26–27 January 2027Houston, Texas
Healthcare Facilities Design, Engineering & Construction Summit 2027
A focused platform for the senior professionals tackling the design, engineering, construction and operational challenges facing modern healthcare facilities.
Program highlight
- Healthcare Campus Master Planning & Strategic Expansion
- ICRA, FGI Compliance & Infection Control
- Live Campus Logistics & Phased Construction Execution
- Project Delivery & Contracting Frameworks
- Zero Downtime: Engineering Redundant Power for Critical Care
- Microgrids, Electrification & the Reliability Tradeoff
- Powering the Plant: Retrofitting CUPs Without Downtime
- The Capacity Crunch: Trade Shortages, Tariffs & the Prefab Answer
- Advanced Healthcare HVAC & Environmental Controls
- Specialized MEP Trade Coordination
- Rising on a Live Campus: Structural Engineering for Vertical Towers
- Workforce, Safety & Sustainable Building Practices
About the event
Senior professionals shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure, in one focused room.
The Healthcare Facilities Design, Engineering & Construction Summit Houston 2027 brings together senior professionals shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure, offering a focused platform to tackle the design, engineering, construction and operational challenges facing modern healthcare facilities.
Where health systems are investing heavily
- Hospital expansions
- Facility upgrades
- New outpatient environments
What's actually slowing project delivery today
- Live-campus construction
- Infection control
- Phased delivery
- Modular building
- Critical power
- HVAC automation
- Utility infrastructure
- Specialty engineering
- The fast-growing shift toward ambulatory & outpatient care
It's a focused room for senior decision-makers to trade real project experience, benchmark approaches and solve practical problems alongside their peers across the healthcare facilities sector.
Who shouldattend?
- C-level executives
- VPs
- Heads
- Directors
- General managers
with responsibility for:
Healthcare Facility Design & Construction
Campus Master Planning & Strategic Expansion
Capital Projects & Real Estate
Construction & Project Management
General Contracting & Modular Building
MEP & Utility Engineering
Building Automation & Critical Power
HVAC & Central Utility Plant (CUP) Operations
Specialty Engineering & Subcontracting
Infection Control & Regulatory Compliance (ICRA/FGI)
Structural & Foundation Engineering
Ambulatory & Outpatient Network Development
Sustainability & Decarbonization
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Topics to be discussed
Eighteen topics across four tracks, from campus master planning to foundations on Gulf Coast soil. Open a topic to see its discussion points.
Healthcare Architecture, Master Planning & Design
4 topics
- Evaluating footprint constraints, bed-capacity expansions, and campus adjacencies for mega-projects (e.g., MD Anderson, Harris Health)
- Right-sizing legacy campuses to accommodate multi-phase inpatient tower additions without disrupting live clinical operations
- Aligning long-range facility master plans with shifting service-line demand, population health data, and reimbursement trends
- Sequencing land acquisition, zoning, and community stakeholder engagement for large-scale campus growth
- Designing clinical zones, isolation spaces, and infection risk mitigation into high-density hospital expansions
- Navigating updated FGI Guidelines and Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) protocols across renovation and new-build projects
- Integrating negative-pressure isolation, anterooms, and airflow management for surge- and pandemic-ready facilities
- Coordinating infection-prevention specialists early in design to reduce construction-phase risk within occupied buildings
- Architectural frameworks for off-campus Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), Medical Office Buildings (MOBs), and rapid outpatient care delivery
- Designing distributed care networks that capture outpatient volume shifting away from traditional hospital campuses
- Standardizing prototype layouts across multi-site ASC and MOB portfolios to accelerate delivery and reduce design costs
- Planning flexible, convertible outpatient spaces that adapt to evolving procedural, diagnostic, and telehealth technologies
- Applying evidence-based, trauma-informed, and biophilic design principles to improve patient outcomes and staff retention
- Planning pediatric, behavioral health, and emergency-department environments in response to rising workplace-violence and safety concerns
- Incorporating AI-enabled operations and future-focused equipment planning into early architectural programming
- Designing cancer center and specialty service-line environments as dedicated destination facilities
General Contracting, Construction Management & Modular Building
4 topics
- Managing heavy construction, material delivery, and site staging on operational 24/7 hospital campuses without clinical downtime
- Developing interim life-safety and infection-control plans for phased demolition and construction within occupied facilities
- Coordinating multi-shift execution and logistics planning to minimize disruption to patients, staff, and emergency access
- Managing utility tie-ins and shutdown sequencing across live inpatient towers and critical departments
