Facility Design Process

Based on our experience with Proton Therapy and related facilities, IBA has developed an Interface Building Document (IBD).

The IBD—unique to IBA—defines the facility interface requirements necessary to support the installation, operation and maintenance of the Proton Therapy system.

The released version of this document establishes the technical baseline of the requirements to be achieved by the facility designers and builders. It also includes a complete set of drawings that reflects the specifications of the Proton Therapy rooms. IBA’s experience with other projects has proven our ability to save considerably on both time and workload for our partners, who are selected in the building design and construction phase.

A key member of the initial team is the IBA facilities interface and construction manager, who is available to advise the facility design teams in their development of building specifications. The facilities interface and construction manager will perform regular checks on the progress of the design and construction of the building, and work with the IBA project manager and facility construction manager to coordinate the earliest availability of the building for equipment installation.

An example is the Florida Proton Therapy Institute. The FPTI facility has been designed to satisfy the clinical and research interests of the project sponsor and system user: the Radiation Oncology Department of the University of Florida Medical School. The numbers and types of treatment rooms and ancillary facilities, such as those related to diagnostics and research, were defined by independently verified economic feasibility studies. The detailed facility design requirements were then set by the clinical user’s functional needs and those related to installation, operation and maintenance of the Proton Therapy system and other equipment.