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The AIA/AAH Design Awards showcase the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. The awards highlight the trends of healthcare facilities and the future direction of these facilities. Projects should exhibit conceptual strength that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. The AIA/AAH will recognize the firms for their contribution to the healthcare environment.
Schedule
Competition for 2009 is closed, watch for 2010 details in the fall of this year.
Past Recipients
2008 | 2009
Categories
Projects may be submitted in one of four categories:
- Category A: Built, Less than $25 million (construction cost)
- Category B: Built, More than $25 million (construction cost)
- Category C: Unbuilt
- Must be commissioned for compensation by a client with the authority and intention to build
- May include both projects and master plans
- Category D: Innovations in Design Research, Built and Unbuilt
The Innovations in Planning, Research and Design category is intended to recognize outstanding design and/or functional planning components of a design or research project. The successful entries will demonstrate a unique and innovative design solution and will meet the set of metrics the solution was set out to achieve. As such, the submission may be a built or unbuilt project, or a particularly innovative area within a project. It may also be a research project or study that can illustrate an innovative approach to planning and design.
The following information must be supplied; projects submitted without this supporting documentation will be disqualified.
Built (completed at least 12 months prior to submission for award):
- Must cite research on which the hypotheses for the innovative concept was based
- Must indicate the plan for gathering and measuring data post-occupancy , and how the collected data supports or refutes the hypotheses
Unbuilt: May include research papers advancing healthcare design concepts
- Must cite the research on which the hypotheses are based, as well as a plan for how data will be gathered and collected post-occupancy to show how measures were achieved
Eligibility
1. Because this is a program that will evaluate modern trends in healthcare design, projects submitted must have been completed after January 1, 2003.
2. Projects may be re-submitted in future year's competitions, as long as they still meet the submission requirements. Projects that have received an AIA/AAH award are not eligible for resubmission for consideration in the same category.
3. Projects may be located anywhere in the world, but must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States or in one of its territories at the time of the project's completion. "Completion" is synonymous with "substantial completion" as defined in the standard AIA documents governing construction.
4. The submitting architect may qualify as a member of a design team, whether or not serving as the head of the team. When one architect is not the sole author, all other participants contributing substantially to the design of the project must be given credit as part of the submission, regardless of professional discipline.
5. For multiple building projects, the architect submitting the project (or portion thereof) shall offer detailed evidence of authorship of each portion of the project.
6. Any project that credits any 2009 National AIA Healthcare Design Awards jury member or their firm as architect, associate architect, consultant, or client is ineligible and will be disqualified if submitted.
7. Communication with 2009 National AIA Healthcare Design Awards jurors by the entrants is inappropriate. All architects of award-winning projects will be required to verify they had no written or verbal communication with any 2009 National AIA Healthcare Design Awards juror regarding any submitted project from the time of submittal to completion of the jury process.
Winning entries become the property of the AIA and will be retained in the collections of the AIA Library and Archives.
General Submission Guidelines
1. Project authorship will remain concealed throughout the deliberations of the jury. If the authorship is revealed on any of the images, plans, or narrative, the entry will be disqualified. However, project identity and location are acceptable.
2. Entry fees must accompany each submission. The entry fee is $300.00 per project for AIA members, and $325 for nonmembers.
3. Entry fees and entries must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, February 6th, 2009. The submission deadline date will be strictly observed; no exceptions will be made. No entry fee will be refunded for entries that are disqualified, late, or not completed.
4. Rights to photos, digital images, and plans must be cleared for publication by the entrant. Entrants are responsible for any royalties or copyright photography fees. Before entering, entrants must have the owner's approval to submit the project. Owners must be informed of potential site visits and the significant recognition in the media should the project receive an award.
Project Description Fields
Category A | Category B | Category C | Category D
Graphics and Images Details
Please provide a maximum of 15 digital images to describe the project. Emphasis should be placed on graphics that best inform the jurors about the innovative design solution that has been developed. Warning: Entries with firm names appearing in the photo credit will be disqualified. Images requirements are as follows:
1. Entrants shall submit images in low-resolution JPG files only: no larger than 150 DPI resolution and saved in the .JPG file format with size kept under 200kb.
2. Name each image file descriptively, to the extent possible (examples: GeneralHospital_interior1; GeneralHospital_exteriorNorth)
3. Do not exceed 15 images.
4. Images may be photographs, renderings, and drawings and, if applicable, should include at least one site plan and one floor plan with directional markings
5. Clearly caption each image in the space provided
6. All images must be cleared of copyright. Each entry must be accompanied with a completed and signed copyright release form.