A Model Approach to Health Design Guidance

Synopsis:

The AusHFG impacts healthcare infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand. Not many Australasian initiatives have a model and database to show for their work – but the AusHFG do! Provided as by-products from developing their standard room designs, copies of their Revit model and database files are publicly available. A major project has been completed to improve these resources and align with industry best practice. Hear about this process, the outcome and future AusHFG initiatives.

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand what the AusHFG initiative is and how it impacts the design, construction and asset management of hospital and healthcare facilities.
2. To explore how ‘industry best practice’ was defined for this project, how AusHFG resources were assessed against this definition and then updated to align with it.
3. To understand the process and tools that supported a major model, object/family and database quality review to be undertaken, and to see the results.

Body:

The Australasian Health Facility Guidelines (AusHFG) is a public health sector initiative that impacts billions of dollars of healthcare infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand by providing a foundation for the design of healthcare and hospital projects. Not many Australasian initiatives have a model and database to show for their hard work – but the AusHFG do! Provided as by-products from the development of their room design guidelines (Standard Components), copies of the AusHFG Revit model and importable database files are publicly available on the AusHFG website. Recently a major project has been completed to improve the quality of these resources and align them to industry best practice. Hear how this project was undertaken, how decisions were made, what is available now and where the AusHFG are looking to head in the near future.

This presentation will include information on the AusHFG initiative, how the guidelines are reviewed and updated, the impact of the AusHFG on healthcare infrastructure projects, and why the content needed a thorough clean-up. You will take a look at the tools used by the AusHFG team to create their resources as well as the tools that were used for consultant collaboration on this project. The presentation will outline the content review process and you will hear about the recommendations and actions that resulted. You will also get to see a demonstration of the updated resources, hear about initiatives that are in the works and find out what the AusHFG looking to do in the near future.