The Workshop
Prefabrication and modular construction are among the biggest trends in healthcare today, and by the look of their current trajectories, they are here to stay. There are many advantages, and challenges, when incorporating this type of construction into current and new healthcare design projects.
This virtual, interactive, collaborative and problem-solving workshop is designed to help project stakeholders (designers, facility executives, administrators, and care providers) explore the key tenets of prefabrication and modular construction, how the benefits of “better, cheaper, faster” are balanced with quality and safety, and how design/build processes and budgets can be reframed from traditional healthcare design/build projects.
Through presentations, case studies and conversations, attendees will gain insights into the latest developments in the field and understand the advantages and challenges of the prefabrication/modular approach. Attendees will also benefit from interactive exercises with fellow attendees and faculty where they get the chance to share questions and ideas with the owners, faculty, and solution providers throughout the event.
Agenda
Welcome Opening Remarks & Introductions
Thomas Jung, M.Arch, Member, Board of Directors, The Center for Health Design
The Journey to Modular Design - Benefits and Challenges
Keith Novenski, Director Transformational Design, Indigenous Pact PBC, Inc.
Panel of Experts
Panelists:
Nora C. Colman, MD, Critical Care Medicine Physician, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/ Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Roger C. McClean, Director, Design+Construction, Facilities Management, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nancy Hanright, Sr. Director, Real Estate & Capital Planning, Boston Medical Center
A Comparison of DFMA and Other Prefabrication Concepts
Laura Longoria, Design & Construction Director/Principal Health Sector, Henderson Engineers
Ambulatory Care Centers: Community Input and a Modular Approach
Michael Saint Clair, Associate VP/Senior Planner, CRTKL
Panel – Solution Providers and Partners
Panelists:
Will Lichtig, Chief of Staff, Executive Vice President, The Boldt Company
Dan Carlton, President, Mark III Construction
Andrea V Hyde, NCIDQ, MDCID, HCID, Senior Project Manager – Interiors, Stanford Health Care – Planning Design + Construction
Case Study: The Montage Health Ohana Center
Daphne Corona, Senior Associate, Project Manager, NBBJ
Laurie Chambers, Senior Architect, NBBJ
International Perspectives
Troy Savage, Associate Project Manager, Mazzetti
Steve Carr, ACHE, AIA, NCARB, Principal, Lead Design Architect and Health Studio Thought Leader, TREANORHL
Willy Schlein, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Associate Principal, Healthcare Practice Leader, LS3P
Experts
Tom Jung has over 30 years in the healthcare design field, with a primary focus on regulatory compliance and coordination. Spending 24 years with the New York State Department of Health’s Certificate of Need Program, Tom directed the effort for 16 of those years while overseeing the review and approval of more than $2 billion dollars of new projects annually. He is a founding member of The Center for Health Design’s Environmental Standards Council, and attributes that first and ongoing experience as a major influence on the nature of his communication with the designers and providers seeking state licensure.
Tom has also been intimately involved with development of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities since 1997, including Facilities Guidelines Institute board membership between 2003 and 2014, and served as CEO of the Facility Guidelines Institute for one year, stepping down in February 2015. He presently consults with a select number of clients on a limited basis.
Keith Novenski is an expert in creating Healing Spaces – particularly those that provide access to care and services for anyone in need, without restrictions or expectations. In fact, creating accessible and intentional spaces is what drives Keith every day; he gleans joy by drawing on his background that incorporates project management, Human-Centered Design, and thinking through a Blue Ocean Strategy (the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to open a new market space and create new demand).
Keith’s passion and enthusiasm for space design is contagious, and clients and team members alike often respond with excitement and hope about creating spaces that heal: “As the exchange of design continues, the momentum builds and fills me with joy as we empower our clients to bring beauty, health, and healing to their communities.”
Beginning his day walking in nature helps Keith connect himself to the space around him, which subsequently allows him to connect with Indigenous Pact team members, vendors, and clients more mindfully and effectively. Keith has spent 20 years within the healthcare system – leading new business development, working through obstacles, problem solving, and implementing innovative solutions.
