HCD Guest Author

Authors Hank Adams, AIA, and Chuck Armstrong, AIA, from the new Parkland Hospital design team of HDR + Corgan, share the process their team went through to create the facility's master plan in HEALTHCARE DESIGN 's four-part online exclusive series. The design team simultaneously executed both the master planning and hospital schematic design processes to achieve a completely integrated design solution. In the first installment of the series, Adams and Armstrong discuss the guiding principles of the master plan and the charrette design.

Although there has always been the professional level of communication needed to plan, design, and build a healthcare facility, the rapid development of technology, shrinking budgets, and abbreviated timelines have brought the message home that everyone is going to have to play on the same team.

The New Parkland Hospital Master Plan

The New Parkland Hospital project in Dallas is a $1.27-billion healthcare campus that includes replacement of the existing 56-year-old Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Parkland campus is located within the Southwestern Medical District and serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine.

Neurological diseases such as autism, cerebral palsy, and Rett syndrome affect more than 1 billion people worldwide, including 300 million children. In a pioneering move, Texas Children's Hospital opened the world's first basic research institute dedicated to childhood neurological diseases and is bringing together a multidisciplinary team of geneticists, biologists, neurobiologists, physicists, behavioral scientists, computer scientists, and mathematicians under one roof to unlock the mysteries of childhood neurological diseases.

.Project Summary

Completion Date: Phased opening (January through June 2011)

Owner: Phoenix Children's Hospital

Architecture, Interior Design, and Structural

Engineering: HKS, Inc.

Construction Manager: Kitchell Contractors

Civil Engineering: Evans Kuhn & Associates

MEP Engineering: ccrd partners

Programming: Blue Cottage Consulting

Telecommunications: Sparling

Landscaping: Site Design Group/Talley Associates

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