Project Management

Health care facility project management includes planning, design and construction. It requires a sequential approach to each step, addressing planning first, then the various design phases, construction of the project, and the operations and management throughout the project and following.

Speaker: Tatiana GuimaraesLearn how to identify the urgent need to challenge existing design practices and how designers accommodate this continuous change through flexibility and vision. This presentation highlights four different case studies that defy the current surgery design model. 
Speakers: Erica Larson and John RyanLearn about the significant need for mental health services and facilities, the hurdles of navigating a specific legislative process, and the shifts in design for today’s non-institutionalized psychiatric settings. 
The purpose of the AIA/AAH PDC Planning + Design Student Challenge is to produce a compelling design-to-budget proposal with teammates drawn from a hat. This roundtable discussion with student faculty advisors covers team development and collaboration, and the issues and lessons addressed are not…
Speakers: Cathleen Lange, Paula Wright, Teresa Wilson, Shawn Seaman, and Alison FaecherDiscover the story, process, and solutions architects and health care leaders take to eliminate health care-associated infections.  
Speakers: Tim Peglow, Pamela Redden, Richard Rucksdashel, Jayson CasalloThis presentation addresses the facility implications in planning for infection transmission prevention, recommendations for developing an infection prevention team, and insights from project leaders. 
Many health care facilities need greater investment to improve the country's health care infrastructure. This monograph outlines the state of health care facilities and explores potential areas for investment.
This checklist can be used to gather data on requirements of new health care construction and major renovation projects.