ArcSPSpace Program Capabilities

Sample Screens 

By Hector A. Patrucco, AIACEO

Medical Architecture 2005

MEDICAL ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION

The following document serves as a demonstration of the arcSP Space Program interactive capabilities. This tool has been

developed to assist Healthcare Institutions, Architects, Developers and others wishing to quickly and accurately determine the size and

cost of an acute care hospital.

Only partial screens and departments are depicted. All rooms are calculated and indicated in their appropriate departments by name and area, including net/gross areas of all hospital departments plus

construction cost.

PROGRAMMING PROCEDURE

START-UP SCREENData is entered in the available yellow boxes, such as the total facility bed number and construction cost per square foot. And it is possible to choose Metric or English

area as a working method as-well-as the preferred language.

Enter BedsEnter Beds

Enter CostEnter CostTotal AreaTotal Area

Total CostTotal Cost

The program automatically calculates the total facility area and its construction cost. All rooms and departments are calculated instantly.

Clicking on DEPARTMENTAL TOTALS takes us to a list of hospital departments.

Departmental Totals Screen

The totals here indicated for each department represent a first approximation based on the total number of facility beds.

This first level of input, although the the fastest, lacks detailed accuracy.

A more appropriate method based on service workload and utilization factors would be the following:

- to start let’s choose a department such as Surgery.

arcSP determines 2 General Operating Rooms using workload assumptions as indicated in the same row, such as: Hours of Procedure, % of Annual Growth, Days per Year of Operation, Peak Hours of departmental operation (ex: 7am-

7pm or 7-11am), and % of Daily Load at Peak Hours (ex: 66%).

Either starting from scratch or leaving other Operating Rooms as they were calculated by the bed number originally, we enter for example 6,354 procedures under CHANGE SPC LOAD on the Operating Room, General row.

WORKLOAD SCREEN - SURGERY

The following 3 partial screens show the Inpatient Surgery Room-by-Room List.

Room Space Program

The area and quantity of spaces is indicated as well as the appropriate grossing factor allowances for Circulation and Walls and Structure that could also be changed. Cost of construction that originally was entered as $225.00 can be modified in each department.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONSThe program offers various levels of accuracy. Users can input just the number of beds and cost of construction for a gross bulk number or change almost all parameters and narrow down to precise program assumptions as shown with surgery above. Data can be entered constantly and as many times as desired and results become updated accordingly.  This extremely versatile and powerful fixture allows for endless “what/if” scenarios to study the type of facility performance that better responds to the desired hospital function and available construction budget.

Adding data as the work progresses automatically factor the incidence of load on various support services. For example: the workload of the Hospital Laundry becomes adjusted proportionally to any entry within other services that require Linen. And the Administrative Services also grow accordingly. Please do not hesitate to contact Hector A. Patrucco, AIA if you have additional questions. He is currently on assignment in Brazil and can be located at 55 22 9836-9829 or by e-mail skultura@skultura.net .