Essential information for the design of healthcare facilities
Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities, Second Edition is your
one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently
begin the design process and successfully complete a healthcare project,
large or small, on time and within budget. Leading architects from
across the United States share their firsthand knowledge in order to
guide you through all aspects of healthcare facility design, with an
emphasis on what you need to do to get started quickly.
This edition is revised with multiple new healthcare project examples
completed this century, more information on engineering requirements,
and background on evolving sustainability and technology issues. It
begins with an assessment of the healthcare industry's current and
future needs, focusing on how those needs affect architecture. Next you
get critical information and guidelines that enable you to create
successful designs for inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care
facilities. Coverage includes clinics, emergency departments, ambulatory
care units, specialty centers, as well as facilities designed for
adaptive reuse or the assimilation of future technologies.
This quick reference:
- Addresses twenty key questions that arise when launching a healthcare
facility design project
- Offers insight from leaders in the industry based on their own design
experience
- Provides hundreds of project photographs, diagrams, floor plans,
sections, and details
Not only does this book offer current, authoritative information, its
comprehensive coverage and logical organization also save you countless
hours of research.
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials
needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each volume features
leading experts in the field who address the issues that shape the early
phases of a project in a convenient, easy-to-use format.
