The Institute for Healthy Urban Living (IHUL) spoke at the Building Health 2025 conference in Bucharest this year discussing regenerative practice and the future changes in both clinical technologies and need that will shape hospital building requirements over the next 7 years. The conference was attended by clinicians, architects, academics and engineers and welcome a large number of global experts in a range of fields relating to hospital building health and sustainability.

Many important connections were made between attendees and these will form the basis of exciting project teams of the future.

Professor Brendon Noble, Director of the Institute for Healthy Urban Living said “It was a great honour to be invited to speak at this important global conference.  I was given the opportunity to discuss regenerative practice and the role of horizon viewing in the design of hospital buildings and associated surroundings.  There is an urgent need for horizon scanning to predict changes in clinical demands, shifts towards community medicine and rapidly advancing medical technologies as we plan and design the next generation of healthcare environments.  And while we do that, a regenerative rather than just a sustainable approach should be at the fore, replacing what we have taken away, healing the environmental damage, not simply maintaining the sub optimal status quo.”

The Institute’s role in shaping the future of both the built environment and healthcare models is something that is of great importance to the team.

Please do contact to suggest ways in which IHUL might contribute. For example, which are the important factors that will shape healthcare beyond 2026?