Leveraging Metrics and Operations for Smarter Clinical Laboratory Design
AIAU25-AAH01
Included in subscription
1.0
LU|HSW
Live course date: 02/11/2025 | 02:00 PM
Description
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | 2:00-3:00pm EST
Designing clinical laboratories requires both operational insight and architectural strategy to create safe, flexible, and efficient spaces. This course will equip you with the essential knowledge and tools to translate benchmarking data and operational workflows into effective clinical lab design solutions.
Explore how space allocation, planning ratios, clinical lab benchmarks, and operational workflows establish a foundation for programming and design. Learn to optimize your design layout by aligning with best practices, accommodating hazardous materials, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Examine real-world case studies to gain practical insights for designing clinical labs that optimize hospital performance and improve patient outcomes.
Learning Objectives
Understand benefits of benchmarking data to support early programming and spatial planning in clinical lab design.
Analyze the influence of operational workflows on lab layout to optimize functionality and efficiency within clinical laboratories.
Identify safety and regulatory considerations in lab design, to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Consider flexibility and future-proofing strategies in clinical lab spaces, to accommodate evolving needs within healthcare environments.
Presented in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).
Rosemary is a University of Kansas Master of Architecture graduate and has a decade of experience in healthcare architecture. She is currently a project manager at ACI Boland Architects in Kansas City and specializes in freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Jeff has more than 20 years of experience in biosafety program assessment, development and implementation and facility operations. His unique background in microbiology and public health includes helping build a comprehensive biological safety program while working at Georgia State University. He also was responsible for managing nearly 100 laboratories including BSL-2, BSL-3 and BSL-4 facilities. Jeff has been involved in several A/BSL-3 facility planning and programming activities across the US, Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, working for various Ministries of Health and Agriculture to address basic and applied research in public health and emerging infectious diseases. Jeff also is an instructor, teaching scientists and facility planners how to apply science and scientific practices into lab operations and facility design.
Lee is a senior laboratory planner with experience in a wide breadth of lab types and has worked in roles spanning programming to construction administration. Lee specializes in clinical laboratories, and helps users lean up their laboratories through a collaborative effort resulting in a comprehensive program and design. She is passionate about laboratory advancement, pushing lab design and planning so it continues to evolve and adapt as science progresses. Lee studies the intersection between architecture and science and brings detail and precision to every project she touches.