Over his career, he has developed faithful relationships with vendors – further enhancing the developmental work our clients need. Keith’s background in building, construction, and design as well as his certification in Peaceful Leadership & Nonviolent Communication ground his expertise in planning, developing, and implementing tight deadlines and strict budgets. This proficiency is most evident in Keith’s contribution to Indigenous Pact’s flagship healing space: We Care Daily Clinics for the Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington.
Keith explains that he was motivated to join the Indigenous Pact team when he heard founder and CEO, Kurt Berkus, speak of his dream to impact lives positively and to bring revenue into Tribal Nations with a focus on improving health outcomes for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Keith’s success is – in part – a product of his ability to cultivate wisdom (knowing when to speak and when to listen with intention) and to honor diverse cultures with reverence.
Nora is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics in the division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Her research focuses on the delivery of quality and patient safety-focused simulation. She has extensive experience in leading system wide initiatives where simulation has been used as vehicle to meet system wide quality goals. She is also passionate about the role of simulation as a means to proactively identify latent safety threats in new healthcare design. Her strong clinical background coupled with simulation and patient safety experience allows her to impact patient care in multiple facets.
Nancy Hanright is the Senior Director of Real Estate and Capital Planning for Boston Medical Center Health System, a 514-bed academic medical health consortium and the largest safety net hospital in New England. In that role, she provides strategic space planning for inpatient, ambulatory, and administrative areas as well as manages the hospital’s system real estate portfolio. She oversees move and transition planning as well as wayfinding, accessibility compliance and furnishings.
Nancy is a Fellow of the America’s Essential Hospital’s leadership development program. She is also a member of the BMC Incident Command Team and has earned certifications from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness for mass casualty incident training. She is Vice President of the Association of Medical Facility Professionals as well as founding member of the Professional Women in Construction’s Advisory Board (Boston Chapter) on which she still serves today. Nancy has presented at multiple healthcare planning and design conferences with topics as diverse as “Accessibility at BMC,” “Phased Renovations in an Acute Care Setting,” and “Prioritizing, Managing & Designing Behavioral Health Spaces.”
For Laura, there’s nothing more important than exceptional client service. Since joining Henderson Engineers in 2005, Laura has honed her skills as an electrical designer and program manager working closely with several of our largest healthcare clients. She enjoys forming long-term connections with clients and is a fierce proponent of teamwork when tackling any challenges that arise.
As a principal and our health sector design and construction director, she is passionate about continuous development and has offered support and mentorship to dozens of younger engineers and designers. Laura also serves as a member of Henderson’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council. Regardless of the task at hand, Laura brings her unique perspective to the table and everyone she works with is better for it.
Will Lichtig is Chief of Staff and Executive Vice President at Boldt. Will has worked with teams to develop and implement lean process for target value design, lean production planning and control, Built in Quality, lean problem solving, and other key processes that provide innovative approaches to project delivery. He also provides leadership coaching to project teams as they develop the wherewithal to deliver projects using lean methods. He is an recognized leader in the lean and integrated project delivery movements. He has been at the forefront in the development of Integrated Lean Project Delivery® process. He is a Board member and past Chairman of the Lean Construction Institute.
Dan Carlton is the visionary behind Mark III’s mission to lead the evolution of construction. As President and majority owner of Mark III Construction and it’s respective LLC’s (M3 MEP, M3 Service, and M3 Components) he is responsible for all strategic and business aspects of the companies. Dan has been the vision and strategic leader behind M3’s components business and will stop at nothing until we have exposed the world to a new way to build.
Andrea is the proud daughter of a dedicated 50-year ICU / CCU Cardiac Nurse & a 30-Year Army Colonel and pre-Kaizan “Gilbrethian” trained era process improvement driven Industrial Engineer for the US military complex who both greatly influenced her to devote her entire facility design & planning career on the safety, functional and operational improvement of Healthcare and Science Facilities. Andrea despises waste!
