Marlene J. Berkoff, FAIA
Senior Advisor
San Francisco
415-247-1000
marlene.berkoff@bdcadvisors.com
Marlene has over 25 years experience as a registered architect specializing in strategic facility planning, master planning, project development, and project management for healthcare clients ranging from academic medical centers to community hospitals and ambulatory care facilities. Drawing upon education and experience in economic analysis as well as architecture, she has developed successful methodologies for integrating operational, financial, and organizational requirements with facility needs and capital planning. She helps clients create flexible planning strategies for optimizing facility use in support of their strategic plans, service, and business goals in unpredictable economic environments.
Marlene has managed complex architectural projects from feasibility and concept development, budget and schedule analysis, and programming and design, through construction implementation for large institutional organizations with multi-layered decision-making structures. She has led and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams of technical specialists, including associate architects and engineers, while serving as liaison with client management and multiple stakeholders. Her special expertise is in integrating technical issues of complex facility developments with cost and schedule realities, and helping to align these with client priorities and goals.
Relevant project examples include:
- Direction of all phases of 354,000 sq. ft. expansion of tertiary care level project for Stanford University Hospital, from master planning through construction implementation, including 20 OR surgical suite replacement, critical care beds, imaging service, and clinical laboratories.
- Strategic master plan, operational and cost analysis, and implementation plan for faculty practice ambulatory care clinics and ambulatory surgery, for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
- Direction of master plan, program, and plan for new prototype 300-bed hospital for Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Southern California, including inpatient beds, surgical suites, all diagnostic and treatment facilities, clinics, and support services.
Marlene has worked as a healthcare facility strategist since 1997. From 1993 to 1997, she was a Senior Vice President of Ellerbe Becket, San Francisco, a major international architecture / engineering firm specializing in healthcare. Before that, she was a Principal and Healthcare Studio Director at Kaplan, McLaughlin Diaz, a similar architecture firm in San Francisco. Her early economic analysis experience was at McKinsey & Company in New York.
Marlene is a past President of the American Institute of Architects National Academy of Architecture for Health, former member of the San Francisco AIA Board of Directors, and former President of the national Forum for Healthcare Planning. She is currently President of the Board of Governors at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.
Marlene holds a BA in Economics from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and a B. Arch. and M. Arch. from the University of Michigan College of Architecture. She has lectured and published widely on healthcare architecture planning and project management.