2017 - Issue 4

Attaining the Ideal Healthcare Capital Construction Project: Through the Lens of an Everyday Assembly

Attaining the Ideal Healthcare Capital Construction Project: Through the Lens of an Everyday Assembly

It's happened many times before: that sturdy, highly functional computer desk you saw at the store arrives in a robust looking box.

What Will the ‘Sharing Economy’ Mean for Healthcare?

What Will the ‘Sharing Economy’ Mean for Healthcare?

Early last year when ternational media reported of a nationwide strike exploding into violence and leading to shutting down of roadways.

Healing and Hope: Design for Paediatric Spaces

Healing and Hope: Design for Paediatric Spaces

Designing spaces for young patients is a task full of many challenges. These environments often must meet multiple demandssimultaneously.

Getting Smarter about Building Performance Management

Getting Smarter about Building Performance Management

Since September 2016, when we commenced our ‘proof of concept’, Enable by Design (EBD) have been busy, with partners, refining the Smart Asset Management (SAM) project. The SAM project supported by the Internet of Things (IoT) and preceded by EBD’s understanding of BIM (Building Information Modelling) 

MEP Design Process and Coordination in Healthcare Facilities

MEP Design Process and Coordination in Healthcare Facilities

The 2017 Building Healthcare Innovation & Design Show is a showcase of the best of the region’s health consultants, contributors and partners, and JPW Consulting Group is pleased to be part of such a distinguished event.

 Optimising the project delivery from an operator’s perspective

Optimising the project delivery from an operator’s perspective

The current healthcare arena in the Gulf States is undergoing changes.  Financial sustainability is at the forefront, followed by procurement of services.

Supply Chain Management: Top 5 Improvement Themes

Supply Chain Management: Top 5 Improvement Themes

With the demand for healthcare across the world increasing, we are all seemingly locked in a battle to deliver higher quality, affordable care against a backdrop of escalating costs.

Change around the Corner?

Change around the Corner?

An Insider’s View on Developing the Landscape of Financing Global Healthcare Systems. Technological advances, demographic change, and increasing numbers of patients suffering from lifestyle-related diseases.

Bringing on positivity with aesthetic healing environments

Bringing on positivity with aesthetic healing environments

Light.Life. Hope. For Dr Raza Siddiqui, CEO of the Arabian Healthcare Group and executive director, RAK Hospital, UAE, these three attributes have come to define the essence of a healing environment.

 Healthcare supply-demand gap draws investors to the MENA Region

Healthcare supply-demand gap draws investors to the MENA Region

Dr Helmut Schuehsler, Chairman and CEO of  TVM Capital Healthcare, discusses the growth of companies that are addressing the supply-demand gap in MENA healthcare.

Mediclinic Parkview Hospital: Breaking New Grounds

Mediclinic Parkview Hospital: Breaking New Grounds

For those who live and work in ‘New Dubai’ on the Southern side of the United Arab Emirates, some may have caught a glimpse of the hive of construction activity going on along the Umm Suqeim road near Arabian Ranches.

Risks of Delaying Integration of Medical Equipment Planning in the Design Process

Risks of Delaying Integration of Medical Equipment Planning in the Design Process

At what stage should the ‘medical equipment planning process’ commence during the design of hospital projects and what are the risks that result from delaying this process?