{"id":2504,"date":"2022-11-28T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hda-architects.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2025-01-31T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:24:06","slug":"medical-advances-influence-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hda-architects.com\/medical-dental\/medical-advances-influence-design\/","title":{"rendered":"How Medical Advances Can Influence Your Practice’s Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

The job of a medical architect entails designing the layout and logistics of various healthcare establishments, including private practices, hospitals, and everything in between. Medical office architects have a particularly challenging job, especially considering the rate at which technology advances.<\/p>\n

It’s up to a medical clinic architect to coordinate with the owner of a specific practice specialty to be sure how certain technologies and medical advances are incorporated into the design. This has to be an efficient collaboration, considering the precision required for drawing up plans for the space that include all the latest cutting-edge equipment, in addition to other relevant construction elements.<\/p>\n

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A Mix of Demands<\/h2>\n

For the job of a medical architect, it’s not only changes in technology and equipment that play a significant role in the final building plans. A medical building architect must also consider patient comfort and safety, and computer\/network infrastructure. Advances in the medical industry aren’t the only changes that affect the finished blueprint- but new advances and top-tier technology in the medical construction industry itself.<\/p>\n

As we press forward, design trends with regard to patient health and eliminating the carbon footprint, designs become more intricate – often featuring larger-than-life elements or designs you thought were only possible in the movies – or at least, years and years away.<\/p>\n

In truth, the COVID pandemic was the catalyst for many of these utopian-like design elements finally emerging from paper and springing to life.<\/p>\n

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Medical Clinic Architect Industry Trends<\/h2>\n

What were previously concept designs suddenly began popping up in cities all over the country. You may have already had a chance to experience some of the following medical architect industry trends:<\/p>\n