Stan Chiu of HGA Architects & Engineers Stan Chiu of HGA Architects & Engineers

Prefabricated and modular construction is rapidly rising in popularity for healthcare developers and providers. Modular construction is not only more cost effective and has a faster construction timeline—two benefits that have attracted multifamily and hotel developers—the standardized facilities that come with modular construction also create more efficient operations and provide a better patient experience.

“For integrated teams, there has been a surge in ground-up prefab as a more efficient way of delivering projects,” Stan Chiu of HGA Architects & Engineers, tells GlobeSt.com. “That is about saving time and money, and sometimes could be about increasing quality. You can generally hold that under creating more value. Parallel to that, there is a strategic angle as well. Organizations are looking at prefabrication as a way of returning better value and as a way of establishing standards that will live past the construction and onto the operation of the environment. It is a way of creating consistency from project to project.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.