*Integrated Sustainable Design* Reaches the Health Care Industry

www.lpainc.com A new partnership between award-winning design firm LPA Inc. and Rick Wood, AIA, a healthcare architect and previous partner at WBSA, means greener, higher quality architecture for healthcare facilities. On August 4, 2014, Rick Wood and key members of his professional staff will join LPA to form LPA Healthcare, a new studio at the Irvine-headquartered integrated sustainable design firm.

LPA’s strong 49-year history of providing sustainable design for public, private and developer projects — grounded in a process where designers creatively use project budgets to interpret brand image and tell a client’s story through the built environment — is being successfully applied to the healthcare industry. With more than 25 years of healthcare industry experience, Wood and his team bring a depth of technical expertise and knowledge to LPA’s growing healthcare practice.

LPA Healthcare will bring a unique approach to design that has not been seen in the industry before. The studio seeks to assist healthcare facility administration and staff in accomplishing their goals of healing patients and increasing wellness in more efficient ways without sacrificing the quality of care and patient experience.

According to Karen Thomas, CID, LEED AP BD+C and principal at LPA, with an integrated sustainable design approach, designers look at a project from every angle from start to finish. Teams of in-house architects, designers, medical planners and engineers collaborate in real-time, with a focus on sustainability, efficiency and cost effectiveness. The result is completely customized, branded environments for healing spaces, based upon the patients’ and providers’ needs.

“A key challenge is being able to appropriately and cost-effectively interpret a brand image within a healthcare space. LPA brings a keen expertise to clients in this area, with almost a retail approach to branding and to facility design that's rarely seen in healthcare facilities,” says Thomas.

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