Modular Design and Pre-Fabrication: Building a Flexible Future

Tom Jung has over 30 years in the healthcare design field, with a primary focus on regulatory compliance and coordination. Spending 24 years with the New York State Department of Health’s Certificate of Need Program, Tom directed the effort for 16 of those years while overseeing the review and approval of more than $2 billion dollars of new projects annually. He is a founding member of The Center for Health Design’s Environmental Standards Council, and attributes that first and ongoing experience as a major influence on the nature of his communication with the designers and providers seeking state licensure.

Tom has also been intimately involved with development of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities since 1997, including Facilities Guidelines Institute board membership between 2003 and 2014, and served as CEO of the Facility Guidelines Institute for one year, stepping down in February 2015. He presently consults with a select number of clients on a limited basis.

Victoria is a Regional Director in the Planning, Design and Construction Department at Advocate Aurora Health. Advocate Aurora is the 10th largest integrated not-for-profit health system in the United States serving communities in both Illinois and Wisconsin. With a comprehensive array of health care resources and access points, Advocate Aurora has a broad portfolio of offerings from primary and specialty care, to hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and home care. Advocate Aurora has more than 500 locations including 28 hospitals and is among Illinois and Wisconsin’s largest private employers with more than 77,000 employees and providers.

Victoria spent most of her professional career in the planning, design and construction of health care facilities. Victoria provides strategic direction and oversight to both system-wide and regional based capital construction projects including the management of healthcare facilities and corporate real estate portfolio. During the past 22 years, Victoria has served as senior healthcare planner for national architectural firms providing the highest-level planning and design expertise to healthcare clients guiding organizations to improved performance by applying lean processes. She has delivered over $1 billion in forward focused capital projects, leading teams to analyze and solve complex challenges and achieve successful enterprise-level improvements. As a key team leader on the first LEED Healthcare Gold Certified hospital project in the Midwest, Victoria implemented standardized facility operations and room design, using modular and prefabricated construction. She led integrated project delivery teams using master service agreements that established shared risk and reward incentives with our preferred providers. She has earned the trust of hospital leadership with her knowledge of clinical operations, industry best practices, evolving technology, and lean principles. Victoria is Founder and Leader of the Lean Construction Institute Milwaukee Community of Practice, Editorial Advisory Board Member for Healthcare Design Magazine, Founding Executive Board Member for She Builds, Board of Director for Acts Housing, 2019 recipient of the MVP Leader Award for Advocate Aurora Health, 2019 recipient of the Lean Construction Institute Chicago Community of Practice’s 3rd Annual Bob Krier Award, 2020 recipient of the Milwaukee Business Journal Woman of Influence Award , 2021 recipient of the Daily Reporter Icon of Construction Award and 2021 recipient of Built Worlds Maverick Award. She has a Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management from Loyola University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
 

Nate joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2020. In this role, he is responsible for the Clinic’s Construction and Engineering programs.  Under his leadership, he is tasked with ensuring every facility is designed and constructed to the clinic’s exacting quality standards to address patient needs.  This encompasses a footprint of 40 million square feet in the enterprise covering three states and four countries.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Nate worked at the Defense Health Agency as the Facilities Executive leading a staff of 400 civilian and military multi-disciplined professionals in the lifecycle management of a $38B global healthcare infrastructure with a $3B capital and operations budget.   He developed policy; programmed budgets and resources while managing projects in 54 medical centers, 620 medical and dental clinics encompassing 90 million square feet and 4,700 beds at more than 270 locations around the globe.

The assignment at the Defense Health Agency culminated Nate’s 20+ year career as a Navy Civil Engineer Corps Officer, where he held a succession of appointments, with increasing responsibility, in numerous countries and across multiple deployments.  Nate led construction, facilities management, environmental research and development, logistics, and equipment systems procurement for the US Navy and Department of Defense. 

Nate holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from The University of Maryland, along with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Nate holds a Professional Engineer’s license in Ohio as well as CHFM certification from the American Hospital Association. 

As a licensed physician and architect, George Tingwald, MD, is one of only a handful of people nationwide with the dual designations of MD and AIA (American Institute of Architects), and he has devoted his career to creating innovative health care environments. Tingwald previously was Director of Health and Science at the leading architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP and served as the Director of Planning for California Pacific Medical Center’s five-campus master plan in San Francisco. He also has extensive speaking experience at local San Francisco and national conferences. George was a Changemaker Award recipient from The Center for Health Design in 2021.

Before joining DIRTT, Chelsea worked as a Nurse Manager and has 10 years acute care experience. Chelsea knows firsthand the performance expectations patients and their families, medical staff, facility managers and owners have of their built environment. With that insight, Chelsea helps healthcare providers and architects, designers and general contractors leverage DIRTT’s unique approach to industrialized construction to benefit all stakeholders.
 

Dan Carlton is the visionary behind Mark III’s mission to lead the evolution of construction. As President and majority owner of Mark III Construction and it’s respective LLC’s (M3 MEP, M3 Service, and M3 Components) he is responsible for all strategic and business aspects of the companies. Dan has been the vision and strategic leader behind M3’s components business and will stop at nothing until we have exposed the world to a new way to build.