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SpaceMed Guide

A Space Planning Guide For Healthcare Facilities

By Cynthia Hayward, FAIA

With this step-by-step workbook and space planning templates in Microsoft® Excel, you can plan flexible, state-of-the-art hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and specialized healthcare facilities. The SpaceMed Guide (4th edition) is in process and is undergoing a major update. It will be available in early 2022 to align with the updated FGI Guidelines (approximately 30 days after publication of the 2022 FGI Guidelines). Join our mailing list to be notified when the SpaceMed Guide (4th edition) is available.

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FGI Guidelines Addendum

See the addendum for key changes in the 2018 FGI Guidelines that impact the nomenclature, required spaces, and minimum rooms sizes in the current edition of the SpaceMed Guide. The SpaceMed Guide is currently being updated to align with the 2022 FGI Guidelines (updated every four years).

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SpaceMed Essentials

Cynthia Hayward writes about current issues facing healthcare facility planners and architects in her new blog. This searchable knowledge base replaces the SpaceMed Newsletter.

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SpaceMed Hospital and Healthcare Facility Planning Guidelines

All top 10 US healthcare
architecture firms
have purchased the
SpaceMed Guide

SpaceMed Hospital and Healthcare Facility Planning Guidelines

All top 10 US healthcare architecture firms have purchased the SpaceMed Guide

Source: Building Design + Construction magazine's Top 160 Healthcare Architecture and AE Firms as featured in the 2020 Giants 400 Report.

All top 10 US healthcare
architecture firms
have purchased the
SpaceMed Guide