Planning
Community Hub for Health and Wellness
The roadmap for a successful journey.
Our approach to planning removes doubt, adds clarity, and creates alignment around size, budget, timing, and execution. But it’s more than making on time, on budget possible. It’s also how we help you bring your big, bold ideas to life.
Best Practices at Every Phase
Highly Experienced Planners
Six members of DesignGroup’s staff are fully accredited and dedicated planners with expertise in your project type and market.
Facilitated Planning Work Sessions
We come in prepared to challenge assumptions and uncover opportunities at the highest strategic levels. Clients love the experience and how it helps them prioritize and focus on what matters.
A Guideline for Future Success
Our planning and programming Is highly detailed and actionable; every sequence and role is clearly defined. It provides future proofing for years down the road.
Designed for Comprehension
We help distill capital decisions into a single view for executives to make decisions. Planning is all about time, resources, and expenses. We help you communicate what each stakeholder persona needs to see and understand the facility and process.
Total Cost Analysis
Planning includes everything from raw materials to labor to interior finishes, furniture, and technology.
Simulations Give You Confidence
Data simulations help us understand a building’s performance and how it can be improved. Simulations reveal the difference between historical metrics and real, volume-based need.
Community Hub for Health and Wellness
A Tailored Framework for Confident Decision Making
Visioning
Client Vision Workshopping, User Persona Definition, Defining Nirvana, Stakeholder Engagement, Consensus and Prioritization
Strategy
Master Planning, Operations, Market Assessment, Decision-Making Frameworks
Planning
Functional and Space Programming, Workflow and Staff Optimization, Budget Assessment, Test Fits, Option Development and Analysis, Simulation, Detailed Budgeting for Total Project Cost
Assessment
Feasibility and Utilization Studies, Site Evaluation, Benchmarking, Current- and Future-State Mapping, Qualitative Analysis
Five Years and Counting: DesignGroup Pittsburgh Celebrates a Milestone
It’s an understatement to say our expansion into Pittsburgh has gone well. In fact, it has exceeded all expectations. A big part of that success is building the right team, and it started with Managing Partner Tom Chidlow.
DesignGroup Managing Principal Elliott Bonnie Retires
It’s hard to imagine DesignGroup without Elliott in the building. He leaves in his wake a legacy of groundbreaking healthcare projects, long-lasting partnerships, and a meaningful influence on the way we approach work and life.
Meet the planning team.
DesignGroup planners and strategists ask good questions, listen intently, and build strong collaborative relationships. It’s the key to understanding how to move your organization into the future.
Alan Schlossberg
AIA, LEED AP
Principal, Regional Practice Group Leader
Angela Kolosky
ACHA, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C
Principal, Healthcare Planning Market Leader
Take Your Next Step Here
This could be the start of something great. For your organization. Or your career.
We encourage you dive deeper into our thought leadership or contact us to start a discussion.