Healthcare

Success in healthcare building design is driven by the experience of patients, staff and visitors, balanced with creating more for less for stakeholders.

Design of quality environments where people feel comfortable and secure, and which are convenient and accessible to all, while maximising the utilisation of available spaces and services. This can only be achieved by placing the people firmly at the heart of the design process, going beyond assumptions and guesswork to deliver evidence based solutions for this diverse occupant environment.

Our expertise in healthcare building and estate optmisation includes

• Patient, staff and visitor journey analysis
• Layout and process optimisation
• Wayfinding strategy
• Stairs, corridors and lift sizing
• Supply logistics modelling
• Pinch point assessments
• Travel distance optimisation
• Fire evacuation modelling
• Audit of hospital flow and process efficiency
• Interactive dashboards for real-time data-in-motion monitoring

“BuroHappold’s Smart Space methodology provided the objective tool to confirm how underutilised our spaces were. I believe this pioneering work at the RUH Bath should pave the way for major capital projects and estate strategies across the NHS
_{Howard Jones, Estates Director of Royal United Hospital Bath}

“I see their strength in the detail … coming up with practical solutions that are buildable. Another of their strengths is the ability and willingness to listen at the outset. They are willing to look at more than one approach and are therefore more convincing when making a recommendation to a client”
_{Peter Couch, Lendlease (Queens’ Hospital)}