Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure: Open Building in Practice eBook

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Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are designed. If functions and practices are subject to alteration, the standard approach of defining required functions and practices before acquiring facilities is obsolete. We need other starting points, working methods, and ways of collaborating. Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure presents these new approaches. Advocating an infrastructure theory of built environment transformation in which design and investment decisions are organized hierarchically and transcend short-term use, the book draws the practice and research of a number of architects from around the world. Written by experts with experience in policy making, designing, building, and managing complex healthcare environments, it shows professionals in architecture, engineering, healthcare and facilities management how to enhance the long-term usefulness of their campuses and their building stock and how to strengthen their physical assets with the capacity to accommodate a quickly evolving healthcare sector.

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9780815367840, 9781351256407

Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure: Open Building in Practice 1st Edition and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure are 9781351256384, 1351256386 and the print ISBNs are 9780815367857, 0815367856. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780815367840, 9781351256407.