INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS

Our international connections and the management’s membership of the International Union of Architects’ (UIA) Public Health Group and other bodies enable the latest in health facilities design to be applied in the firm’s projects.

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY

M. Paatela e.g.:

2007    Specialist advisor in the design development of the new hospital

complex for the Academic Invasive Medical Centre / Medical University of Gdansk, Poland

2007    Specialist advisor in the design development of the Finnish Well-being

Centre in Agano, Japan

2005    Specialist advisor in the design development of the new hospital

building and renovation of the Pohja-Eesti Regional Hospital in Mustamäki, Tallin, Estonia

2002    Consultant and specialist for the City of Sendai, Japan, in the

development of the Well-being Centre Complex in Sendai, Japan

1999    WHO short-term consultant, preparation of a Feasibility Study and

Development Plan for the Luganville District Hospital, Luganville, Vanuatu

1999    WHO short-term consultant, preparation of a Feasibility Study for

a 400-bed hospital for Sulemaniyah, Iraq

1999    Health care planning specialist in the evaluation committee of architect

Alan Dilani‘s doctor‘s thesis, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden

1995 - 2000

Scientific and technological co-operation agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Finland. Permanent Advisor in Hospital Design. Client: Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland / Helsinki University of Technology / Research Institute for Health Care Facilities SOTERA.

1988 - 1994

Member of Finnish expert’s team for technical and scientific co-operation between the USSR and Finland in the programming and design of health care buildings

1990    Building construction specialist in the Health Project Identification and

Planning Mission, Namibia, FINNIDA

LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS

M. Paatela e.g.:

  • 2012    Lecturer at the International Conference for Hospital Planning and

    Building, NHHA/UIA, Oslo, Norway

  • 2011    Lecturer at the Design & Health, 7th World Congress, Boston, USA

  • 2010    Lecturer at the Design & Health Malaysia, International Academy

    for Design and Health Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • 2010    Lecturer at the International Symposium on Excellent Design and

    Planning of Contemporary Healthcare and Wellfare Architecture, Beijing Union Friendship Exchange Center for Architecture, Beijing, P.R.China

  • 2010    Lecturer at the Design & Health / Elderly Care, International Academy

    for Design and Health Seminar, London UK

  • 2009    Lecturer at the Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden

  • 2008    Lecturer at the UIA / Public Health Group Conference, Florance, Italy

  • 2002    Lecturer at the UIA / Public Health Group Conference, Frankfurt,

    Germany

  • 2002    Lecturer at the 7th Congress of the International Federation of

    Hospital Engineering, Trondheim, Norway

  • 2001    Lecturer at the “Forum för Vårdbyggnad”-conference, Malmö, Sweden

  • 2000    Lecturer at the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Academy

    of Architecture for Health Conference “Beyond 2000”, Vancouver, Canada

  • 2000    Lecturer at the UIA / Public Health Group Conference, Stockholm,

    Sweden

  • 1998    Lecture at “98 Beijing International Symposium on Hospital Planning,

    Design and Exhibition of Medical Equipment”, Beiging, P. R. China