Jefferson Health – Honickman Center

With a 19-story facility in the heart of Philadelphia’s East Market, Jefferson Health wasn’t just looking to consolidate a dozen multidisciplinary clinics into a single building. They were looking to set a new standard for healthcare. To do that they had to streamline the construction process today and minimize operational costs later. Using the DIRTT Construction System gave them a way to check these boxes.

With an exacting off-site construction process, DIRTT offers predictability in cost and schedule, ensuring the project was done on time and on budget. Our unique approach to modular prefab offers design freedom to deliver on Jefferson’s current programmatic needs while giving them the ability to evolve in the future.

This ties in with sustainability, too. Not just as it relates to raw material use and material selection, but how DIRTT supports adaptive reuse. As the world of healthcare evolves, DIRTT’s Design for Disassembly means that upgrading technology or changing the nature of a space can be done quickly and easily without much cost, dust, or downtime. This proved to be of crucial value to Jefferson. When they looked at typical maintenance orders across their organization, they realized DIRTT could deliver a 30 to 70% reduction in cost and labor based on the work at hand. Being able to maintain budget and quality of service, even with reduced number of maintenance staff, ensures the Honickman Center will deliver an elevated patient experience now and into the future.