The knowledge community dedicated to designing a healthier society and a more sustainable planet
Healthcare facilities, hospitals, small cities in enclosed spaces; people working, people recovering; babies being born, people dying. Is it really possible to build a place that supports all these different activities? Mai-Britt Beldam explores.
Innovation and the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
This presentation observes that hospital design reflects the personality of both the development team and the client organisation. The team at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has developed a number of new hospitals in the UK, developing a detail-driven approach to hospital design and supporting a vision for buildings to have the balance and personality of Vitruvian Man (striving for excellence in all aspects of form, function and structure).
Can healthcare heal our communities and the planet?
The delivery of care in healthcare facilities results in an ever-increasing environmental footprint, which contributes to damaging the health of the community it seeks to serve. This keynote address examines this contradictory connection between healthcare and environmental health, and explores what can be done to realign the relationship in a positive direction.
Stephanie Williamson, Louisa Desborough
Authoring for advocacy: experiences of writing a design brief on behalf of patients, families and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Diana Anderson, Neil Halpern
Critical care design of tomorrow: how technology fits in
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Alder Hey Children's Hospital
E Prescot Rd, Liverpool L14, UK
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New QEII Hospital
Howlands, Welwyn Garden City AL7 4RL, UK
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New Children’s Hospital, Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
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Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital
Kundratstraße 3, 1100 Wien, Austria
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Hopewood Park
Sunderland SR2 0NB, UK
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Aabenraa Psychiatric Hospital
Damhaven 12, 7100 Vejle, Denmark
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New Karolinska Solna
Stockholmvägen 22, 761 43 Norrtälje, Sweden
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Humber River Hospital
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
1000 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2X, Canada
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Shanghai International Hospital
Hongqiaozhen, Minhang, Shanghai, China, 201103