Small but Mighty: Neglected Rooms to Make or Break Your Hospital Design
Learn how the design of back-of-house spaces in health care facilities impacts efficiency, functionality, and operational costs, and discover best practices to enhance your next project.
About the live course
Health care buildings are often defined by popular, income-generating spaces—patient rooms, operating rooms, imaging rooms, and grand public spaces. These rooms create an image that is presented to patients and the public and thus define the character of the building. But what about the other required spaces that are essential to the building’s functions? Without attention to detail, the failure to design these spaces properly will result in a building that is inefficient for users and costly for operators. Join presenters to look at the successes and failures of back-of-house rooms in health care buildings and learn how their design can impact your next project.
Learning objectives
- Examine the good and bad designs of back-of-house rooms in health care facilities—medication rooms, environmental services closets, equipment rooms, kitchens, locker rooms, break rooms, and more.
- Identify the design secrets to making back-of-house support spaces more functional and efficient.
- Learn best practices on the programming and design of back-of-house hospital spaces.
- Review successful prototype examples to serve as a benchmark against your future work.
AIA Leadership Summit 2025 is the premier advocacy and leadership training event for AIA chapter leaders. The annual event is always one of AIA’s best attended leadership events—offering attendees a
