Cardboard treatment: AHN simulates Wexford Hospital the old-fashioned way

AHN Wexford's cardboard model (Pittsburgh Business Times)

WEXFORD, Pa. — When the AHN Wexford Hospital opens sometime in 2021, it will have the benefit of extensive prep work that had been done several years before in a cavernous warehouse in Zelienople.

That’s because Allegheny Health Network, even before the first brick was laid, took a detailed approach to the design of the 160-bed hospital off Route 19: AHN and its architects, HKS Inc., built a full-scale cardboard mock-up of several parts of the hospital.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times. 

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