanced 3D scanning technology as part of a virtual design and construction (VDC) solution to ensure quality control throughout the lifespan of the project

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 7, 2016

How to navigate the tedious regulatory approval process in healthcare construction

Compliance processes can be handled efficiently with a little bit of foresight. CBRE's Patrick Duke, Kyle Marden, and David Vollmer evaluate the regulations and permits that may be required and the process for incorporating approvals into projects.

Healthcare Facilities | Jul 1, 2016

AIA releases summary of the 2016 Design and Health Research Consortium

Consortium members discussed how architects, designers, and health professionals can best apply design and health research in their communities.

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 19, 2016

Rapid growth of retail health clinics presents new choices for consumers, payers, and providers

Service expansions help dealers boost clinics’ profitability. 

Healthcare Facilities | Jun 10, 2016

Top 10 health technology hazards include some influenced by space design

ECRI Institute’s annual list includes operational and workflow issues.

 

Healthcare Facilities | May 30, 2016

CBRE finds that investors are still flocking to healthcare sector

Over the past year, healthcare accounted for nearly one-fifth of all new jobs in the U.S.

Big Data | May 27, 2016

Analytics alone won't save money for healthcare facility owners

Advanced technology provides insight into the actions necessary to cut costs, but it's the people, processes, and implementation that make a difference with analytics, writes CBRE's Paul Oswald.

Hospital Design Trends | May 19, 2016

CannonDesign releases new white paper on advancements in operating room environments

"Surgical Suites: Emerging Approaches to Planning and Design" offers solutions for collaboration and technology integration.

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