Full Paper AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LINK BETWEEN HEALTH CARE FACILITY DESIGN AND SERVICE PROVISION

Health facilities represent a significant investment in infrastructure and national wellbeing. Health facilities also represent a unique and complex building type that involves many user groups and consultants, a concentrated use of engineering services, and intense twenty-four hour a day use. In common with other large infrastructure projects, the construction of a major health facility is a relatively infrequent and significant event that generally requires the application of complex briefing strategies and non-traditional procurement methods. This has the potential to decrease the efficiency of the design, documentation and construction process, and increase the unpredictability of project outcomes unless each new project is systematically recorded and that data used to inform future projects. This is not presently the situation