Vivian Loftness, FAIA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

      The new module of BIDS™, the building investment decision support tool developed by the Center for Building Performance at Carnegie Mellon University, incorporates lifecycle datasets specific to the health care field. Discuss how professionals can build lifecycle justifications for high-performance health care environments, and the impressive return on investments possible through benefits in energy efficiency, patient health, and staff productivity.

Learning objectives:

• Review baseline performance measures in health care settings and their impact on design, including recovery rate, infection rate, medication quantity, error rate, falls, staff attraction/retention, and staff health
• Discuss design changes made to improve, and their relationship to, the performance outcomes of health care settings
• Examine building lifecycle or return-on-investment arguments for investing in higher quality health care settings.