SAN FRANCISCO – August 15, 2013 – HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) has hired Vince Avallone, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP BD+C, as a certified healthcare architect specializing in medial planning in the San Francisco office.
“Vince is an accomplished medical planner with experience working on a range of healthcare projects nationally,” said Fredric Sherman, FAIA, vice president and director of HGA’s San Francisco office. “He looks at the big picture through the lens of informed code-compliant planning to promote a collaborative, consensus-driven planning and decision-making process. He has a true passion for planning solutions that improve the client’s business model. Vince will prove an asset as we continue to build our healthcare design practice in the Bay Area.”
Avallone has approximately 20 years professional experience as an architect, medical planner, project manager and project architect, with an emphasis on planning and programming for new and renovated healthcare projects. He has additional expertise in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Lean design, process improvement and sustainable design strategies. He currently is working on a clinic relocation project for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and a clinic study for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Before joining HGA, Avallone was a principal and senior medical planner with SmithgroupJJR in San Francisco, where he worked with such clients as Loma Linda University Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Alameda County Medical Center, and Sutter California Pacific Medical Center.
“My role is to be an advocate for thoughtful medical planning and architecture, which fosters quality solutions,” Avallone said. “Sound medical planning and programming is essential to appropriately right-sizing a building and maximizing flexible, value-added space. At HGA, we are committed to a culture of quality solutions, continuous improvements, and learning coupled with action. We continuously challenge and question the team throughout the planning and design process to reach the best solutions possible for the benefit of the project.”
Avallone has a Bachelor of Architecture in Structures from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, certified through the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional. He is a registered architect in California and Illinois.
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