Robins & Morton has released its second-annual State of Healthcare Construction Report, sharing cross-industry perspectives on the challenges impacting healthcare clients, designers, builders and trade contractors. The 2022 report shines a spotlight on three focused topics in the industry.
1. Cost and supply management
Among the takeaways from the report’s contributors are new insights on how teams can help clients creatively manage rising costs, supply chain disruption and materials shortages. Interestingly, the urgency to quickly build field hospitals in the early months of the pandemic helped prepare the industry to respond quickly and creatively to today’s crises. These rapidly delivered projects ushered in new levels of continuous learning that now help teams apply alternative solutions to help mitigate cost and supply issues.
2. Building envelope risk and resilience
The complexity connected with modern structures, combined with the opportunity for achieving long-term energy and operations savings, places the topic of building envelope resilience into a new light for healthcare leaders in 2022. The report describes why building envelope decisions extend beyond code requirements to identify and capture long-term opportunities for futureproofing hospital facilities. The objective is to make informed decisions having a lasting impact on building resilience, patient and staff safety and service continuity.
3. Trust-based collaboration lessons
The pandemic experience of the past two years demonstrated the importance of responding to the human side of the business for all parties in healthcare construction. Research on successful team collaboration confirms that when organizations create a team culture that values open dialogue and mutual respect, team members thrive. Recruitment and retention also thrives, the report contributors said, when everyone is credited for their role in a project’s success.
To learn more, download the 2022 edition of the State of Healthcare Construction Report from the Robins & Morton website.
