Insights

What we have learned designing healthcare facilities.

Research from our healthcare projects, and a plain account of how we use BIM and AI in our work.

Healthcare design practice

Project insight

Hope for the Blind Eye Hospital: designing an eye hospital around nature, art and dignity

How a game-farm eye hospital in Modimolle was planned around the patient journey, views of the bushveld, an integrated art gallery, infection control and locally sourced materials.

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Healthcare design research

Designing a forensic pathology facility: eight planning principles

What LEMEG’s design research found about planning forensic pathology service facilities for public health departments in South Africa.

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Healthcare design research

Hospital categories and levels of care in South Africa

How the Regulations relating to Categories of Hospitals classify public hospitals, and why the category matters before a design brief is written.

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How we work

Our practice

Our BIM in healthcare

How LEMEG Architects uses Building Information Modelling to coordinate hospital design across disciplines.

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Our practice

Our use of AI

Where LEMEG Architects uses an AI assistant, and the rules that keep professional responsibility with the people who sign the work.

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