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Healthcare Estates Online Digital Week 5-9 October 2020 Call for Papers from Members of Architects for Health

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Healthcare Estates Online Digital Week 5-9 October 2020
Call for Papers from Members of Architects for Health

The annual Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition held at the at Manchester Central for the past few years has been replaced in 2020 by digital presentations and discussions during 5th to 9th October.

Architects for Health has become an integral part of the conference and exhibition – we would like to invite members to participate again this year. Proposals for presentation, topics for discussion and any other content relevant to healthcare design and FM, which can be delivered digitally will be welcome.

In past years, the Architects for Health stream and exhibition stand has been extremely popular and regarded as the focus of design innovation and excellence as well as celebrating collaborative creativity in aspects of healthcare facilities.

There are no boundaries to content providing there is relevance to current or future healthcare design: there will be much interest from delegates to topics responding to Covid 19, future strategic planning and flexibility of spaces.

To submit your proposal, please go to the Healthcare Estates website https://www.healthcare-estates.com/ and click on ‘submit digital content’. Each presentation slot will likely be 20-30 minutes but there will be some latitude – presenters should be willing to take questions and follow-ups from delegates after the event.

Please indicate that your submission is part of the Architects for Health content – we hope to assemble a range of AfH presentations to maintain the high standards of previous years.

Please also confirm by email to iheem@architectsforhealth.com that you have submitted a proposal so that we can keep track of what has been sent to the conference organisers.

Inaugural Ann Noble Research Award Presentation

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The close association between Architects for Health and the Bartlett Real Estates Institute with generous support from the Noble family was celebrated recently with the presentation of the inaugural Ann Noble Research Award.

Ann Noble

Dr Ann Noble

Dr Ann Noble was a prolific researcher, teacher, architect practitioner and Chair of Architects for Health for ten years, followed by her becoming Joint President together with Professor Ray Moss. Ann’s contribution to and leadership of Architects for Health through her energy and determination took the society to new heights: she corralled her wide range of contacts into events and debates as well as increasing membership and the influence and fortunes of the society.

Ann passed away a couple of years ago and the Ann Noble Research Award has been set up to celebrate her work and research interests. The award is made to a student taking the Bartlett Real Estates Institute Healthcare Facilities MSc and is specifically to be used for the furtherance of an MSc dissertation.

The BREI Master course is in its first year and has been reconfigured to be run remotely since March. Teaching and tuition have continued as well as provisions for dissertations, proposal for which were submitted a few weeks ago. Four dissertation outlines were put forward for the award in 2020.

An evaluation team of Paul Noble (Ann’s husband), Dr Hina Lad (representing AfH Executive), Dr Evangelia Chrysikou (MSc Program Director) and Paul Mercer (award administrator for AfH) reviewed the four proposals and made a recommendation.

With the assistance of colleagues at UCL, an award ceremony was held on Monday 29th June with contributions from the evaluation team and introductions from Prof Andrew Edkins (Head of BREI) and Christopher Shaw (Chair of AfH). A recording of the award ceremony can be viewed here…

Eleni Tsiantou

The award was presented to Masters student Eleni Tsiantou for her dissertation subject “Are the waiting areas in hospitals perceived as therapeutic spaces and does their design contribute to that purpose?”

To further enhance the close collaboration between AfH and BREI, four members of AfH have kindly offered to mentor each of the four dissertation students, who continue to work remotely, The AfH mentors are Dr Hina Lad, Caroline Mulholland, Gareth Banks and Carole Crane.

We look forward to the completed research dissertations and will be inviting Eleni and her three fellow students to present their work to AfH by an appropriate means in the next few months.

VIRTUE OUT OF NECESSITY:

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REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19, DESIGN AND THE NHS

Paul Murphy, Director of Paul Murphy Architects, June 2020.

As we have struggled to adjust to the present Covid-19 crisis and start to consider what the short, medium and long term impacts will mean for personal and professional lives, I have been fascinated to observe how the NHS has restructured to deliver its services in the midst of the pandemic. I have worked as an architect in the healthcare sector for over twenty-five years and this crisis has offered time to reflect on how improved strategic design of healthcare facilities could transform the NHS.

