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Over the past five years, we’ve designed more than 150 million square feet of healthcare facilities.
Hospitals over one million square feet, what we call XL hospitals, require a special kind of design expertise, a fine-tuned project management process, and the experience that comes from embracing lessons learned and always looking for better ways to deliver excellence and value. From RFP to grand opening, an XL hospital is never easy given its enormity, complexity and importance.
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Here’s what our experts have learned along the way.
Hospitals over one million square feet, what we call XL hospitals, require a special kind of design expertise, a fine-tuned project management process, and the experience that comes from embracing lessons learned and always looking for better ways to deliver excellence and value. From RFP to grand opening, an XL hospital is never easy given its enormity, complexity and importance.
Over the past five years, we’ve designed more than 150 million square feet of healthcare facilities.
October 29, 2019
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Humber River Hospital
Shirley
Ryan AbilityLab
New Parkland Hospital
Humber River Hospital helped to transform the organization into a globally recognized leader of quality healthcare service delivery. As the “first fully digital hospital in North America,” Humber serves a diverse, multi-cultural community of over 850,000 residents in northwest Toronto.
First and foremost
1,800,000 SF
Humber River Hospital
Serving more than 57,000 patients a year, every design decision for the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab supported a new enhanced model of integrated patient care where human subject and applied research are physically embedded into the care setting.
Designing from the inside out
1,200,000 SF
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
The largest public healthcare project in the U.S. to be built in one phase, Parkland Hospital serves as the gold standard. Architects, contractors, and countless stakeholders worked together to create a “hospital of choice,” regardless of its safety-net designation and a patient population that exceeds one million annually.
Raising the bar
2,100,000 SF
New Parkland Hospital
Infinite decisions are involved in designing an XL hospital, so we designed the Data Wrangler—a tool that harnesses data to inform which option offers the best value. We’re able to immediately determine how various layouts, block and stacking scenarios, phasing strategies, and changes in program will impact cost. We can make real-time design changes in collaborative workshops, and the design team can confidently move forward.
Find the right tools
Data wrangler
We’ve found that on-site co-location, with dedicated space for the entire design team, including hospital representatives, pays for itself many times over. It unites the team through a “vision-first” mentality, enables efficiency, and through a focus on design innovation, saves time and money. Especially for XL hospitals
that involve a lot of people over a long period of time, co-location spaces foster an intangible benefit that,
while it's hard to describe, everyone certainly feels.
To co-lo,
or not to co-lo.
Co-location
French architect Le Corbusier developed the “modular” to create a “range of harmonious measurements to suit
the human scale, universally applicable
to architecture...”
Modularity builds upon the principle of standardization: adding flexibility through unitized consistency between components allows rooms to be one modality today and another next week. This concept allows XL hospitals to flex for future expansion and do so in an economically efficient way.
Connecting design to the human experience
Modularity
Assembly
Construction
Delivery
Installation
Our experience demonstrates time and again that XL hospitals include many repeated modular components, such as patient rooms or restrooms that are ideal for prefabrication—and deliver huge benefits to cost, schedule and quality.
Economies of Scale
Prefabrication
Each phase can offer lessons learned for the next.
Scope is reduced when focusing
on individual phases.
Operations can continue throughout design and construction.
Costs can be spread across phases.
Delivering an XL hospital requires breaking the schedule down into manageable pieces when necessary, not only to streamline the design process, but also to prioritize campus resources and ease transitions.
One Piece at a time.
Phasing
Implement
plan
define
Implement
plan
define
Current State
Future State
New Vision
In filmmaking, “dailies” are compilations of the footage shot each day, which the director watches the next day to inform how the production is progressing. For XL hospitals, we’ve found that documenting the design process and meeting frequently to review progress helps keep the project on track every step of the way.
Running the dailies
Critique & Review
High Fidelity
Medium Fidelity
Low Fidelity
Very Low Fidelity
High Fidelity
Medium Fidelity
Low Fidelity
Very Low Fidelity
At HDR, we use full-scale mock-ups
to evaluate the design with many stakeholder groups, then alter the mock-up to reflect the desired modifications—then we test again
and again.
