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HOK

HOK – Architectural Services for Healthcare Facilities
HOK is the world’s largest multi-disciplinary architectural practice. HOK offers a fully integrated architectural service. Our architectural service for healthcare clients includes:

Architectural service and fee advice
Master planning
Space planning
Brief writing
Client advice
Medical interior design
Landscape design
Urban planning and design
Public Private Partnership (PPP) advice
CAD services
Computer graphics
Contract advice
Development plans
Sustainable design
Consulting services
WORLD LEADING ARCHITECTURAL SERVICE
HOK ranks as the world’s largest architecture practice in the 2006 edition of Building Design World Architecture 200, the annual benchmark survey of the architectural industry.

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
HOK Health Care has completed more than 400 projects including acute hospitals, ambulatory facilities, mental, hospice and long-term care facilities, integrated living centres, elderly housing and medical office buildings.

HOK Health Care utilises new concepts and features to reduce operating costs while enhancing patient satisfaction and medical outcomes.

ARCHITECTURAL EXPERTISE FOR ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITALS
HOK Health Care has worked with more academic teaching hospitals than any other practice in North America. This allows unique access to information about emerging models of care and innovative technologies.

HOK Health Care has more than 250 employees in seven strategic locations worldwide. Collaboration between HOK offices enables a seamless service to clients worldwide.

HEALTH CARE ARCHITECTURE
HOK Health Care offers a full architectural service for health care buildings including concept design, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and / or negotiation and construction administration.

Schematic design and design development is undertaken by skilled medical planners.

HEALTH CARE MASTER PLANNING
HOK Health Care offers the full range of master planning services from regional scale to site specific design. Complex planning problems are solved with a strong emphasis on client needs, the environment and budget realities.

Services offered include:

Site selection and feasibility studies
Campus planning
Development planning
Site planning and site engineering
Urban planning and design
HEALTH CARE PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
HOK Health Care consultants provide planning services for health care and health science research facilities prior to design and construction.

Planning and programming (brief development) is tailored to a client’s situation and includes:

Functional evaluation of existing buildings and health care activities
Evaluation of alternative development strategies
Definition of functional content and preliminary estimates of functional space
Operational policy statements and clinical output specifications
Feasibility studies
Design briefs
HEALTH CARE INTERIOR DESIGN
Interior design is a part of HOK Health Care’s total design commitment to enhance the quality of life for patients and staff. A setting that supports patients and motivates healthcare staff will be truly a healing environment.

Interior design looks at all aspects of the hospital experience as affected by the physical environment: wayfinding, interaction with patients, families and staff, furniture, furnishing and artwork. Particular emphasis is laid on responding to the emotional, social and spiritual needs of the patient and their family.

HOK International Ltd
216 Oxford Street
London
W1C 1DB
United Kingdom
Contact: Sinclair Webster
Tel: +44 20 7898 5038
Tel: +44 20 7898 5029
Fax: +44 20 7636 1987
Email: Sinclair.Webster@HOK.com
URL: www.hok.com
URL: www.hokeurope.com