Flexibility and adaptability are valuable in contemporary healthcare design; the problem is that they are rarely free. What are the primary elements of flexibility and adaptability (which are not identical) and what do they cost? This panel presentation proposes a model of developing a process to identify opportunities for flexibility and adaptability, their benefits and their costs in the early phases of design. The session enables attendees to:
•Define the difference between flexibility and adaptability and identify primary and likely flexibility/adaptability design options.
•State the benefits of developing an Evaluation Matrix for these options.
•Develop a sense of the relative costs of these options.