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Q&A
with Brian Dowd, AIA,
LEED AP, Principal
Blair + Mui Dowd Architects
What role does collaboration
play in your process? How
do you ensure the right
people have a voice at the
design table?
Determining the right people
to engage with in complex
healthcare institutions is an iterative
process. Our approach
is to include representatives
from all levels to develop a
comprehensive understanding
of goals, processes, and
operations that influence
design decisions. As the team
collaborates, additional stakeholders
are often identified and
invited to contribute. The key to
success is to include institutional
leaders that can help navigate
barriers across departments.
Healthcare delivery is the product
of a system of people, processes,
equipment, and institutions
working together. Designing a
functional and adaptive support
chassis requires a communal
understanding of disparate needs
to reach a common goal.
What's one critical question
your team always asks clients in
initial project meetings? Why?
Our firm's design process begins
with understanding the client's
strategic goals, and the anticipated
impact of a proposed project.
To do this effectively in a competitive
healthcare market, our first
request is always for the data.
Before the true design process
begins, our first step is to test
the proposed program against
utilization and projected growth
volumes, and confirm alignment
with financial and strategic
expectations. This early analysis
provides a quantitative basis
for further operational discussions,
and abates unsupported
programmatic requests that negatively
impact the client's return
on investment expectations.
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Q&A
with Helen Mui, AIA, LEED
AP BD+C, Principal
Blair + Mui Dowd Architects
How does your firm work with
clients to help them navigate
the current healthcare market?
We begin projects by evaluating
the client's strategic goals
and plans with consideration
to their historical statistics,
what their peers are doing,
current economic climate,
and industry trends. This
research-based approach helps
us understand how the project
fits within their larger goal and
current healthcare market.
Based on this analysis, we may
propose a master planning or programming
exercise to determine
possible sites or a set of programs
with ROI, such as pairing support
functions with services that have
high reimbursement rates for
clinical projects. Our data-driven
process helps us plan facilities
that can adapt to an evolving
healthcare industry.
What approach does your firm
use to design spaces that
support care delivery today but
provide enough flexibility for
unknowns of the future?
In the programming phase, we
review current trends and different
care delivery models with the
institution to learn how spaces
will be used by patients, staff,
and other occupants. Understanding
their patient access,
staff workflows, recruitment
plans, and care delivery informs
space planning. Some programs,
such as surgery, require specialty
equipment, technology, and
mechanical infrastructure that
are difficult to modify. Investigating
these requirements early
allows us to locate them where
they will not interfere with future
modification of other spaces,
which can be designed for
future flexibility with standardized
sizes, modular layouts, and
mobile equipment.
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