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Recommendations
631
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTOTYPE DESIGN
The Prototype Design is intended to provide the basic framework for the
eventual development of a complete hospital building system. As such, it
should be continually expanded and refined.
631.1
CONSTRUCT A DEMONSTRATION HOSPITAL
A Veterans Administration hospital project currently in progress should be
selected as the vehicle for demonstration construction and evaluation
(implementation of Step 5 in Section 612.7.1). The demonstration building
should be new construction of a complete hospital to avoid constraints
imposed by an existing building. This should occur in conjunction with the
evaluation program described in Section 631.2 below. The A/E contractor
selected for such a project must be one who is sympathetic with the
systems approach in general, and the Prototype Design in particular, and
who can be expected to fully exploit the functional, economic and
architectural potentials of the system.
631.2
DEVELOP AN EVALUATION PROGRAM
To receive full benefit from a demonstration construction project, it will be
necessary to carefully monitor the entire production process from
inception through occupancy, and systematically evaluate the Prototype
Design in the spirit of testing a hypothesis (See Sections 111.2 and 765.)
631.2.1
Design and Construction
As soon as a specific project is selected as the demonstration for system
design and construction, development of a formal monitoring and
evaluation program should be initiated. If possible, an approximately
concurrent project, to proceed by conventional design and construction,
should be designated the "control" project. Both demonstration and
control projects should be monitored by the same program.
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