Hospitals are an integral part of healthcare services and each hospital has its own distinct character, creating an environment that helps the patient to recover. When architects design a hospital, they find inspiration from the vision, mission of the project and from the local environment. As these sectors grow, so does the need to reward industry leaders and innovators in a variety of categories. Therefore, the Hospital Build and Infrastructure India (HBII), an event in its third year has introduced the Hospital Build & Infrastructure Awards this year. These awards will act as a platform to promote the professionals who have worked hard to achieve a hospital environment that enables and promotes a healthy life. The awards will recognise leaders in the healthcare industry who have devoted their efforts to building hospitals that help improve healthcare services and raise the bar in providing world-class patient care. The Hospital Build & Infrastructure Awards is a part of the Hospital Build & Infrastructure Awards International Series which is organised in its other portfolio of events like Hospital Build Middle East.
The Awards is open for all and a nomination procedure is made available online by the organisers. The HBII Awards are managed by HOSMAC as their Knowledge Partners.
A panel of jury members including top officials from leading players in the hospital infrastructure sector like Department of Health, Govt. of India, Siemens, GE Healthcare and HOSMAC to name a few have been put together to select the winners from all the nominations received. The key sponsors for this are CareFusion and Silver Thomas Hanley Health Architecture. CareFusion is a global corporation serving the healthcare industry with technologies, services and analytics solutions that help measurably improve the safety and cost of healthcare. Their market-leading brands help hospitals improve medication management, lower costs in procedural areas, reduce infections and advance the care of ventilated patients. Silver Thomas Hanley Health Architecture on the other hand has over 30 years of experience in hospital infrastructure space and deliver innovative healthcare solutions that represent exceptional value for money for our clients. Health is their core business. They have an extensive and unrivalled healthcare project portfolio of over 2000 projects, incorporating a range of successfully completed healthcare facilities ranging from small, local community projects to large, complex international designs.
The HBII awards consists of some very interesting categories such as:
Best Physical Environment Award (Built)
Award qualifiers: Designers, architects and healthcare facilities owners of completed hospital projects in India, who are able to demonstrate how the design of the built environment of the hospital/healthcare facility has created an outstanding space and is built to enhance the experience felt by patients, staff and visitors through an innovative and considered approach to the physical environment.
Judging criteria: Privacy of patients, accessibility and movement for patients and staff signages, aesthetics for visitors and patients, harmony between colours and functionality.
Best Sustainable Hospital Project Award
Award qualifiers: This award will be given to an outstanding hospital project in India that advances sustainable development through design, and is open to both built and planned projects. The entries are open to hospitals who can demonstrate outstanding commitment to sustainability in terms of its design, development and construction. In particular, highlighting the innovative use of new materials, products or construction methods, which will save energy and encourage future efficiency. The project should demonstrate an efficient use of resources, such as energy and water, and use of materials that reduce environmental and health impacts of the facility. Submissions must be able to show qualitative and quantitative data demonstrating sustainable initiatives on most, if not all, of the following points:
Judging criteria: Innovative use of materials, waste management, preparedness to treat public health, efficient use of energy, complies with government norms for green
Best Healing Environment Award
Award qualifiers: This award will be given to hospitals who can demonstrate how a considered approach to the all elements, both physical and human, work together to ensure a strong healing environment. This award will focus on how the facility hasmanaged to deliver the best healing environment through a combination of factors. This award is aimed at recognising the best all round management of a healthcare facility in India.
Judging criteria: Reduction of patient stay, reduction in infection, staff to patient ratio, well managed patient nutrition programme, good health and safety records
Best Technology Initiative Award
Award qualifiers: This award is aimed at recognising the best technology initiative in a new or upgraded healthcare facility. It will focus on how the facility utilises a new technology in a various innovative ways that improve the healthcare outcomes, reduce the time spent to diagnose or treat patients, and make the experience of the patients more friendly and pleasant. This new technology should also open the door for usage of new ways or trends in dealing with patients.
Judging criteria: Increase in patient experience, improvement in healthcare outcomes, reduction in time spent on diagnosis and treatment, annual savings, improved business/ profits
Architect/ Designer of the year for Healthcare
Award qualifiers: Individuals/ companies who have designed and commissioned a healthcare project.
Judging criteria: Design vs usage, timelines, compliance for patient safety, compliance for norms, client satisfaction. This designer or company support its nomination through blue print of the project, drawings of the project, key features of the project, challenges if any involved in the project, brief description of the project.
Builder/ Construction company of the year for Healthcare
Award qualifiers: Companies who have successfully built a hospital /healthcare project.
Judging criteria: Size, adherence to time lines, compliance for patient safety, compliance for norms, client satisfaction. The companies should be able to justify the nominations through blue print, chief engineer/ engineers involved, key challenges in the project, time and size of the project and brief description of the project.
The Best Initiative to Improve the Design Standard of Healthcare Facilities
Award qualifiers: This award is open to individuals, institutions, or governmental organisations who have integrated evidence-based design, sustainable science, leadership training, and best practice benchmarks for planning and initiating healthcare facilities. The nominee should clearly aim to articulate specific recommendations for public policy, guidelines, and frameworks for lasting collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, in creating a world-class health facility design. The initiative should promote the improvement in the standard of existing and future healthcare facilities and clearly demonstrate connections between design and the delivery of healthcare services.
Judging criteria: This multi disciplinary initiative should combine key principles of architecture and interior architecture, healthcare innovation, leadership and management and human health services. It should facilitate the development of outstanding innovative and consistently high quality work in health design and contribute to increased efficiency and management of health systems; policy development, health legislation and ethics, within the framework of primary healthcare.
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