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Healthcare designers’ use of prescriptive and performance-based approaches

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posted on 2016-07-25, 14:16 authored by Nadeeshani Wanigarathna, F. Sherratt, Andrew Price, Simon Austin
In the UK, healthcare built environment design is guided by a series of long established design standards and guidance issued by the Department of Health. More recently, healthcare design focus has broadened to encompass new approaches, supported by large bodies of credible research evidence. It is therefore timely to rethink how healthcare design standards and guidance should be best expressed to suit ‘designerly ways’ of using evidence, to improve their use and effectiveness in practice. This research explored how designers use performance and prescriptive approaches during the healthcare design process. Three in-depth healthcare built environment case studies were used to explore how designers employed such approaches during the design of selected exemplar design elements. Results show that design elements in the pre and conceptual design phases significantly employed performance based approaches, and due to project-unique circumstances, prescriptive solutions were often significantly modified based on performance criteria. For design elements in the detailed and technical design phases, there was significant use of solutions based on prescriptive approaches, whilst performance-based criteria were used to evaluate design solutions. This research proposes a performance-based, specification driven healthcare design with supplementary prescriptive specifications provided for optimum healthcare environment design.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Architectural Engineering and Design Management Journal

Citation

Wanigarathna, N. ...et al., 2016. Healthcare designers’ use of prescriptive and performance-based approaches. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 12 (6), pp. 427-441.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-07-05

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Architectural Engineering and Design Management on 03 Aug 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2016.1212692

ISSN

1745-2007

eISSN

1752-7589

Language

  • en