AIA AAH Case Study Library & Benchmarking - Collective Design Intelligence
AIAU26-AAH06
Included in subscription
1
LU|HSW
Live course date: 09/08/2026 | 02:00 PM
Description
The AIA /AAH Case Study Library, led by the Research Initiatives Committee, transforms award-winning healthcare projects into a shared, practical resource - enabling design decisions that improve patient safety, clinical outcomes, and user well-being. By standardizing and centralizing peer-reviewed case studies, it helps teams quickly identify strategies, benchmark performance, and make more confident decisions to drive smarter design and stronger outcomes across the industry. Examples will focus on how documented design strategies relate to patient safety, staff workflows, and overall user experience in healthcare settings.
Learning Objectives
Understand how the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) and its Research Initiatives Committee develop knowledge resources that inform healthcare planning and design decisions impacting patient safety and well-being.
Learn how to access and navigate the Case Study Library to identify design strategies, spatial relationships, and considerations relevant to health, safety, and welfare in healthcare environments.
Explore case studies to understand how planning, layouts, and design features influence patient safety, wayfinding, staff travel distances, staff workflows, and user experience.
Discover how benchmarking supports more informed design decisions that improve safety, performance, and equitable access in healthcare environments.
Presented in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).

After years in large firm executive management positions and successfully leading large project teams as HDR's PNW Managing Principal & Director at Perkins Will, Marjorie now helps firms develop business plans that leverage their own unique talents and value. Her Healthcare design solutions are steered by community health & wellness outcomes, calming experiences, a sustainable future and dedicated owners that taught her to listen. She helped draft the NCARB Analysis of Practice Industry survey, sits on their Leadership Institute and the Futures Collaborative Committee 2022-2026. At the 2023 Futures Symposium she moderated the Impact of AI on the Architectural Industry panel and helped develop NCARBs future competencies. At the 2025 Symposium she moderated a panel on the Impact of Neuroscience on Wellbeing in Architectural Design and HSW’s changing definition. Marjorie chairs the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Research Initiatives committee, leading the development of benchmarking protocols and metrics on award winning projects presenting at HCD 2020-26.
Molly Storrs is a Project Architect at Savely Healthcare Architects, where she works with healthcare organizations to translate clinical, operational, and community needs into design solutions. Molly’s approach to healthcare design has been shaped by work across diverse environments and delivery models, partnering with public and private healthcare organizations on projects ranging from acute care and ambulatory facilities to behavioral health. She brings a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to healthcare design, enriched by a multidisciplinary background in historic preservation, landscape architecture, and sustainable design to create environments that support healing, connection, and long-term adaptability.
Molly earned both her Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She has been an active member of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Research Initiatives Committee since 2022, and currently serves as co-chair of their Webinar Sub-committee, where she helps advance the use of research and benchmarking to inform healthcare design. In 2025, Molly joined several fellow Research Initiatives Committee members in contributing to the HFM Magazine article “The Ambulatory Shift: The Need for Better Benchmarking.” Her experience in evidence-based design and commitment to advancing industry knowledge make her a valued contributor to conversations that bridge research and practice.
Hannah Moss is a Healthcare Fellow at Flad Architects in Tampa, where she focuses on healthcare design and medical planning. She recently earned her Master of Architecture, specializing in Architecture + Health, from Clemson University. Her current research explores how access to nature and outdoor spaces can support the well-being of patients, families, and staff. Hannah also serves as Co-Chair of the AIA/AAH Case Study Library, where she helps benchmark award-winning healthcare projects.
Luke Chung earned a Master of Architecture + Health degree from Clemson University, where he became involved with the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) committee, contributing to healthcare case study initiatives and continuing his active engagement with the organization today. Currently a Medical Planner at ZGF with two years of professional experience, Luke has contributed to a wide range of healthcare projects, from outpatient clinics to large-scale hospitals. His work also focuses heavily on healthcare benchmarking, driven by a strong interest in leveraging data and research to understand how healthcare design can enhance patient safety, support staff wellbeing, and improve the overall user experience.
Zack Chung graduated from Clemson University with a Master of Architecture + Health degree. During his time at Clemson, he joined the AIA AAH committee to support their case study efforts and has remained an active member ever since. Now a Medical Planner at ZGF with two years of experience, Zack has worked on a diverse range of projects spanning from clinics to hospitals. He also plays a significant role in healthcare benchmarking and is deeply passionate about utilizing data and research to evaluate how healthcare design can improve patient safety, staff wellbeing, and the overall user experience.
Mary Beth Welty has been an AIA/AAH Research Committee member since 2020 and helped to originate the clinic benchmarking subcommittee in 2021. A healthcare planner with 10+ years of experience in over 80 different inpatient and outpatient departments ranging from behavioral health to ambulatory care and multiprocedural specialty clinics, she has been critical to the AIA/AAH clinic benchmarking effort. For 9 years she has led benchmarking processes and Evidenced Based Design research efforts both within the AIA and in her role as a healthcare planner. Mary Beth is an expert at leveraging efficiencies and software to streamline workflows and solve problems. She is passionate about benchmarking healthcare projects because she knows that it allows our industry to better understand the data we already have by analyzing current and past spaces and using that information to help inform our future projects and is excited about the potential knowledge and ideas that benchmarking projects can provide.