Sector Overview
Healthcare Architects
From the importance of landscape to the detail of interiors, our sleeping, waking, home and working life should be predicated on avoiding stress, unhappiness, illness and pain.
This is of course even more pertinent in the Healthcare sector and the design of our healing environments provide the spaces needed to minimise length of stay, speed recovery, improve wellness and reduce the need for re-admission.
Neil Orpwood is our Head of Healthcare.
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Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC)
The centrepiece of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre co-locates business, industry and the public sector to work collaboratively to develop innovations to help people move and improve the nation’s quality of life, using Sheffield as a living lab. The new building includes 3800 m2 of specialised laboratory, research and office space to support world-leading research, and take services and products from concept to market.
Healthcare facilities that promote staff wellness and better patient care
Thoughtful Design and the desire to make spaces that improve lives, sits at the heart of every discipline within HLM Architects. In healthcare environments, thoughtful design is even more vital and we firmly place people at the centre of our design through our ‘Well Staff Better Patient’ approach.
For over 40 years, we have been designing award-winning healthcare projects that provide healing and therapeutic environments. Our extensive healthcare sector knowledge and expertise enables us to be both innovative and practical in our designs.
From the importance of landscape to the detail of the interior design, our Healthcare Architects understand the unique constraints required to deliver a healthcare facility.
We value the merits of standardisation for improved efficiencies, better safety during and after construction, along with the sustainability drivers for improved personal, global and planetary health. We weave these requirements together through an architecture that seeks to distract with delight, even during the most challenging of circumstances.
Our projects demonstrate the hard work, passion and deep thinking that our healthcare team have delivered on a wide range of demanding projects, all of which we are immensely proud.
Our Healthcare Approach
Health Creation
For sustained human health to be met, we need to improve our planet’s health to enable us to live longer with good food, fresh air and clean water. Creating healthy communities is key, not only does it enable us to live better lives, it reduces demands on our health service by building better working environments for our healthcare staff.
Through living better lives, we are more likely to make informed choices about how we live, taking control of our behaviours and acting more responsibly in order to live sustainably.
Prevention of Illness
Health Creation sets the context for communities to live better lives, which in turn provide the mechanisms that allow communities to access health services. At HLM, our healthcare design is centred around people to create better places, and better lives by default.
Allowing people to keep well at home and easily access health
services in the local community helps people to live longer, healthier lives, and reduces the demand and delays in acute treatment.
Treatment
The role of the acute hospital is to provide treatment of serious conidtions and ill health and has been the subject of great change over the years, from the large district general hospitals before the PFI era to the smaller trauma centres of today.
Throughout this changing landscape, HLM’s ethos of ‘Thoughtful Design’ has been consistent in producing buildings that have patient, staff and visitors at their heart. Through our approach of carefully listening and responding to our clients’ requirements, we deliver healing and therapeutic environments where patients feel better and staff morale is improved.
Healthcare architecture means improving the general wellbeing of our employees, clients and building users.