HDR on Healthcare’s Top 2020 Design Challenges

Healthcare, and wellbeing in all its forms, feels like it’s permanently notched at the top of our minds. COVID-19 has people and organizations the world over rethinking what being healthy means, how best to stay healthy and safe, and the dichotomy between public and personal health. For the second issue of our “Healthcare & Wellbeing” themed October, we reached out to the designers at HDR, which ranks as the #1 healthcare architecture firm on Building Design + Construction’s 2019 Giants 300 Report, to talk about how our healthcare environments are designed today, and how they might be designed in the future. Eric Meub, Design Director at HDR Los Angeles, talks shop. “The number one thing we’ve been doing in the last six months is listening to our clients. Healthcare organizations are having a lot of different experiences in relation to the pandemic; some are struggling, some are failing, and some …