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AIA Healthcare Design Awards Include Two Projects in the Carolinas

by GroundBreak Staff Report on

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) is recognizing eight projects with its 2020 Healthcare Design Awards. This year’s best healing spaces include two projects located in the Carolinas.

Award-Winners – South Carolina and North Carolina

  • Hampton County Health Clinic, Varnville, South Carolina | Liollio Architecture – Built: Less than $25 million (construction cost).
Hampton County Health Clinic
  • Duke Student Wellness Center, Durham, North Carolina | Duda|Paine Architects – Built: More than $25 million (construction cost).
Duke Student Wellness Center

This national awards program, which highlights trends in healthcare facility designs, recognize cutting-edge designs that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban and social problems while also being functional and sustainable. Recipients can include healthcare building design, healthcare planning and healthcare design-oriented research. This year’s projects were awarded by a seven-person jury in the following categories.

Visit AIA’s website for more information on the AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards.

About AIA

Founded in 1857, AIA consistently works to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through more than 200 international, state and local chapters, AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public wellbeing.

AIA provides members with tools and resources to assist them in their careers and business as well as engaging civic and government leaders and the public to find solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation, and world. Members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct to ensure the highest professional standards.