How to design medical buildings

摘要

CSE: What's the No. 1 trend you see today in the design of hospital, health care, and medical campus structures? Randall Ehret: Similar to last year, we see that most stand-alone medical facilities are affiliated with a health care system. They are being used not only as a location to provide distributed care on an outpatient basis, but also as a feeder system for the parent hospital. To this end, branding has become important. This branding often dictates that certain design standards must be applied to the facility. These standards can cover a multitude of mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), fire protection (FP), and technology (T) systems and often have not been refined to meet an outpatient-facility proforma. We are also seeing an increased interest from our clients for National Efficient Price pre-study site selection services. We are assessing potential sites and informing the owner as to language that should be worked into their lease agreements to best protect them.