Mock it up. Keep it up.
Mockups
Connecting people to nature through views and green spaces.
Using less-toxic building products
and finishes.
Reducing loads on emergency resources with energy- and water-efficient systems.
Designing building envelopes that withstand severe weather events.
We do this by:
We’ve expanded our definition of sustainable design to incorporate all aspects of resiliency. That means designing buildings and communities that nurture people and keep them safe.
Green is good.
Resiliency is better.
Resiliency
Green is good.
Resiliency is better.
We’ve expanded our definition of sustainable design to incorporate all aspects of resiliency. That means designing buildings and communities that nurture people and keep them safe.
We do this by:
Using less-toxic building products and finishes.
Connecting people to
nature through views
and green spaces.
Reducing loads on emergency resources with energy- and water-efficient systems.
Designing building
envelopes that withstand severe weather events.
Resiliency
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Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
In filmmaking, “dailies” are compilations of the footage shot each day, which the director watches the next day to inform how the production is progressing. For XL hospitals, we’ve found that documenting the design process and meeting frequently to review progress helps keep the project on track every step of the way.
Running
the dailies
Critique & Review
Implement
plan
define
New Vision
Future State
Current State
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
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We’ve found that on-site co-location, with dedicated space for the entire design team, including hospital representatives, pays for itself many times over. It unites the team through a “vision-first” mentality, enables efficiency, and through a focus on design innovation, saves time and money. Especially for XL hospitals
that involve a lot of people over a long period of time,
co-location spaces foster an intangible benefit that,
while it's hard to describe, everyone certainly feels.
To co-lo,
or not to co-lo.
Co-location
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
Our experience demonstrates time and again that XL hospitals include many repeated modular components, such as patient rooms or restrooms that are ideal for prefabrication—and deliver huge benefits to cost, schedule and quality.
Economies of Scale
Assembly
Construction
Installation
Delivery
Prefabrication
Installation
Delivery
Construction
Assembly
Assembly
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
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Infinite decisions are involved in designing an XL hospital, so we designed the Data Wrangler — a tool that harnesses data to inform which option offers the best value. We’re able to immediately determine how various layouts, block and stacking scenarios, phasing strategies, and changes in program will impact cost. We can make real-time design changes in collaborative workshops, and the design team
can confidently move forward.
Find the right tools
Data wrangler
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
Modularity builds upon the principle of standardization: adding flexibility through unitized consistency between components allows rooms to be one modality today
and another next week. This concept allows XL hospitals to flex for future expansion and do so in an economically efficient way.
connecting design to the human experience
Modularity
French architect Le Corbusier developed the “modular”
to create a “range of harmonious measurements to suit
the human scale, universally applicable to architecture...”
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
Shirley
Ryan AbilityLab
Humber River Hospital
New Parkland Hospital
New Parkland Hospital
Raising the bar
Shirley
Ryan AbilityLab
Humber River Hospital
New Parkland Hospital
New Parkland Hospital
Shirley
Ryan AbilityLab
Humber River Hospital
The largest public healthcare project in the U.S. to be built in one phase, Parkland Hospital serves as the gold standard. Architects, contractors, and countless stakeholders worked together to create a “hospital of choice,” regardless of its safety-net designation and a patient population that exceeds one million annually.
2,100,000 sf
Serving more than 57,000 patients a year, every design decision for the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab supported a new enhanced model of integrated patient care where human subject and applied research are physically embedded into the care setting.
Designing from the inside out
1,200,000 sf
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Humber River Hospital helped to transform the organization into a globally recognized leader of quality healthcare service delivery. As the “first fully digital hospital in North America,” Humber serves a diverse, multi-cultural community of over 850,000 residents in northwest Toronto.
First and foremost
1,800,000 sf
Humber River Hospital
Share
Projects
Modularity
Data Wrangler
Prefabrication
Phasing
Co-location
Critique
& Review
Mock-ups
add arrows
Resiliency
XLhospitals@hdrinc.com
