The evolving demands of healthcare design
The design demands of healthcare real estate are evolving. Whether building a new facility from scratch or overhauling a dilapidated community facility, the shift from medical-centred to patient-centred design has begun.
As the population ages and technology advances, standing still when it comes to designing efficient, flexible and welcoming healthcare facilities simply isn’t an option.
Add in the need to meet sustainability requirements, provide climate resilience and incorporate the importance of wellbeing, and the challenge becomes even greater.
Here we explore how architects and commissioning healthcare professionals can work in partnership with digital design specialists to deliver a different kind of environment for both patients and staff. One that’s centred on people to promote quicker healing, improved morale and ultimate flexibility.
Collaborate for design success
Regardless of location, hospitals, clinics and drop-in centres should be welcoming to patients, visitors and healthcare workers.
The aim of modern design is to create a calm environment that supports healing and reduces both stress and medical dependence. An approach that makes patients more comfortable and allows staff to do their job more effectively.
Achieving this ideal standard relies on bringing together experienced healthcare professionals and experienced design professionals, including architects and digital delivery experts.
Working collaboratively helps to fill any skills gaps, e.g. a commissioning healthcare team may not have anyone in-house to manage specific tech such as BIM. Step forward specialists who can effortlessly use BIM to drive and coordinate projects.
Design professionals can also share their knowledge of how a beautiful building must first respond to the needs of those who use it. As we know, beauty without function has no purpose.
Understanding design trends and demands
All parties involved in a project should get to grips with what design features need to be incorporated to create the ideal healthcare facilities. Understanding what benefits they bring will help facilitate stakeholder buy-in and deliver a successful outcome.
Increasingly, successful healthcare design centres on the following principles: flexibility, people-centricity, tech as standard, resilience and sustainability.
Incorporating these requires buy-in from all parties. A job made easier when you can build a project in the digital world first.
Using transformative tools
Increasingly, healthcare organisations are turning to design to deliver environments that can support wellbeing for all and boost operational efficiency.
To achieve this transformation, architects, engineers, healthcare professionals and designers need to work flexibly and collaboratively.
Step forward tech such as virtual reality (VR). This planning and visualisation tool is priceless when it comes to engaging clients and stakeholders. VR can be used to create a 3D walk-through model of any healthcare facility, bringing cutting-edge designs to life.
With VR headset technology, the project team can virtually walk through a building floor by floor, leading to more informed decisions. VR can showcase where handrails can be most conveniently positioned on walls, where planting can soften a clinical area and where windows should ideally be placed.
And embracing BIM means project teams will always have an up to date 3D model of plans, making design testing and tweaking straightforward for all.
Whatever your healthcare design project, partnering with a digital design specialist lets you give commissioning teams a unique insight into the overall vision. They’ll focus on accuracy and detail, helping all parties to collaborate and share information.
Work together and you can deliver a welcoming, modern, tech-enabled healthcare facility on-time, on budget and on brief.
Integrate the experts at Atlas into your design team and introduce global best practice to your project.
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Atlas is delighted to welcome Khaled Kotb and Maziar Hosseinian to the engineering team. Khaled joins as MEP Associate Director and Maziar as Structural Engineering Associate.
The appointments add to the wide-ranging capability of Atlas’ engineering team who partner with some of the world’s leading consultants and contractors to help improve documentation quality, deliver larger more complex projects and to become more competitive in the marketplace.
Director of Engineering Dr Khoa Tran Kim said, “We are delighted to welcome both Khaled and Maziar to Atlas. As MEP Associate Director, Khaled plays a pivotal role in overseeing the successful execution of large-scale, complex, and multi-disciplinary projects. His technical prowess, combined with exceptional management skills, ensures that our clients receive the highest level of service and project delivery.
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Prior to joining Atlas Khaled was MEP Senior Manager at Hyundai Engineering and Construction working on the Hanoi Pilot Metro Line PC03 (underground section Hanoi), Vietnam.
Maziar previously held senior/lead structural engineer roles with Australian-based organisations including Taylor Thomson Whitting and SMEC International.
Atlas welcomes both Khaled and Maziar to the company.
About Khaled Kotb
Khaled has over 20 years of professional experience in electrical and mechanical engineering, project management, site supervision, design, value engineering and contract conditions. Since gaining his qualifications from Cairo University he has worked in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Vietnam. His multilingual capabilities in English, Arabic, Tagalog, and French are an advantage to effectively communicate and collaborate with our global clients.
In sharing his vision for the industry and working at Atlas, Khaled said: “Atlas is a well-established organisation with excellent systems. As a team, we combine human values, integrity, and honesty with MEP industry expertise to provide the highest level of performance and professionalism to our clients’ projects.”
With his project experience encompassing all stages of the project lifecycle – concept design, procurement, construction, installation, testing and commissioning – Khaled has successfully delivered electrical and mechanical solutions for rail, high-rise residential and mixed-use, hotels and resorts, healthcare, leisure and industrial projects. He has considerable knowledge of global electrical, electronic and related technologies, standards and codes, including IEC, NEC, BS, NFPA and FIDIC.
khaled.kotb@atlasindustries.com
About Maziar Hosseinian
Maziar is a structural engineer with 14 years’ experience. He gained his Master of Engineering Science in Structural Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Upon joining Atlas Maziar said “Coming from an engineering design background in Australia I have been struck by how well informed the Atlas team is of high-level international standards. They are well capable to compete and hold up their own in the global engineering consultancy market and add considerable value to their client’s projects.”
Maziar’s professional experience includes numerous residential, commercial and industrial buildings in Australia and South East Asia. He has extensive knowledge of reinforced concrete, post tensioned and precast concrete and structural steel structures in addition to shallow and deep piled footing systems. Maziar is knowledgeable in the quality control of design and directing the design to value engineering standards and efficient constructability.
maziar.hosseinian@atlasindustries.com
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David Llorente - Digital Director and the Digital team represented Atlas at the AAIA event. David delivered a presentation on the award-winning project and participated in a round table discussion to share the ideas of cutting-edge advancements in design, technology, and application within the industry.
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