The Center for Health Design’s goal was to demonstrate a full scale mock-up at the VHA conference to illustrate the numerous evidence based design features of hospital patient rooms.
Initially, The Center for Health Design team was going to build a full scale physical mockup for the conference for roughly $200,000 , involving the following steps:
- Pay for the design blueprints.
- Hire a construction crew to build the room offsite of the conference.
- Make the construction of the patient room modular so that it can be taken down and reconstructed.
- Have all the medical devices donated and sent to the Center for the mock-up.
- Disassemble the offsite patient room and have it transported to the conference.
- Reconstruct at the conference.
- Implement donated medical devices.
- Disassemble and have taken to a landfill.
- Send back donated devices.
For roughly 10% of the cost of the physical mock-up, WorldViz was able to provide a virtual solution that surpassed all expectations. No waste was generated, safety (construction and transportation of materials) was guaranteed, contracting of multiple services was not necessary, coordination of loaner equipment was not needed, and the CHD staff was able to make design changes up until the week of the conference.
At the conference, users were able to immerse themselves in The Center for Health Design’s 3D model and take a tour which included proximity-based call-outs that explained different evidence-based design features implemented by the CHD team.
