Design & Health Academy Award Categories 2009
The Design & Health International Academy Awards is the world’s leading advocacy programme, recognising professional excellence in the research and practice of designing healthy environments.
Entrants from all over the world are invited to submit in ten award categories in the following areas:
International Healthcare Project (Over 40,000 sqm)
An award for an outstanding acute or non-acute healthcare building where patient-centred considerations are as evident as clinical and managerial priorities. The project must demonstrate an understanding of the therapeutic effect of a ‘healing’ environment, and show how innovative design permits ongoing flexibility of use, addresses issues of sustainability and has an elevational treatment which recognises the broader civic context.
Lead judge
Prof Per Gunnar Svensson,
president, International Academy for Design & Health
International Healthcare Project (Under 40,000 sqm)
An award for an outstanding acute or non-acute healthcare building where patient-centred considerations are as evident as clinical and managerial priorities. The project must demonstrate an understanding of the therapeutic effect of a ‘healing’ environment, and show how innovative design permits ongoing flexibility of use, addresses issues of sustainability and has an elevational treatment which recognises the broader civic context.
Lead judge
John JK C Ting
past president of the Singapore Institute of Architects, Singapore
Mental Health Project
Awarded for a mental healthcare facility where an effective reconciliation between issues of security and perceived ‘openness’ are evident and where the operational need for supervision does not overwhelm the imperative to provide a civilising and humane setting to support therapeutic intervention. The project should appear community-friendly. Evidence of safe landscaping is important, as are levels of construction specification to meet informed standards of sustainability.
 Lead judge
Lord Nigel Crisp
House of Lords, UK
End-of-life Care
Awarded for a scheme which conspicuously succeeds in providing a ‘natural’ setting for terminal care, where the design not only suggests re-assurance to patients and carers, but is also recognised as a positive attribute to the surrounding community. Evidence of sympathetic landscaping is important, as are levels of construction specification to meet informed standards of sustainability.
Lead judge
Derek Parker
director, Anshen + Allen, USA
Elderly Care Project
Awarded for accommodation designed specifically for the elderly, physically and/or mentally frail, where a balance has been struck between operational efficiency and the ‘domestic’ atmosphere necessary for long-term care and support. The demands of sympathetic supervision must have been reconciled with managerial effectiveness. Evidence of complimentary landscaping is important, as are levels of construction specification to meet informed standards of sustainability.
Lead judge
John Zeisel
president of Hearthstone Alzheimer’s, USA
Research Project
Awarded for a completed, independently assessed, piece of research focused on a particular aspect of the design, function, construction, financing or maintenance of a healthcare facility or addressing a relevant topic concerning public health in the context of the working environment.
Lead judge
Dr Paul Barach
professor of Safety Science and Anesthesiology, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sustainability Project
Awarded for a completed healthcare project where issues of sustainability are achieved at a level conspicuously above the present mandatory norm and which set a new standard of attainment to satisfy legislative, technical, financial and moral imperatives. The award will only be made for exceptional solutions which must have been in full operation for a minimum of one year. Submissions for this catagory may have been completed between the 1st January 2004 and 31st January 2009.
 Lead judge
Phil Nedin
global head of healthcare, ARUP, UK
Low-cost Project in Developing Economies
This innovative award is given to a completed healthcare scheme where input of financial and technical skills has been necessarily limited. The entry must demonstrate design ingenuity to meet the clinical requirements without resorting to high-tech or over-sophisticated solutions. The building should be flexible in use, climatically aware and ‘do-able’ with strictly limited resources.
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Lead judge
Eric de Roodenbeke
director-general, International
Hospital Federation, France
Product Design for Healthcare Application
Award for a manufactured product or item of equipment which is integrally installed in a healthcare environment and not only advances levels of technical performance within its specific field, but integrates satisfactorily with the setting designed to accommodate it.
Lead judge
Colum Lowe
managing director, Caulder Moore
Patient Environment and the Arts
Award to recognise the effective application of creative endeavour (of any type or in any medium) which further advances knowledge of the potential of the arts to assist significantly in the therapeutic process. Preference will be given to conspicuous success in new approaches, stretching still further the boundaries of possibility in the wide creative field.
Lead judge
John Wells-Thorpe
consultant, architectural historian and writer
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