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Hospital building designs are constantly evolving — and for good reason. Healthcare design and construction can vastly impact and improve both patient and employee satisfaction. From pops of color to biophilic design, medical building construction can make a positive contribution to the experience patients have in a service that often brings anxiety and dread.
Take a look at some successful healthcare and hospital construction projects below for inspiration on how to take your medical office design trends to the next level and bring a major return on investment to developers, patients, staff and visitors for years to come.
A physician shortage is currently plaguing healthcare facilities across the nation. To offset this labor shortage, many hospitals and healthcare administrators are looking for new tactics to attract physicians to their facilities. This includes promoting newer, more modern facilities using evolutionary design trends.
Take a look above at Park Nicollet out of Minnesota. They upgraded their exterior with our Illumination panels and VintageWood fiber cement cladding in the color Cedar. The architects created a staggered look to develop a sort of contrast on the building, to make it both chic and inviting.
Our Wood Series is welcoming because it offers a wood-like aesthetic, engaging in biophilic design trends. However, it comes without the hassle and maintenance of real wood.
When patients are sent to a skilled nursing facility, it’s usually after an intense hospital stay recovering from a serious illness or injury. After spending so much time in a hospital, patients want to be embraced by warm and natural elements. Our VintageWood fiber cement cladding in Cedar and Bark colors paired with our EmpireBlock fiber cement cladding was the perfect anecdote for the Lehi Skilled Nursing Facility in Utah.
These products not only give a warm, rustic aesthetic, but they also allow for long-term durability, ensuring there won’t be endless maintenance down the road that the facility has to manage.
Utah is also an incredibly hot state, with temperatures in high numbers most of the year. With desert-like conditions and the facility being in direct sunlight most of the day, our solutions at Nichiha hold up and resist fading and warping. And with fantastic insulating numbers, patients stay cool and calm all day long and the facility enjoys energy savings due to our energy-efficient panels.
Dawes Fretzin Dermatology facility is the perfect example of mixing and matching textures and hues to achieve a modern look. We provided an expansive offering of finishes and textures that allow healthcare facilities to achieve the look of concrete, stone, wood, metal, block and more.
On top of updating exteriors, many healthcare administrators are working to incorporate state-of-the-art technology, updating patient rooms with a hotel aesthetic and modernizing lobby areas with a spa-like feel to attract recruiting staff and potential patients.
Dawes Fretzin Dermatology went with our RoughSawn panels in the color Tobacco, Illumination panels and Ribbed panels in Navy for the perfect contrast with added depth and dimensions.
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What’s the point in spending large sums of money on a renovation if it’s not going to last a long time? Our architectural wall panels at Nichiha are extremely durable and backed by a 50-year warranty.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities, like the Scully Welsh Cancer Center above, have patients depending on it for lifesaving care. At Nichiha, we use the same installation system for all panel types no matter what aesthetic or style you’re going for — this means that only one type of installer is needed to complete the work. This allows healthcare facilities that save lives to get up and running quicker when doing a renovation or a new build.
Our panels are also incredibly low maintenance, which allows healthcare facilities to focus more time on caring for patients and less time worrying about the exterior care of the building.
People are yearning for more natural-looking designs. Choosing colors and textures that remind people of mother nature is a great way to pique interest and make people feel at home. Rusty reds, natural beiges, moody greens and earthy browns are making their way into exterior finishes for healthcare design projects.
Mixing and matching wood and stone-like surfaces is also popular, as seen above on Racine Dental Group’s building. It creates an interesting modern twist on a design classic.
So many hospitals have outdated exteriors, which makes both going to work and going to get medical care a not-so-exciting experience. With our solutions at Nichiha, it’s easy to implement a more modern design to help facilities stand out in a highly competitive market.
We are thrilled to see many of our modern cladding materials being incorporated into healthcare facilities across the nation. As new trends emerge in the healthcare field, our experts will be here every step of the way to make sure we’re providing solutions that work best for patients and employers alike.
No matter what, our professionals at Nichiha will continue to develop highly durable, long-lasting, sustainable and aesthetically beautiful fiber cement cladding for healthcare facilities for years to come. See a project you like? Check out our product offerings and contact a rep in order to find out more about the possibilities fiber cement cladding offers.