Architects For Health

Don't miss our last two in-person events of the year! #architectsforhealth #healthcaredesign #futureleaders #networking

Our third and final 'Future Leaders' event for 2024 is now ready to book! On Thursday 7th November, we'll be shining a spotlight on 'responsible leadership' and what it means to be an architect in an age dominated by standards and safety. Three perspectives will be provided by Jenni Bronock - Healthcare Project Lead for Perkins&Will, Matt Dagworthy - Commercial Director, Specialist Door Solutions Ltd and Rachel Birchmore, Coach and Consultant, AreBe AreBe and #StepUp, with a lively Q&A to follow. Future Leader events are open to all AfH member organisations and members are actively encouraged to bring along junior healthcare team members who are new to AfH. Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eccsqBwM #leadership #builtenvironment #healthcaredesign #standards #architectsforhealth

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the Architects for Health Networking Area, Stand and Member Gallery at this years' IHEEM (The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management) Healthcare Estates 2024 - 8th and 9th October - Manchester Central. It was - quite literally - bigger and better than ever! AfH exists to bridge the gap between academia, architecture and the NHS and our 750 strong membership represents virtually every discipline working in healthcare design, with the client - and the patient- at the very heart. This year's talks and gallery showcased some incredible work being delivered, in construction and on the drawing board, and it's a pleasure to share our members showcase here, so you can see it one more time. We are hoping to share more presentation resources with AfH #Members via the website in the coming days, so watch this space!

Day 1 of the IHEEM (The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management) #HCEstates2024 event went like a flash! Thrilled with how popular the new AfH Networking Area was, with our lunch & learn event playing to a packed crowd. Our MIND and MEND Stream talks were equally popular in the Design and Contractors Theatre (standing room only) - plus some great engagement with members and NHS Trusts who can now join AfH for free! If you’re attending today, do come and see us at Stand H1 and enjoy the brilliant showcase of healthcare work on offer this year. You can also join our MEND Stream session, hosted by Caroline Mulholland and lunch & learn talks from Medical Architecture, SDS and Hannah Chamberlain FRSA of the Design in Mental Health Network. Jaime Bishop will be steering the conversation. Huge thanks to our vibrant membership for their continued commitment and contribution, and to our wonderful stand sponsor, Health Spaces and Networking Area sponsor, Specialist Door Solutions Ltd for making it possible. Lastly, a big thank you to long term supporters, Teal HealthCare for kitting out our new networking area with sofas - they’ll be a very welcome comfy chair today we’re sure!

Delighted to share our brand new AfH Newsletter. Issue 1 is a Healthcare Estates special showcasing all the incredible content we've curated across the 7th - 9th October. We look forward to seeing you there!

A huge thank you to Stride Treglown Bristol for being wonderful hosts at yesterday's Future Leaders event. A really insightful session drawing out some of the challenges - and opportunities - to design for well being, reduce our carbon footprint and unpack social value in health and social care settings. Balancing the need to measure what's measurable (using financial and carbon metrics), alongside the more intangible benefits of good design - happier, healthier communities and a longer term public health benefit - was made clear by our speakers, Robert Delius, Jack Millard and Petronella Tyson. As an industry, we have an opportunity to collaborate - gathering the evidence needed to ensure every design delivers greater environmental, social and community benefit, and investment focuses not just on bricks and mortar but on longer term (and perhaps more intangible) public health outcomes. Thank you to Gerflor UK & Ireland , Stride Treglown and Specialist Door Solutions Ltd for your support and a huge thank you to Simon Boundy for hosting and Linda Jordan for leading the session. #evidencebaseddesign #wellbeing #socialvalue #architectsforhealth

There's still time to book a space at our 'On Test' session with KwickScreen and Arjo this Thursday! Kwickscreen's new 'Ideal Healthcare Environments showroom gives design teams and clients the opportunity to test out a range of healthcare spaces and understand how they work from the perspective of both patient and clinical team. The team will be leading an interactive session covering the following key spaces: ● Waiting area / reception desk ● Treatment room ● Consultants office ● Staff relaxation area ● Education / Classroom ● Infusion chairs ● Corridor (Hospital spec) ● Acute care individual bedroom ● Individual bedroom with en-suite This experience is open to ALL AfH #Member Organisations and you can book your place online at: https://lnkd.in/euJeAmmN

There are only a few spaces remaining at our Bristol Future Leaders event, which takes place this Wednesday at the studio of Stride Treglown in Bristol and ***today is the last day to book.*** Joining us for our 2nd #nextgen event of 2024 will be Petronella Tyson of Greengage Environmental Ltd; Jack Millard of Hoare Lea, and Robert Delius of Stride Treglown. Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/e4KPjbEc We're really looking forward to seeing you there! Event kindly sponsored by: Gerflor UK & Ireland Gradus Limited, Specialist Door Solutions Ltd and Stride Treglown

We're delighted to welcome Petronella Tyson of Bristol-based consultancy, Greengage Environmental Ltd to join us for the next AfH Future Leaders event. Petronella will be sharing her thoughts on the social benefits of healthy design, covering: 🍏The role of the built environment in our health & wellbeing 🍏Embedding health & wellbeing (including social infrastructure) into design 🍏 Measuring and reporting on the impacts of design on the community as a contribution to long term wellbeing (and saving to the state). To find out more, please join us on Wednesday 18th September. For full details and to book your place, visit:https://lnkd.in/e4KPjbEc Thanks to our hosts Stride Treglown, Gerflor UK & Ireland | Gradus Limited and Specialist Door Solutions Ltd for supporting us in bringing #nextgen design teams together. #FutureLeaders #Bristol #HealthcareDesign

Design Matters is back! This year, we're delighted to welcome speakers from Medical Architecture, Cullinan Studio and BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) to join us for our annual Design Matters event on Wednesday 25th September in London. Celebrating winners from the 2024 European Healthcare Design Awards, (hosted by AFH in partnership with SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange) - this is a great opportunity to get the full story on three incredible schemes, and grill (nicely!) the architects on how they made it happen. Places are limited and booking fast so don't miss out. Full details on the AfH website at: https://lnkd.in/emuxGQzG Huge thanks to Gerflor UK & Ireland Gradus Limited for sponsoring this event and to the BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) team for hosting.