{"id":5905,"date":"2021-02-11T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/2021\/02\/11\/evaluating-initial-building-designs-considering-possible-future-changes-and-decision-flexibility-the-example-of-the-new-pet-centre-of-the-university-hospital-of-zurich\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:04:16","slug":"evaluating-initial-building-designs-considering-possible-future-changes-and-decision-flexibility-the-example-of-the-new-pet-centre-of-the-university-hospital-of-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/2021\/02\/11\/evaluating-initial-building-designs-considering-possible-future-changes-and-decision-flexibility-the-example-of-the-new-pet-centre-of-the-university-hospital-of-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating Initial Building Designs Considering Possible Future Changes and Decision Flexibility: The Example of The New PET Centre of the University Hospital of Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uncertainty on the future treatments demand, recently evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, makes it\u00a0challenging for hospitals managers to determine the optimal design of new clinics. Flexibility can help in optimally minimizing\u00a0the service risks when the benefits of the investments justify the costs, considering the dynamism of treatment demand.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0this work the real options process is used to rigorously determine the best design for the new clinic of nuclear medicine of the\u00a0university hospital of Zurich. The results suggest that when some flexibility is embedded in the initial design, the estimated\u00a0net benefit over the clinic’s lifetime is 167.18 million CHF, which is 2.2% and 20% higher than the other two fix designs\u00a0considered. Conclusions are then drawn on the advantages and limitations in using the real option process to optimize the\u00a0design of a new hospital clinic, and suggestions are outlined for the further development of its use in practice.<\/p>\n

Article published in: International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction,\u00a0Vol 9, No 4, December 2020, 12020021, 1-21<\/em><\/p>\n

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The uncertainty on the future treatments demand, recently evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, makes it\u00a0challenging for hospitals managers to determine the optimal design of new clinics. Flexibility can help in optimally minimizing\u00a0the service risks when the benefits of the investments justify the costs, considering the dynamism of treatment demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"departemente":[194,226,105],"newsletter_ausgabe":[300],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen","departemente-departement-bau-umwelt-und-geomatik-d-baug","departemente-institut-fuer-bau-und-infrastrukturmanagement-ibi","departemente-prof-dr-bryan-t-adey","newsletter_ausgabe-nl-49"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":18,"label":"Publikationen"}],"departemente":[{"value":194,"label":"Departement Bau, Umwelt und Geomatik (D-BAUG)"},{"value":226,"label":"Institut f\u00fcr Bau- und Infrastrukturmanagement (IBI)"},{"value":105,"label":"Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey"}],"newsletter_ausgabe":[{"value":300,"label":"NL 49"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Figure1-scaled-1-1024x399.jpg",1024,399,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Yaxin Hou","author_link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/author\/houya\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":18,"name":"Publikationen","slug":"publikationen","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":392,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":18,"category_count":392,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Publikationen","category_nicename":"publikationen","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter_ausgabe?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}