They may not be able to name all 206 bones in the human body, but
Interior Design's 40 health-care Giants are experts when it comes to hospitals,
outpatient facilities, and medical offices. The results from our second annual
ranking show that these firms, including six newcomers, have had their fair
share of practice-overall health-care design fees have nearly doubled since
last year, from $197,266,769 to $345,201,531. And these designers are helping
not only to save lives but also to save the planet: Sustainability has become
integral to this category, 95 percent of the firms say. Today's picture of good
health appears to be tinted green.
The annual business survey of health-care Interior Design Giants ranks
the largest firms by health-care design fees for the 12-month period from July
2005 to June 2006. (In the event of a tie, the firm with the larger dollar
value of installed work is listed first.) Health-care design fees include fees
attributed to:
All health-care interiors work.
All aspects of a firm's health-care design practice, from
strategic planning/programming to design/project management.
Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and
independent contractors who are "full-time staff" equivalent.
Health-care design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and
remitted to subcontractors that are not considered full-time staff equivalent.
For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm.
The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or
generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid
to the latter are not included in the fees of the collecting firm in
determining its ranking. The data was compiled and analyzed by the Interior
Design market research staff in New York: Laura Girmscheid, research manager,
and Candice Lee, research director.
