Open-ended design helps future-proof buildings for maximum flexibility, long-life and low whole-life cost. This gives better value investment for clients and investors over the life cycle of healthcare facilities.
This book provides knowledge and understanding on the issues, principles and practices relating to the briefing, design, construction processes and the use of open-ended buildings to create a more robust healthcare environment.
Physical change is a subject of concern at an international level for healthcare organisations because of the rising costs of construction and the needs to control those costs of adaptation over time. Building management systems and CAD modelling will provide much support in managing information flows over time but healthcare planners, designers and facility mangers need to enable the culture of change with key performance briefing strategies for inter disciplinary project teams to provide the leadership necessary for ‘change ready’ facilities.
Contributors from academia, research and industry from Europe and USA are brought together in this book and the lessons learned provide benefits to organisations in charge of procuring and managing health and other infrastructure facilities and services.
