Bringing Mass Timber to Healthcare

Mass timber is a hot topic in the architectural community, prized for its sustainability, versatility and biophilic properties. Its slow adoption in the healthcare typology due to infection control concerns in clinical settings is rapidly changing with recent code revisions and the construction of the Quinte Health Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital —the first unencapsulated all mass timber hospital in North America. In a recently published article, HDR's Jason-Emery Groën and Duncan Griffin delve into what's driving this growing interest in mass timber, the challenges of the building material and how the solutions present at PECMH.

Read more in Healthcare Design Magazine's “Rise of Mass Timber Construction in Healthcare Design.”