Public Comment Period Opens for

Draft 2026 FGI Facility Code

The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) announces that July 1, 2024, marks the opening of the three-month public comment period for the draft 2026 FGI documents for design and construction of hospitals; outpatient facilities; and residential health, care, and support facilities. In addition, FGI announces that the 2026 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction documents will be renamed the FGI Facility Code. 

The FGI Facility Code public comment site is accessible at https://www.fgiguidelines.net. The public comment period is open to all users of the FGI Facility Code documents, and all revisions to the documents are available for public review. As usual, only recommendations, comments, or opinions to change language that have been approved for addition, revision, or deletion by the Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) will be considered during this phase of the revision cycle. No new proposals for change will be considered at this time. The public comment period will close on September 30, 2024.

Once the public comment period closes, opinions and comments received from the public will be reviewed and voted on by the HGRC. Revisions approved by the HGRC will appear in the 2026 FGI Facility Code, scheduled for release in early 2026. The complete drafts can be found at https://fgiguidelines.org.

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Graduate architecture student Cory Hoffman’s favorite work of architecture is not a single building, but an entire town. “Columbus, Indiana is home to great works of architecture from Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche, and I.M. Pei,” said Cory. “Each building is individually important to Columbus’ ecosystem and has its own unique style, and yet this mid-size town still feels cohesive.” Cory, who is enrolled in the Master of Architecture program at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is the 2024 recipient of MAF’s Daniel W. Toshach & AIA Saginaw Valley Chapter Scholarship. READ MORE