Involving Local Design Professionals                                                                        


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Our services focus on determining the interior medical environment of the facility – something we are exceptionally good at, and can’t be matched locally.  At the same time, your local design and construction professionals are in a better position to know your local building codes and construction environment.  The best projects apply our leadership and expertise through medical planning and preliminary health regulatory approval; then follow with locally directed engineering, construction document preparation, and construction phase services.

Your local design professionals (Architect, Engineer, or qualified builder) will be responsible for all construction detail, engineering issues, and Construction Documentation. We provide all the medical planning expertise necessary for the efficient development of a cost-effective facility – and remain available to provide guidance to other design professionals throughout the remainder of the development process.

design INTEGRITY FACILITATION & ASSESSMENT services streamline and focus the efforts of local design professionals – the purpose being to facilitate effective and complete adherence to design intent through completion of the Architect’s/Engineers’ construction documents.

 This phase of development, immediately following completion of “Spatial Design Development”, typically includes:

·        Project handoff meeting with the Client and local design professionals responsible for the remainder of project development.  The meeting will serve to assure the understanding of the local professional(s) regarding the purpose of the facility, design considerations through schematic design, and the regulatory status of the work (considerations and reviews to date, remaining tasks / areas of responsibility, etc.).·        Review of up to two progress sets of Construction Documents to assess conformance with Schematic Design intent, the local professionals’ performance of regulatory conformance responsibilities, and integration of fixed medical &/or building service equipment

·       Periodic (up to three) document development meetings with Architect and Engineers to identify deviations from design intent, and establish owner acceptable alternatives

·        Review of up to two progress sets of Construction Documents to assess conformance with Schematic Design intent, the local professionals’ performance of regulatory conformance responsibilities, and integration of fixed medical &/or building service equipment

·    On-call availability to facilitate resolution of issues identified during the local professionals’ work, relative to unforeseen obstacles to effective completion of the desired facility design and/or regulatory approval.