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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 19, 2015

Grumman/Butkus Associates releases 2014 hospital energy and water benchmarking survey results

The survey results show that hospitals’ overall fossil fuel use has trended downward, but electricity use isn’t declining much.

Healthcare Facilities | HDR | Mar 18, 2015

Healthcare design partnership asks: What about the doctor?

HDR's Abbie Clary discusses the design of healthcare facilities and how they affect doctors.

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 16, 2015

Healthcare planning in a post-ACA world: 3 strategies for success

Healthcare providers are seeking direction on how to plan for a value-based world while still very much operating in a volume-based market. CBRE Healthcare's Curtis Skolnick offers helpful strategies. 

Retail Centers | Mar 10, 2015

Retrofit projects give dying malls new purpose

Approximately one-third of the country’s 1,200 enclosed malls are dead or dying. The good news is that a sizable portion of that building stock is being repurposed.

Codes and Standards | Mar 5, 2015

Charlotte, N.C., considers rule for gender-neutral public bathrooms

A few other cities, including Philadelphia, Austin, Texas, and Washington D.C., already have gender-neutral bathroom regulations.

Healthcare Facilities | Stantec | Mar 1, 2015

Are you ready for high-rise hospitals?

The vertical hospital environment may be the wave of the future, but it is not without its design challenges.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 26, 2015

Florida lifts 14-year ban on nursing home construction

Some $430 million of new space for senior care in Florida has been approved after the state ended a 14-year ban on nursing home construction.

Healthcare Facilities | SmithGroup | Feb 17, 2015

10 healthcare trends worth sharing

The rise of the medical home model of care and ongoing Lean value stream improvement are among the top healthcare industry trends.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 11, 2015

Primer: Using 'parallel estimating' to pinpoint costs on healthcare construction projects

As pressure increases to understand capital cost prior to the first spade touching dirt, more healthcare owners are turning to advanced estimating processes, like parallel estimating, to improve understanding of exposure, writes CBRE Healthcare's Andrew Sumner.

Cultural Facilities | Feb 5, 2015

5 developments selected as 'best in urban placemaking'

Falls Park on the Reedy in Greenville, S.C., and the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Downtown Market are among the finalists for the 2015 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.

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