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CAE580 Section 01 University of Miami
Hospital and Health Care Facility Design & Construction Summer I, 2011
Professor: Salomon Eljach
s.eljach@umiami.edu
312.434.3980 (feel free to reach out to this my personal cell phone at anytime).
Lectures: Fridays 4:30PM – 7:30PM Whitten Learning Center 184
Saturday 8:00AM – 1:00PM Whitten Learning Center 184
(subject to change in accordance with field trips and guest lecture coordination)
Office Hours: Email or call me and we can set up a time if I am not able to resolve your inquiry then.
SYLLABUS
This course presents the basic economic planning, design criteria, and construction process of modern
hospital and healthcare facilities and builds on the concepts and intuition that students will have derived
from their prior third and fourth year architectural engineering coursework.
We start by looking at the decision making of individual hospital capital improvement departments and
ask how executives and medical directors (or decision­makers generally) optimize construction budgets
for their institution in a MICRO economics sort of way. Then and because this decision­making at the
local institution is a result of MACRO economic policy, we look at the factors that contribute to the
allocation of funds throughout.
Then we look at the governing codes that design professionals abide by to result in a standard quality
facility. Such codes are primarily those of the American Institute of Architects Guidelines for Design
and Construction of Healthcare Facilities (2006), which includes the National Fire Protection Association
99: Standard for Health Care Facilities and 101:Life Safety, the Joint Commission, and the Americans
with Disabilities Act (with regard to hospitals). The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration
Requirements are in tune with the AIA and we will visit the AHCA process that local hospital
construction abides by.
We next investigate the systems and equipment integration of a hospital and healthcare facility's space
and ask how design can optimize functionality while keeping within budget.
A lecture is then devoted to the sustainability of the healthcare facility. Sustainability is broadly defined
as the capacity to endure time and the change that is associated with the passing of time. Sustainability as
will be used is that which is related to the adjustability of space for future use.
Next, we undertake an analysis of hospital's green sustainability efforts and present the pros, cons and
thus the methodology for LEED Certification on Hospitals per the United States Green Building Council.
Next, we undertake an overview of hospitality's influence in modern design and investigate how a local
hospital has really banked on this concept.

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CAE580 Section 01 University of Miami
Hospital and Health Care Facility Design & Construction Summer I, 2011
By the end of the semester you will have visited job sites, met and interacted with leading industry
professionals, and will be prepared to present a design of a real life hospital departmental renovations that
will be critiqued by a panel of hospital construction architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and
inspectors.
Prerequisites: Professor's permission.
Course Requirements
Exams
There will be one exam administered will be based entirely on the code.
Assignments
There will be reading assigned during class. Therefore, class attendance and participation is
crucial to your high note. In addition, the course will be taught in case study pedagogy so you
will be immersed in real life situation and asked to put your read into perspective.
Project
There will be a project due that will encompass all you learn in class. It will be presented to
industry professionals.
Grading
Your semester grade will be:
30% assignment/class participation
30% exam
40% final project
If you do poorly on the exam, ​or are unable to take it ​for any reason​, your final project will
automatically be re­weighted to be 70% of your semester grade, with the assignments constituting the
remaining 30%. We will make these calculations automatically for each student—you don’t have to “opt
in” or “opt out” of one or the other weighting. We will make certain you receive the highest grade to
which you are entitled.
To determine your semester grade, we will employ table given below:
Letter Grade Percentile
A 90​ ​
– 100
B 80​ ​
– 90
C 70 – 80
D 60 ­ 70

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CAE580 Section 01 University of Miami
Hospital and Health Care Facility Design & Construction Summer I, 2011
Readings
Readings are mostly drawn from the sources previously outlined and are supplemented with hand picked
articles and case studies. ​You will ​not​ be responsible for purchasing a book and handouts will be
offered to you.
Student Profiles
Every term, the course enrolls people from an amazing variety of backgrounds and walks of life. And,
the reasons for taking the class are almost as diverse as students’ backgrounds. In order to learn a little
about you, students are encouraged to present themselves the on the first day.