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Ft. St. John Looks at Hospital Mock-Up Rooms as Construction Continues

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 03:48 AM

Northern Health CEO Cathy Ulrich and NH Board member Dale Bumstead of Dawson Creek discuss equipment needs in recent tour of "mock-up" rooms
 
Fort St. John, B.C.- As the construction continues on the new Fort St. John Hospital and Residential Care facility, room “mock ups” are being set up.
 
Mock-up rooms are fully functional hospital rooms of different kinds that allow staff to get a feel for layout and to suggest changes and improvements relatively early in the design process.
 
When completed, the new facility will include a 55-bed acute care hospital and a 123-bed residential care facility, along with an integrated services centre for food, laundry and materiel services.
 
The hospital will also include two new operating rooms and an endoscopy suite and incorporate single-room maternity care.
 
The total project cost is $297.9 million.

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Can't they do this with computer modelling and a little imagination? Or are imagination and visualisation old school?
What a waste of resources.
metalman.
Computer simulation is not a very good replacement for this sort of input.

HOWEVER ..... having been involved with designing spaces for the use of employees in my past life, one has to be very careful with this kind of input.

One must remember to keep the generic user in mind when talking to individuals that happen to be working there now. People have a wide range of preferences. If one designs for one or a few individuals who happen to hold the position now, one often runs the danger of not accommodating people that will follow in their footsteps.

Guess who gets blamed. The designer or consultant who really should have known better.

There is nothing like an experienced designer who specializes in hospital architecture and planning, has done 10 hospitals before and has gone back to see how the designs have worked out and has a continuous design improvement plan in place to take advantage of the office expertise.

To me this is like a MyPG exercise. Design by committee.
BTW, notice the sharp coners on those light housings. Get someone a bit taller than her, move the table (which is likely on casters) away and one is looking to hit one's head on those.

Also, I am wondering what those controls on the wall are for. Don't look very reachable to me ......

But hey, that's her job, right? Need to mock these things up in such a way that obvious things will be commented on otherwise everyone will feel useless.

There is method to this madeness. LOL
Actually, wonder if they will have a mock up of a parking spot at the parkade under construction here to make sure we can get large vehicles in and out properly.
Gee, won't they be confused by the lack of a ceiling in the mock up room?
metalman.