Healthcare

Diverse Healthcare Facility Expertise

Hospitals & Free-standing Emergency Departments

When designing new hospitals and free-standing emergency departments, early engagement is critical. HEAPY collaborates closely with all stakeholders from the project’s inception. This ensures optimal site orientation, infrastructure planning, and the incorporation of sustainable design practices to enhance building performance and patient satisfaction while managing costs and meeting schedule targets.

Behavioral Health Facilities

HEAPY approaches behavioral health facilities with a dual focus on creating a therapeutic environment and ensuring safety and security to protect both patients and clinicians. Design considerations include non-ligature fixtures, durable equipment selection, and system layouts that are both unobtrusive and secure. Our approach creates a calm, healing space – balancing the needs of patients and their families, healthcare staff, and visitors.

Cancer Treatment Centers

Our expertise in designing cancer treatment centers is deeply rooted in a compassionate approach that balances functional excellence with a healing environment. Patients often spend hours inside treatment facilities, which is why we emphasize functional, unobtrusive design when it comes to HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems.

This helps create serene, spacious settings that foster comfort and privacy. Our designs also seamlessly integrate advanced technology systems, providing healthy distraction for patients and supporting efficient healthcare delivery for providers. In collaboration with our architectural and construction partners, every detail is crafted to support healing and dignity. Check out our latest articles focused on cancer center design best practices:

• Top 3 Cancer Center Design Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them  – HEAPY
• An Interview on Design Approach for Cancer Treatment Centers – HEAPY
• Top 5 Design Considerations for Modern Cancer Centers – HEAPY

Pediatric Healthcare & Children’s Hospitals

In designing pediatric healthcare facilities, HEAPY excels in creating environments that are not just functional, but also exceptionally nurturing and engaging for young patients. Our approach focuses on thoughtful integration of MEP systems that cater specifically to children, ensuring that technology, comfort, and care seamlessly blend to reduce anxiety and promote healing.

We create child-friendly spaces with elements like interactive lighting, playful designs, and adaptable environments that allow children a sense of control and familiarity. This includes innovative solutions such as noise-reducing features and advanced air quality systems that consider the health and safety of vulnerable patient populations. By collaborating closely with architects and healthcare providers, we ensure that every aspect of the facility is designed with the wellbeing and happiness of children in mind.

Academic Medical Centers

HEAPY excels at integrating sophisticated mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology systems that are crucial for complex environments that serve patients, healthcare providers, and students. Our designs emphasize sustainable practices, energy efficiency, and the adaptability needed to keep pace with technological advancements in both teaching and healthcare delivery, including simulation centers, laboratories, and research environments. By prioritizing adaptable MEP infrastructure and user-friendly technology systems, HEAPY helps academic medical centers meet their dual goals of education and patient care excellence.

Department of Veterans Affairs

HEAPY boasts more than 50 years of proven performance serving the Department of Veterans Affairs. Our team is intimately familiar with VA-specific standards and complex federal procurement processes, which allows us to consistently deliver high-quality engineering design and commissioning services. We are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of veterans through our work. Learn more about our expertise in the planning, design, and optimization of VA healthcare facilities.

Medical Office Buildings

When it comes to medical office buildings, flexibility and adaptability are key to accommodate both existing tenants and future space uses. To that end, our team focuses on creating strong infrastructure backbones that allow the space to be modified or expanded to meet future needs without complete replacement of equipment and systems. This allows the space to remain relevant for many years to come, improving return on investment and increasing the useful life of the facility.

Campus Asset Management Planning

Modern healthcare campuses must maintain existing facilities for decades while planning for future upgrades and expansions. HEAPY provides healthcare institutions with a strategic road map for current and future infrastructure investments, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission and vision. Our team offers comprehensive campus asset management planning that with help prioritize projects and outline appropriate project sequencing to maximize each dollar spent, ensuring long-term efficiency, reliability, and compliance for healthcare systems.