- Offsite prefabrication of MEP racks, headwalls, and modular clinical skids to shorten delivery schedules and lower job-site labor exposure
- Benchmarking prefab-driven schedule compression against recent mega-projects, where prefabricated components have cut delivery timelines by four to six months on billion-dollar inpatient towers
- Scaling standardized modular patient-room and bathroom pods across multi-site health system portfolios
- Addressing skilled-trade labor shortages by shifting work to controlled, off-site manufacturing environments
- Navigating fast-track project delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, CMAR) while managing public/private capital budgets and labor compliance
- Structuring alliance, EPC, and EPCM-style contracts to manage cost and schedule risk on billion-dollar health system builds
- Balancing capital-stack complexity across public bonds, private equity, and health-system reserves for large expansions
- Building supply-chain resilience for long-lead equipment and materials amid ongoing cost and tariff volatility
- Mitigating skilled-labor shortages through workforce development, prefabrication, and multi-site standardization
- Embedding sustainability and decarbonization targets into healthcare construction without compromising uptime or code compliance
- Reducing on-site safety risk through lean construction methods and precision off-site manufacturing
- Tracking rising material costs (structural steel, plumbing, MEP) and their impact on multi-story inpatient tower budgets
Building Automation, HVAC, Critical Power & CUP Systems
5 topics
- N+1 design standards for life-safety and clinical systems
- Backup generation, UPS sizing, and failover testing protocols
- 2026 bottleneck: grid strain meeting hurricane-driven demand surges
- Case study: keeping ORs and ICUs online through outages
- Integrating BAS across sprawling, multi-building hospital campuses
- Legacy-to-new system interoperability — the industry's top integration headache
- Data-driven facilities management and predictive maintenance
- Vendor landscape: Johnson Controls, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Trane
- Mechanical/electrical hardening strategies for hurricane season
- Flood-zone and wind-load design requirements specific to Houston
- Rising insurance and regulatory pressure post-storm events
- Emergency preparedness planning for uninterrupted patient care
- Decarbonization mandates vs. non-negotiable uptime requirements
- On-site generation and microgrid feasibility for hospital campuses
- What “critical infrastructure” budgets look like in 2027+
- Early movers and pilot projects to watch
- How targeted CUP retrofits are delivering multi-million-dollar annual savings with paybacks under 3 years
- Sequencing retrofits on a live, 24/7 utility plant
- Balancing capital cost vs. long-term energy ROI
- Vendor spotlight: leading BAS providers' approach to CUP modernization
Specialty Engineering & Subcontracting
5 topics
- Engineering ORs, imaging suites, and high-complexity clinical environments
- Coordinating MEP scopes with equipment vendors and clinical staff
- Shrinking talent pool: the specialty MEP engineer shortage
- Design-assist models that reduce late-stage rework
- Lessons from Centennial Tower (26 stories) and LBJ Hospital (12 stories)
- Structural strategies for tight, occupied campus footprints
- Sequencing vertical construction without disrupting clinical operations
- Foundation-to-rooftop coordination across trades
- Aligning specialty scopes to FGI Guidelines, Joint Commission, and CMS
- Managing compliance when codes shift mid-project
- ICRA/ILSM coordination across subcontractor trades
- Avoiding costly late-stage compliance failures
- Expansive clay soils and their impact on foundation design
- Flood-zone requirements driving cost and schedule risk
- Site logistics for large-footprint builds on constrained urban land
- Named case: A.H. Beck Foundation's work on Centennial Tower
- Subcontractor labor shortages and wage-compliance risk
- Tariff-driven material cost escalation and procurement disruption
- Modular/prefab MEP assemblies as a schedule-compression strategy
- What owners should demand from GCs in a tight labor market
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The agenda includes networking breaks featuring face-to-face meetings during coffee and ice-breaking sessions. These segments are designed to foster meaningful connections and facilitate interactions among attendees.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in focused discussions, exchange ideas, and establish new relationships in a relaxed and informal setting.
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Up to 6 hours of networking breaks among delegates
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Drinks reception for delegate networking
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Facilitated peer-to-peer delegate networking
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Houston, Texas · 26–27 January 2027
Where the industry Connects. Collaborates. Builds.
Up to 6 hours of networking breaks, a drinks reception and facilitated peer-to-peer networking, bringing together senior leaders in healthcare facility design, engineering and construction.
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