The Advocate Outpatient Collaborative (Advocate Aurora Health, HDR, Boldt, IMEG, and partners), an Integrated Lean Project Delivery team that has spent the past six years rapidly delivering clinics throughout the Chicagoland area, dramatically shifted its focus on March 18, 2020, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a series of surge tents outside the network’s facilities.
TEXT Jason-Emery Groen, Design Director, HDR
What can COVID-19 teach architecture firms about the optimal structure of design teams" The pandemic swiftly affected healthcare systems and providers around the world, creating an emergency situation in which a surge of patients required testing and care. HDR became involved in several parallel COVID-19 response projects. Three of these are notable for drawing on deep collaboration and established teams: one in London, Ontario; another intended for a worldwide audience; and a third in Illinois and Wisconsin. Rapid response in London
On March 31, the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario contacted HDR, requesting assistance with the development of a regional field hospital on an extremely tight timeline. The success in moving quickly and qualitatively was the result of a long-standing relationship with the client team, coupled with a depth of expertise within HDR. Our firm?s on-staff microbiology and containment specialists allowed us to rapidly develop peer-reviewed solutions. HDR had also struck an internal COVID-19 Rapid Response Tas...