CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE CONSTRUCTOR
CHC COMPLETE COMPILATION BUNDLE
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Facility types common in healthcare projects. Answer: Acute care
hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient/medical office
buildings.
⩥ Complexity of healthcare renovations. Answer: Occupied
environments, patient safety, infection control, life-safety continuity, and
sensitive clinical operations.
⩥ Core stakeholders in a hospital project. Answer: Owner/health system,
facilities, clinical leadership, infection prevention, AE team, GC, subs,
AHJ, commissioning agent.
⩥ Clinical adjacency. Answer: The functional proximity relationships
among clinical departments for efficient patient/staff flow.
⩥ Evidence-based design (EBD). Answer: Design decisions based on
credible research to improve patient outcomes and staff performance.
,⩥ Functional program. Answer: Document that defines services, patient
volumes, room counts, flows, and performance criteria.
⩥ Drivers of room standardization. Answer: Safety/quality and
operational efficiency (training, stocking, maintenance).
⩥ Mock-up. Answer: Full/partial scale model used to test design,
workflows, finishes, and constructability.
⩥ AHJ. Answer: Authority Having Jurisdiction—enforces
codes/standards and approves compliance.
⩥ Essential systems in hospitals. Answer: Essential electrical system,
medical gas/vacuum.
⩥ Patient throughput. Answer: Movement of patients from entry to
discharge; impacts sizing and flows.
⩥ Hybrid OR. Answer: Operating room with integrated imaging (e.g.,
angio/CT) enabling minimally invasive surgery.
⩥ Negative pressure room. Answer: Room maintained below adjacent
pressure to contain airborne contaminants.
, ⩥ Care environment zoning. Answer: Segmentation into sterile,
semi‑restricted, and unrestricted zones.
⩥ Lean in healthcare design/construction. Answer: Method to reduce
waste and improve value/flow for patients/staff.
⩥ Right-sizing. Answer: Balancing capacity, utilization, and future
growth to avoid over/under-building.
⩥ Evidence of need. Answer: Supports regulatory approvals/certificate
of need and business case for projects.
⩥ Clinical equipment coordination tasks. Answer: Clearances/utilities
for imaging equipment; vendor submittals/integration.
⩥ Decanting (in renovations). Answer: A process related to renovations.
⩥ Decanting. Answer: Temporarily relocating units/services to free
space for phased work.
⩥ Wayfinding. Answer: Strategies to help users navigate a facility via
signage, color, landmarks.
CHC COMPLETE COMPILATION BUNDLE
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Facility types common in healthcare projects. Answer: Acute care
hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient/medical office
buildings.
⩥ Complexity of healthcare renovations. Answer: Occupied
environments, patient safety, infection control, life-safety continuity, and
sensitive clinical operations.
⩥ Core stakeholders in a hospital project. Answer: Owner/health system,
facilities, clinical leadership, infection prevention, AE team, GC, subs,
AHJ, commissioning agent.
⩥ Clinical adjacency. Answer: The functional proximity relationships
among clinical departments for efficient patient/staff flow.
⩥ Evidence-based design (EBD). Answer: Design decisions based on
credible research to improve patient outcomes and staff performance.
,⩥ Functional program. Answer: Document that defines services, patient
volumes, room counts, flows, and performance criteria.
⩥ Drivers of room standardization. Answer: Safety/quality and
operational efficiency (training, stocking, maintenance).
⩥ Mock-up. Answer: Full/partial scale model used to test design,
workflows, finishes, and constructability.
⩥ AHJ. Answer: Authority Having Jurisdiction—enforces
codes/standards and approves compliance.
⩥ Essential systems in hospitals. Answer: Essential electrical system,
medical gas/vacuum.
⩥ Patient throughput. Answer: Movement of patients from entry to
discharge; impacts sizing and flows.
⩥ Hybrid OR. Answer: Operating room with integrated imaging (e.g.,
angio/CT) enabling minimally invasive surgery.
⩥ Negative pressure room. Answer: Room maintained below adjacent
pressure to contain airborne contaminants.
, ⩥ Care environment zoning. Answer: Segmentation into sterile,
semi‑restricted, and unrestricted zones.
⩥ Lean in healthcare design/construction. Answer: Method to reduce
waste and improve value/flow for patients/staff.
⩥ Right-sizing. Answer: Balancing capacity, utilization, and future
growth to avoid over/under-building.
⩥ Evidence of need. Answer: Supports regulatory approvals/certificate
of need and business case for projects.
⩥ Clinical equipment coordination tasks. Answer: Clearances/utilities
for imaging equipment; vendor submittals/integration.
⩥ Decanting (in renovations). Answer: A process related to renovations.
⩥ Decanting. Answer: Temporarily relocating units/services to free
space for phased work.
⩥ Wayfinding. Answer: Strategies to help users navigate a facility via
signage, color, landmarks.
