Award Categories

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Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)

An outstanding healthcare project in a secondary or tertiary care setting that demonstrates high levels of sustainability and urban integration, creates an effective clinical environment, promotes service improvement, and provides a supportive environment for staff, patients and their families.

Lead judge:

Kate Copeland
Kate Copeland
Chair, Australian Health Design Council, Australia
Healthcare Design (Under 25,000 sqm)

An outstanding healthcare project in a community or primary care setting that demonstrates high levels of sustainability and urban integration, transforming the quality of care services in an accessible location, and supporting the integrated needs of staff, patients and the community. Submissions may include but are not restricted to GP premises,

Lead judge:

David Powell
David Powell
Project director, Velindre Cancer Centre; Development director & Exec Lead for Innovation, Alder Hey
Mental Health Design

A mental health project that, through innovative design thinking, achieves a reconciliation between the needs of the patient/resident for a humanistic environment that supports ongoing therapy, care and recovery, and the requirement for appropriate levels of safety, security and supervision.

Lead judge:

Beatrice Fraenkel
Beatrice Fraenkel
Director, Design in Mental Health Network, UK
Design for Adaptation and Transformation

An outstanding healthcare project that has had a transformational impact on resolving complex and difficult service design challenges. Submissions may include but are not restricted to conversions, extensions, infills, refurbishments, exterior projects, and field hospitals.

Lead judge:

Jim Chapman
Jim Chapman
Visiting Professor, Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Future Healthcare Design

A future healthcare project that can demonstrate the potential for outstanding outcomes in masterplanning, place making, wellness, pandemic preparedness and sustainable development, in alignment with the strategic requirements of the healthcare provider to transform their services within the wider community, regional or national health system.

Lead judge:

Clifford Harvey
Clifford Harvey
Joint Vice President Redevelopment, Grand River Hospital/St. Mary’s General Hospital, Canada

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Design for Health and Wellness

An inspirational project that encompasses services outside of traditional healthcare settings and, through an alignment of the care philosophy with the design of the environment, helps promote positive behaviours towards healthy living and wellness.

Lead judge:

John Cooper
John Cooper
Chair, European Healthcare Design; director, John Cooper Architecture, UK
Design for Sustainable Development

(In collaboration with European Health Property Network)


An exemplar healthcare project completed over 5 years ago that has demonstrated fitness for purpose, flexibility and high performance over time, adapting to new service configurations and meeting international standards in sustainability, including social, economic, human and environmental factors.

Lead judge:

Jonathan Erskine
Jonathan Erskine
Director, European Health Property Network
Product and Technology Design Innovation

An innovation in medical or digital technology or product design that has had a transformational impact on the design of healthcare services and/or the patient environment, improving the quality, sustainability, accessibility and experience of care.

Lead judge:

Danny Gibson
Danny Gibson
Health Facility Planner & Director at MJ Medical
Interior Design and Arts

An inspirational project that demonstrates exceptional skill in creating a compassionate healthcare environment that reflects and communicates the values of the healthcare provider through the integrated application of interior design with the visual arts.

Lead judge:

Ruth Charity
Ruth Charity
Arts co-ordinator, artlink, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, UK
Design Research Project

An independently assessed, completed and novel research study that can demonstrate innovation, relevance and practical application. The research should be original, showing critical thinking in a new field of investigation or by applying innovative methods and analysis to existing issues.

Lead judge:

Göran Lindahl
Göran Lindahl
Associate professor, Chalmers University, Sweden

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Health and Life Sciences

An outstanding health and life sciences project that promotes the development of medical knowledge and innovation in areas such as training and education, clinical research, informatics and artificial intelligence, drug discovery and healthcare delivery, with a focus to improve patient and population health outcomes.

Lead judge:

Peter Ward
Peter Ward
Director of Real Estate Development, King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation