Multidisciplinary practice BDP has published a report based on comparing UK and French hospital design.
The report highlights areas where design makes a difference to healthcare outcomes and where design and build practice determines the cost of hospital construction and operation.

The report is the result of an internal BDP study originally commissioned to see if there were informing principles in the work of Groupe 6 – a firm of leading French architects in hospital design partly owned by BDP – which could help BDP in its hospital design programme.

Some of the key points to come out of the study are that:

  • French hospitals deliver more benefit for less cost than UK hospitals.

  • French hospitals cost between half and two thirds of the cost of UK hospitals per m2, but per bed they are more similar as the French allow more area per bed.

  • Building servicing costs in France are less than half those of the UK with little artificial ventilation used.

For a copy of the report see the BDP website www.bdp.co.uk/healthcare

Source

Building Sustainable Design