Sabal, with more than four decades of industry
experience, joins HFA to lead a growing team
focused on challenging design norms in the healthcare
industry.
BENTONVILLE, Ark., March 28,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HFA Architecture +
Engineering has expanded its healthcare design team with the
addition of Principal and Healthcare Practice
Leader Paul Sabal (AIA,
ACHA, NCARB, LEED AP).
Sabal is a registered architect and interior designer with more
than four decades of experience in healthcare design and
construction. He is board-certified in healthcare architecture from
the American College of Healthcare Architects.
"HFA is uniquely positioned to provide innovative healthcare
clients with project design and delivery strategies that lower
costs, improve quality, automate processes and increase speed to
market," Sabal said. "I am confident we will build HFA into the
leading provider of such solutions for the U.S. healthcare
industry."
Sabal has cultivated an innovative and strategic approach to
healthcare facility planning and design services for the in-patient
and ambulatory healthcare markets. At HFA, his focus includes
helping healthcare clients better adapt to rising construction
material costs, skilled labor shortages and supply-chain
stresses.
"As a former business partner, Paul used his mastery of
healthcare planning and design to help drive the success and
vigorous growth of our previous firm, which sold just before the
pandemic," noted HFA Vice President Steven Warlick (LEED AP). "He brings to the
table an unparalleled understanding of post-COVID challenges in the
healthcare design arena. We are poised for acceleration as Paul
steps onto the 'launchpad' at HFA, leading the way with innovative
solutions for our client partners."
"It's thrilling to welcome someone of Paul's caliber and
expertise to our team at HFA," said HFA CEO Dave Wilgus (AIA, NCARB). "Paul brings his
talent, experience and a transformative energy that elevates us to
new heights. Paul is more than a mere addition to HFA's healthcare
team; he is a next-level multiplier. We're excited to have him on
board, and we look forward to the remarkable contributions he'll
undoubtedly make in the future."
Sabal, who has lived in the West County area of St. Louis for 27 years, spent the past five
years as Director of Architecture for St.
Louis-based Vestal Corporation. From the outset of his
career, starting with his first job out of college for a
design-build company in Austin, he
has advocated alternative project-delivery methods and accelerated
design and construction schedules.
In particular, he stresses the value of interdisciplinary
collaboration among clients, designers, engineers, contractors,
subcontractors and trades—an approach that yields better quality,
faster schedules and lower costs.
Concludes Sabal, "At HFA, our goal has to be to provide our
clients, not only with innovative and creative healthcare designs,
but also with pioneering project-delivery solutions that preserve
budgets, standardize quality and increase the speed-to-market of
their projects."
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