The Business Case For BIM in Healthcare Facility Design And Construction Hospitals can be said to be the most complex of common building types. Each hospital is comprised of a wide range of services and functional units. These include diagnostic and treatment functions, hospitality functions and the fundamental inpatient unit. Each of the wide-ranging and constantly evolving functions […]
Designing Healthcare Environments for Handicapped Children Architects in India are generally not very interested in barrier-free design and accessibility. The majority of them would not have even heard these terms used in this context. They are unaware what good can happen through appropriate design because they don’t really understand the impact of bad design. […]
Grid-Shrinking as a means of Cutting Costs in Healthcare Facility Design: A Conversation Hussain Varawalla Healthcare Architect Syed Basharath Ali-CEO-Tameer Consulting Associates Sameer Mehta Director-Projects-Hosmac India Following are the proceedings of an email debate on whether shrinking the column grid in a proposed healthcare facility project would be an effective way of cutting costs. […]
Healthcare Architecture: How to Attract the Best Talent Healthcare facility design poses some interesting problems for the healthcare facility designer. Unfortunately, these “interesting” problems are not of much interest to architects in general, who look upon the field as somewhat technical and dry. Thus it is difficult to attract bright young architects to visit this […]
PREFACE A facility program makes explicit the goals, facts, concepts, and facility needs of a building in a way that is useful for making design decisions. Facility programming provides essential information to the client and designer about the building requirements necessary to support required functions. As such, it is an important step in the facility […]
Can Hospitals be Architecture? The Image of a Hospital The question ‘can hospitals be architecture?’ has often been posed. One approach to the answer could be to ask how ‘architecture’ is defined. Merriam-Webster offers:the art or science of building; specif : the art or practice of designing and building structures and esp. habitable […]
This news may be two years old, but I just came across this news on the web a few days back. It was always a source of great satisfaction to me to be involved in the design of this dream project, I was working out of a 10’-0” x 20’-0” office on Old Prabhadevi Road, […]
The Healthcare Facility Design Process: Is Interactive Design the Way Forward? Towards the end of the 1990’s, at a health facilities design jury in the USA, over 250 entries were reviewed, and only one project received a design award! We healthcare designers need to hang our heads in shame. Increasingly we find clients asking […]
