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Architectural Factors to Consider When Designing a Healthcare Facility

June 30,2015

From small and relatively simple medical clinics to large teaching hospitals, healthcare facilities come in a wide range of designs. Large research hospitals may require subsidiary health care types that act as independent facilities. Whatever the facility’s size, it needs to convey a message of comfort, compassion, and commitment to patient well-being through its architectural design. Cost pressures There are many regulations and technical requirements that govern health care facility design. However, less defined needs and pressures also influence the design. For example, workforce shortages, reimbursements, and physician-hospital relations all influence a healthcare facility’s architectural design. In fact, the entire…

Trends in Laboratory Designs

June 17,2015

In designing a modern laboratory, architects strive to create a lab environment responsive to present needs while still capable of accommodating future demands. Key needs driving this lab design trend includes the desire to create social buildings that facilitate team-based research and the need for flexibility in lab designs. Additionally, architects strive to create lab designs that are environmentally sustainable, which sometimes includes development of science parks with the government. Social buildings In today’s research labs, science is an intensely social pursuit. A successful and productive scientist is intimately familiar with the substance and styles of his or her colleague’s…