Dan Stenzel
Vice President of Facades
Market Solutions
Keeping Pace with Demand: How Prefabrication is Building the Future of Healthcare
Ann H. Adams
Principal, Davis Partnership
Emily Johns, AIA
Senior Architect, Davis Partnership
Published in Medical Design & Construction, Dan Stenzel from Wells and Emily Johns and Ann H. Adams from Davis Partnership explore how prefabrication is transforming healthcare construction.
Healthcare projects demand safety, flexibility, and advanced performance, all while staying on tight schedules and budgets. Prefabricated building systems are helping design and construction teams meet these requirements by moving critical work off-site, reducing complexity, and improving predictability.
Integrated wall and facade systems accelerate construction, streamline site logistics, and provide high-performance solutions that are durable, adaptable, and easier to maintain. At the same time, prefabrication enables virtually unlimited design options, allowing healthcare facilities to combine efficiency with bold, patient-focused aesthetics.
Early collaboration, digital tools, and factory-built assemblies position healthcare facilities to meet today’s challenges while preparing for evolving patient, provider, and community needs.
About the Authors
Dan Stenzel
Vice President of Facades
As Vice President of Facades, Dan applies his comprehensive background in preconstruction, estimating, sales, product development and project management to work collaboratively with industry partners implementing new facade designs — effectively changing building envelope design and construction. He applies an understanding of construction materials and methods to help design partners transition concepts to complete building solutions. Dan graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a bachelor’s degree in construction management and minor in business administration and has an AAS degree in Architectural Drafting from South Central College. He is an experienced project manager with a demonstrated history in the construction industry and received his product management certification from Northwestern University in 2021.
Ann H. Adams
Principal, Davis Partnership
Ann Adams, Principal at Davis Partnership, is responsible for programming, master planning, design and construction of healthcare projects ranging in size from small critical access hospitals to large, multi-million-dollar hospitals. Ms. Adams has 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry completing renovations, additions and replacement facilities for hospitals throughout the country. Prior to joining Davis Partnership, Ms. Adams practiced architecture in many different environments: She was a Senior Project Executive with a national program management firm serving as the Owner’s Representative and liaison between the owner and the design and construction teams; an Associate Vice President and Office Director of a national healthcare architectural firm serving major teaching, community and rural hospitals; and spent six years as the senior in-house architect at Memorial Hospital, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a 364-bed hospital and was an active participate in two JCAHO surveys. As a certified member of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), Ann strives to work towards the improvement of healthcare architecture on behalf of the public through better built environments.
Emily Johns, AIA
Senior Architect, Davis Partnership
Emily is a senior architect at Davis Partnership. She is an east coast transplant who grew up in the finger lakes region of New York State. She graduated from SUNY Alfred with a Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture Technology and has recently completed her goal of becoming a licensed architect in Colorado. Emily has almost 9 years’ experience working on a variety of projects ranging from healthcare and government to higher education and aviation. She now works in one of the healthcare studios and enjoys creating spaces that help provide better care to our communities.