This article looks at the current context, collaboration with healthcare industry, pop up hospitals. the flexible use of facilities, technology and the wider ramifications of Covid 19 in the context of the climate emergency and impact on the built environment. Continue reading →

Architect / Design Support – Competitive Dialogue Process

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Ref; The provision of a new Cancer Centre. The scheme is circa 32,300 m2.

The Velindre University NHS Trust, in South Wales, are about to embark on the next stage of their tendering exercise, Competitive Dialogue, after completing the Reference Design and in the process of readying documents for OJEU for the provision of a new Cancer Centre.

The Trust are seeking various elements of support (Architects / Designers and Engineering with design acumen) to take us through the next stages, to audit their current design principles and to work alongside the Trust during the Competitive Dialogue process to provide advice and assistance in assessing the potential bidders submissions.

The Trust would like to bring to your attention the tenders we will be issuing in the very near future. If anyone would like to be considered or would like to discuss further, please do not hesitate to contact Stephen Gardiner (stephen.gardiner@wales.nhs.uk) who can inform you of the tendering process.

There will be various levels of support that may be applicable to your involvement, however I would stipulate any firms or members seeking to be bidding the main works must declare this and exclude themselves from this tendering process.

Susan Francis obituary

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Susan Francis 1952 – 2017

Susan FrancisSue Francis was a determined pioneer whose achievements as a woman, an architect, an educator, a writer and a strategist are woven into many lives. Sue was an amazing person to work with, always generous with her knowledge and expertise while sensitive, clear and very organised. She drew on a multitude of skills and cultures, which allowed her to work across disciplines very successfully.

She also had a rich personal hinterland and many at her funeral were surprised and gladdened to hear of an interest or a skill of which we knew little. Sue designed her own clothes. She designed and built her house in Shepherdess Walk, London, along with friends who became family, raising their children together under one roof. She also designed her singular career path and guided those of many others.

History will judge Sue kindly because she was right about so many of the big issues in healthcare strategy and design. The book – she co-wrote in 2000 for the Nuffield Trust – Building a 2020 Vision: future health care environments – set out a 20-year development strategy for the NHS, a design primer and an approach that grounded these in the context of broader social and public health structures. It identified and addressed virtually every element that forms the current debate about healthcare provision and reform. Had politicians and strategists followed her precepts, the country would be in much better health. Continue reading →

Healthcare Architect Needed for New Hospital in Georgia

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We have had an enquiry from a German-Georgian construction company based in Tbilisi, searching for a strategic partner for the planning and design of a new hospital in Georgia

The basic requirements are as follows:-

  • Services for preparation of design-cost estimation documentation for infectious pathology, HIV and clinical immunology located in Tbilisi / Georgia
  • Support needed for engineering-design services required for construction
  • Land plot area is 5 000 m2
  • Estimated rentable area of the design building(s) is 10 567 sqm
  • Design should provide for accommodation of 100 beds
  • Design-cost estimation documentation shall be prepared in line with construction norms and regulations effective in Georgia, and in accordance with European Standards.
  • The design-cost estimation documentation shall provide for the measures of adapting the building to the needs of disabled

If any members are interested in taking up this challenge please send your statement of interest to us at General Enquiries on our Contact page. Your details will be forwarded to the company for their information and action.

Ann Noble Obituary

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Ann Noble9th December 1942 – 9th December 2016

PhD, B Arch, MA Sociology,
Dip. Town Planning, RIBA

AfH Past President

An original founder member of Architects for Health, Former Chair and subsequently Life President, Dr Ann Noble has died peacefully after a long illness. She had a distinguished career in practice, teaching and lecturing internationally and had collaborated with and advised many leading practices including Ted Cullinan, SOM and HOK.

Ann Peerless was brought up in Somerset and studied at Bristol University, where she met her future husband, Paul, both reading architecture. She gained an MA in Sociology from the University of Essex in 1967, registered as an RIBA Chartered Architect in 1971, gained a Diploma in Town Planning from the then Polytechnic of Central London in 1974 and a PhD from Bristol in 1988.

Following three years working in Libya on social housing, Continue reading →

European Healthcare Design 2017

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VISIONING THE FUTURE:

DESIGNING FOR CHANGE IN PEOPLE-CENTRED HEALTH SYSTEMS

The European Healthcare Design 2017 – Call for Papers – have now been launched.
Organised by Architects for Health with SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange.

More information can be found here www.europeanhealthcaredesign.eu