Healthcare Design Trends: New Stanford and LPCH – Flexibility in Design Including Response to COVID

The overarching goal for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Packard Children’s) was to create an environment that aids healing by providing children and expectant mothers and their visitors warm, comfortable, light-filled and uplifting spaces, creating a “home away from home”. The project embodies innovation and a true commitment to environmental sustainability. Displacement ventilation was a cornerstone system decision to achieving the project’s energy-efficiency goals.

Discover how the 1st West Coast LEED Platinum Children’s Hospital was able to achieve aggressive energy and sustainability goals, while prioritizing an enhanced patient experience. Understand key design choices that earned the hospital LEED Platinum status. Learn challenges and solutions that the design team had to balance in order to deliver a functional facility dedicated to healing. And now, given our COVID world, discover how this hospital was surprisingly able to readily adapt.

Learning Objectives

• Identify specific ways Packard Children’s Hospital balances advanced MEP systems with aesthetic considerations.
• Specify methodologies that deliver an enhanced patient experience throughout the hospital.
• Understand key design choices that earned the hospital LEED Platinum status.
• Learn challenges and solutions that the design team had to balance in order to deliver a functional facility dedicated to healing.

Speakers

Brian Hans, PE, LEED AP

Associate Principal | Senior Mechanical Engineer

Brian has 30 years of experience as a multidisciplinary mechanical design engineer for healthcare facilities. His expertise encompasses HVAC systems, plumbing and piping systems, pollution control exhaust systems, industrial exhaust systems, HEPA filtration systems, thermal storage, and co-generation facilities. For the 10+ year duration of Stanford’s LEED Platinum Packard Children’s Hospital design and construction, Brian served as the Mechanical Engineer of Record. (Packard Children’s is a flagship project for Stanford Health Care). He contributed to designing displacement ventilation (DV) systems in the hospital–the largest scale implementation of DV in a California hospital for patient care areas, yielding better energy efficiency and patient satisfaction.

Joshua Fait PE

Senior Associate | Senior Mechanical Engineer

Joshua has more than ten years of experience in the Building Design, Construction, Energy, Maintenance and Service Industry. His expertise lies within project development, engineering, preconstruction, MEP design management, and energy performance contracting. His technical specialization includes HVAC, energy engineering, mechanical, plumbing, medical gas, and process systems throughout all project phases. He has spent his professional career working in multiple industries; however, he is considered an expert in engineering solutions for complex healthcare facilities.

Jeremy Galvin PE

Senior Associate | Electrical Engineer

Jeremy has 12 years of experience in medium and low voltage power system design, energy storage and microgrid design, lighting design, electrical heating systems, grounding and lightning protection, low voltage communications and fire alarm systems, CSA, specialty lab/chem, building engineered systems, and project management. On every project, Jeremy is passionate about bringing people together to solve complex challenges. Jeremy is well-versed working in collaborative environments, including the “big room”, leading programmatic sustainability and resiliency discussions.