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August 27, 2024

2025 PDC Summit features expanded partnerships and new program offerings

CHICAGO — Registration for the 2025 International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC Summit) is open now. The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) and its fellow Supporting Organizations have announced details on programming for the 2025 PDC Summit, which will take place March 9-12, 2025, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

Each year, the PDC Summit brings together thousands of health care planning, design and construction professionals to learn, network and share solutions with the goal of creating safe healing environments. The conference welcomes individuals at every stage of their careers across a broad spectrum of professions, including design professionals, health care facilities managers, construction professionals, hospital administrators and care providers.

General sessions include an opening keynote by entrepreneur, author and futurist Morris Morrison, who will challenge attendees to induce growth and deliver results through disruption, as well as concurrent sessions that center on design solutions for project security, leveraging data to find the balance between regulation and innovation, and a preview of changes to the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 70, National Electric Code, and NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code.

Attendees can align their experience of the 2025 PDC Summit along eight learning tracks: Behavioral Health; Clinical Perspectives; Collaborative PDC Methodologies; Safety and Resiliency; Site of Care; Sustainability and Decarbonization; Regulation and Compliance; and a track curated by The Center for Health Design, a 2025 PDC Supporting Organization, focused on Research, Design and Outcomes. Central topics are explored across a variety of session formats including keynotes, lecture-style and debate-style sessions, as well as peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing forums.

Several interactive sessions, such as certification exam review programs, an evidence-based design workshop and an in-person facility tour, are also offered as add-on events. In addition to staying informed about new developments in the field, attendees can earn continuing education credits toward industry-standard certifications such as designations from the American Institute of Architects; ASHE’s Certified Health Care Constructor certification; Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives; The Center for Health Design’s Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification; and nursing licenses.

The PDC Summit is one of the nation’s premier events focused on innovation in the health care design and construction field, complete with an exhibition that gathers the field’s leading solutions providers. ASHE joins a coalition of Supporting Organizations dedicated to optimizing the health care physical environment to present this year’s event. Those organizations include the Academy of Architecture for Health, a Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architecture (AAH|AIA); American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID); American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA); Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN); Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC); ASHRAE; Business + Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA); The Center for Health Design; Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI);  International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS); and Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD).

Early registration rates are available through Jan. 10, 2025. For more details and to register for the 2025 PDC Summit, visit ashe.org/education/pdc-summit.