De Jager, PetaAbbott, GParsons, S2009-08-282009-08-282009-04De Jager, P, Abbott, G and Parsons, S. 2009. From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings. 5th Global Conference and Exhibition American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Cape Town, South Africa, 21-23 April, 2009. pp 1-35http://hdl.handle.net/10204/35475th Global Conference and Exhibition American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Cape Town, South Africa, 21-23 April, 2009Transforming bits of a strategic plan into physical infrastructure requires the preparation of briefing documents for the professional team. This task is both complex and specialised, particularly in the case of health-care infrastructure. Furthermore preparation of a brief lies beyond the scope of work of standard services provided by architects and other built environment professionals. For structural configuration reasons, there are strong variations in the methods to preparing these documents, and strong variations in the resulting building infrastructure. Some formalisation of the briefing system, which may involve a combination of interventions such as installation of national norms, standards, and guidelines, compulsory peer review mechanisms, and human capital development (there are few specialised courses in South Africa to address health-care building design or briefing) may well yield improved hospital buildings. This paper explores the ways in which briefing documents are prepared for public sector hospitals both in South Africa and abroad. Notwithstanding the particular opportunities and challenges of the context, to what extent should South Africa formalise briefing procedures in order to improve hospital buildings?enHospital buildingBuilding performance criteriaBriefing systemHealth system performance frameworkPublic sector hospitalsHealth-care building designHealthcare environmentConstruction briefingAmerican Society for Training and DevelopmentASTD 2009Health-care infrastructureConference PresentationDe Jager, P., Abbott, G., & Parsons, S. (2009). From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings. Mindsystems. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3547De Jager, Peta, G Abbott, and S Parsons. "From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3547De Jager P, Abbott G, Parsons S, From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings; Mindsystems; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3547 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - De Jager, Peta AU - Abbott, G AU - Parsons, S AB - Transforming bits of a strategic plan into physical infrastructure requires the preparation of briefing documents for the professional team. This task is both complex and specialised, particularly in the case of health-care infrastructure. Furthermore preparation of a brief lies beyond the scope of work of standard services provided by architects and other built environment professionals. For structural configuration reasons, there are strong variations in the methods to preparing these documents, and strong variations in the resulting building infrastructure. Some formalisation of the briefing system, which may involve a combination of interventions such as installation of national norms, standards, and guidelines, compulsory peer review mechanisms, and human capital development (there are few specialised courses in South Africa to address health-care building design or briefing) may well yield improved hospital buildings. This paper explores the ways in which briefing documents are prepared for public sector hospitals both in South Africa and abroad. Notwithstanding the particular opportunities and challenges of the context, to what extent should South Africa formalise briefing procedures in order to improve hospital buildings? DA - 2009-04 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Hospital building KW - Building performance criteria KW - Briefing system KW - Health system performance framework KW - Public sector hospitals KW - Health-care building design KW - Healthcare environment KW - Construction briefing KW - American Society for Training and Development KW - ASTD 2009 KW - Health-care infrastructure LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 T1 - From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings TI - From is to ought - formalising public sector briefing for hospital buildings UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3547 ER -