After working within and being well mentored by the top healthcare Mid-Atlantic region A/E/C Firms - She successfully started her own Healthcare design firm (Hyde Incorporated) at the age of 33, which over 16 years she grew to gain national and then international in the Middle East Region recognition.
She was past Chairman of the Maryland Chapter of American Society of Interior Designers – sitting on National Healthcare facility committees and roles for the organization,
She selected to be the first Interior Designer on the FGI Guidelines - Healthcare Guidelines Revision Committee (FGI-HGRC) where she founded the Surfaces & Furnishings Sub-Committee writing standards of performance for Healthcare Surfaces and Furnishings currently found in in all current editions of the FGI.
She led the Maryland State Certified Interior Design Legislative Coalition – regularly presenting on key built environment improvement bills to MD legislative bodies & committees
Her many clients and employers include US and foreign Government Agencies and top ten Healthcare and University Organizations planning and design billions of dollars of SF of award-winning research, outpatient, inpatient & Senior living environments over her long career.
She has spent the last 12 years while working within the planning design and construction departments of three top rated level health provider organizations incepting and facilitating extensive in-depth technical research, testing & development toward the creation of a fully Per-fabricated multi-manufacturer contributed Integrated Modular System Concept for Med/Science Tenant Improvement Fit-out. Her life’s work goal is to use this proven innovation work to change and substantially improve the outcome paradigms for Health and Science interiors tenant interior fit out forever!
Daphne Corona is a project manager with 17 years of experience with a specialty in healthcare design. She has led two $200M+ OSHPD Design-Build hospital projects through completion.
Daphne has extensive experience in medical planning and has served as lead designer for clients such as Cedars-Sinai and UCLA Health. Her design philosophy is centered around the human experience.
As a project manager, her strength is relationships. She focuses on fluid communication between the users, client and design team to deliver transformative spaces for both individual and community.
Laurie Chambers is a Senior Architect in NBBJ’s San Francisco office, with over 30 years of experience delivering complex projects for a broad range of clients and project types, from Healthcare to Life Sciences. As the technical lead for Ohana, he championed the mass timber and pre-fabrication envelope development with his collaborative leadership bringing architects, engineers, contractor and client together to deliver an complex, yet efficient design.
Troy Savage, is Manager of Strategic Project and Innovation at Mazzetti. He pairs facilitation, care, and process improvement techniques with engineering knowledge to help individuals, organizations and communities navigate strategic and operational change. He leads and facilitates “Reimagining Workshops,” a human centered design infused series of workshops that serve as an innovation platform at the intersection of healthcare design and practice. Troy excels in creating interactive conference presentations and experiences to inspire, enhance learning and to create new knowledge. And, since March 2020, Troy has coordinated IFHE’s support of the WHO response to COVID-19 and other critical healthcare challenges.
Steve Carr is a Principal and Senior Healthcare Planner with 45 years of design and project management experience, with the past 30+ years focused specifically on healthcare planning. Steve’s responsibilities include master strategic planning, programming, master facility planning, and project management services for diverse inpatient and outpatient health settings. He is invested in improving community health and is a knowledgeable advocate for planning for our community’s health future. In addition to collaborating with WHO and Mazzetti on the recent Rapid Response Center design in Haiti, Steve has international healthcare planning and design experience in Peru, Vietnam, Kuwait, Africa, and The United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Willy brings over 28 years of healthcare experience in programming, planning, design, project management, and construction as LS3P’s firmwide Healthcare Practice Leader. His previous professional experience includes roles as Director of Healthcare Architecture, Principal, and Office Director at firms in South Carolina, Texas, California, Arizona. He was also President and Founder of Anthrotects, a firm he established to design the keystone services of a new “medical city” featuring a 300 bed hospital, cancer center, and MOB now under construction in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Willy serves as an invaluable resource offering expertise and support to all eight offices.
Willy is a frequent conference speaker and presenter on a variety of healthcare design topics, and has served on the Board of Directors and Education Chair of the AIA Academy or Architecture for Health; and Founding Chairman of the AIA South Atlantic Region Architecture for Health Inaugural Conference, now in its second decade.