Urgent care medicine growth is one of the most dramatic and impactful trends that will shape health care in 2023.  

Today’s businesses and organizations are not homogenous. The workforce is multi-generational with Veterans, Baby Boomers, Next-Gen, Millennials and Gen-Z workers. There are workers that do manual labor, handle a large variety and volume of paperwork, manage others, provide highly specialized services, work in the field rather than the office and perform a diversity of duties.

Architects and designers are being called upon to help resolve the inherent conflicts in workplace design beyond this pandemic. The AEC industry is realizing that the community health enigma may be one of the greatest challenges in the commercial sector of their practice. 

This exponential expansion of higher education institutions in the 20th century and a relentless pace of new facilities construction has resulted in a legacy of unmet capital needs for renewal and replacements.

Professional structural engineers have an excellent opportunity to develop more formal connections with emergency service responders and the public through engagement with forensic assessments, strengthening and rehabilitating existing infrastructure, as well as in preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction activities.