Automation, Controls Leading Concerns for Hospital Engineers and Designers
Meagan Gibbs, healthcare engineering market sector leader and mechanical engineer at HDR, recently participated in a roundtable discussion.
Gibbs explored the healthcare landscape, alongside three other industry experts. Their commentary explores the complex, interrelated challenges of designing modern hospitals, emphasising how regulatory compliance, safety, resiliency and sustainability shape every engineering decision.
The series underscores growing priorities around flexibility, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and resilient infrastructure. Collectively, showing how multidisciplinary coordination and resilient design approaches are critical to delivering hospitals that are safe, compliant, efficient and capable of evolving alongside healthcare delivery models.
Following the roundtable discussion, Consulting-Specifying Engineer published a number of articles:
- What Codes Standards Keep Hospital Designers Up at Night
- Key Considerations for Fire and Life Safety in Hospitals
- Design Health Care Facilities with Energy Efficiency and Flexibility in Mind
- Best Practices for Designing HVAC in Health Care Hospital Buildings
- Electrical Lighting Designers Offer Solutions to Challenges in Hospitals
- Automation Controls Leading Concerns for Hospital Engineers and Designers
- Where Does Sustainability Play a Role in Hospitals?
