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Bryan Langlands, FAIA, FACHA
Principal | Healthcare Market Leader I NBBJ Fellow
Bryan Langlands, FAIA, FACHA
Principal | Healthcare Market Leader I NBBJ Fellow
An accomplished programmer, planner and designer of academic medical centers, specialty centers and community hospitals, Bryan Langlands is a leader in NBBJ’s healthcare practice. Bryan has dedicated his 30-year career to the transformation of healthcare design, and is widely recognized for his work in standardizing and simplifying procedure, surgical and interventional environments—impacting millions of caregivers, patients and families across the country.
A trusted advisor to hospitals across the country, Bryan known for his focus on the user experience and ability to manage the multitude of needs that arise on major health projects. This has resulted in designs for efficient, cost-conscious and beautiful healthcare environments for major academic medical centers such as NYU Langone Health and Atrium Health, as well as major projects for hospitals across the country. His experience ranges from strategic master planning and programming to planning and design for complex projects often requiring relocations, multiple phases of work, difficult site issues and mediation between constituents.
A noted regulatory expert, Bryan’s leadership appointments to the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) have defined regulatory standards for healthcare facilities across 42 states and for the Federal Government. Bryan is an NBBJ Fellow—which recognizes his lifetime achievement in transforming the profession—and the recipient of the Healthcare Design “HCD10” Team MVP Award. Bryan is a fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects, where he sits on the Board of Regents, and is a frequent presenter at conferences including NY Building Congress and AIA Los Angeles. During the pandemic, Bryan also sat on the Greater New York Hospital Association Surge Capacity Taskforce and regularly contributed to Forbes and Fast Company with recommendations for how hospitals could adapt to an influx of patients.