Devereux Architects can offer a wide range of services to healthcare client organisations. These include:
– Studies, architectural design and tender documents for all types of new healthcare facilities, including acute secondary and specialist tertiary hospitals, primary care health centres and community hospitals and mental health units.
– Project Management: Our team can manage all stages of the project through briefing, feasibility, design, tender, evaluation of tenders and award to contractors. By establishing new project management procedures we can help to speed up and improve the execution of projects, supervision, quality assurance and control.
– Strategies for future clinical/service requirements looking 5-10 years or longer to the future and the resulting requirements for hospital or healthcare facilities.
– Masterplanning of existing or proposed sites to consider how hospitals and sites can be developed most effectively and surplus site areas can be released for maximum financial benefit.
– Asset use and how expensive building assets can be used more efficiently and intensively.
– Specific services undergoing change: service changes that result in the need for facilities to be reorganised or renewed, eg. emergency services, inpatient wards (privacy and dignity) and decontamination.
– Condition appraisals and survey to assess existing facilities and their condition and functional suitability.
– Renewal or refurbishment plans for existing facilities that need to be upgraded to current standards or for new uses.
– Property rationalisation and divestments where hospital facilities or sites are underused, working with Trusts and other property advisers to assist in reducing the Trusts assets and therefore costs.
– Improving the patient experience, patient environments and privacy and dignity through redesign and improvements to existing facilities, interior design, art and landscape design.
– New technology provision such as diagnostic imaging (MRI, PET, CT), linear accelerators, proton therapy, gamma knifes and cath labs.
– PPP (Public Private Partnerships) technical advice for the client. Assisting with preparation for bid processes and evaluating bids. Monitoring the design and construction.
– Office workplace and support facility rationalisations: consideration of the best use of space allocated to non clinical functions.
– Site supervision using high calibre staff to provide site supervision ensuring proper execution of each project’s design and specification.