Some of the key concepts to take care of when you are making designs for a building are as below:
Future-proofing the building
It is essential to ensure future plans to expand the hospital is going to go about without a hiccup. This generally extends the lifespan of the hospital. An example would be houses that house bulky machines such as MR scanners and the likes generally be positioned in an area where the machines can be removed or replaced with ease. In addition to this, the transfer becomes easier when the machine is placed near the outer wall. The hospital should have some large electrical feeders to enable the inclusion of heavy machinery later on in the future. This ensures the hospital is future-proofed.
Designers should anticipate the growth in the number of beds and plan for the inclusion of additional departments to support this. To aid this research into changing demographics in the population and keep all that has been learned in close consideration during the design process of the hospital (Hospital Design Principles, 2019).
 
Social impact of the design
This centers around the impact the design will have on humanitarian issues. Regarding hospital architecture, the question should revolve around poor health in civil societies architects may implement a more wide-stretching concept revolving around a business concept, the notion of the Triple Bottom line. What this does is that it broadens a company’s outlook to include not only just the financial bottom line but also the social and environmental responsibility. By approaching the design with a TBL in mind architects can look at building hospitals that do not just benefit the patients but also the larger communities. Social impact becomes paramount when approaching the question of how many beds a hospital should hold whilst taking into account the office spacing in the hospital (Hospital Design Principles, 2019)
Increased privacy
Privacy is a matter of concern to patients when their emotional and mental well being is called into question. One way is to design better privacy accommodations into healthcare settings is to provide single occupancy rooms where possible instead of multi-occupancy rooms which are more common in third world countries. This also improves the prevention of hospital-based transmission of infections.