2025 HCD Conference + Expo
Calling all interior designers and those looking for best practices and trends in interior design for healthcare spaces. The 2025 Healthcare Design Conference + Expo, Oct. 25-28 in Kansas City, Mo., will include a variety of educational sessions focused on interior design strategies from circadian lighting to flooring and materials selection.
Here’s a look at some of the sessions in this year’s Interior Design track; for the full conference line-up, visit hcdexpo.com.
E07 – Circadian Supportive Lighting – What Is It and How Do I Implement It?, Sunday, Oct. 26, 9:45-10:45 a.m.
This session offers guidance for designing circadian lighting, introducing melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance as a new metric. This presentation examines these standards, relevant research, and lessons learned from various circadian lighting projects. Learning objectives include understanding the health impacts of light exposure, communicating circadian entrainment factors, making informed design decisions, and accessing resources for guiding lighting design practices.
E18 – AAHID: Healthcare Flooring: Make it Last, Sunday, Oct. 26, 11 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
This presentation focuses on best practices in healthcare flooring, highlighting multi-attribute performance specifications including installation, maintenance, durability, warranty, and sustainability along with the effects of ultraviolet curing on various types of flooring. Attendees will review issues related to installation and flooring failures and understand key conflicts when preparing a multi-attribute specification.
E51 – Bringing the Entire Team with You: Means and Methods of Material Tracking for Transparency, Monday, Oct. 27, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Launched in 2020, HOK‘s Sustainable Material Tracking helps users to analyze embodied carbon, chemical hazards, and circularity. This data-driven initiative, led by 30 sustainable liaisons, empowers designers to integrate environmental and human health impacts. Attendees will come to understand methods for creating criteria and frameworks for tracking that can be implemented for multiple purposes as well as proven processes to collect this information.
Find updates and additional information on the 2025 HCD Conference + Expo here.
