Abstract
The study develops a conceptual design of a health care facilities planning system which satisfies the requirements for an effective planning process. The automated system is designed as an array of subroutines controlled by a flexible executive program capable of reading various classifications of health care demand data. (For the purposes of the study a quantitative measure of demand is assumed.) The output of the automated facilities planning process is a space schedule--the essence of a facilities description necessary to determine costs and proceed with design. Planning, design and construction techniques are wholly inadequate to efficiently produce the quantity of structures which our society requires within the next 30 to 50 years. Growing bodies of knowledge address discrete aspects of the building process but little attention has been awarded to the space planning function. ...
Sarbach, Douglas Lowry (1972). Toward an automated health care facilities planning information system in the United States Air Force. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -186048.