In late 2019, the building team behind Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va., didn’t know that virtual reality mock-ups that users could walk through with a headset would be key to its $300-million hospital expansion project.
At the time, the hospital board was asking Robins & Morton to construct traditional physical mock-ups of patient rooms and operating rooms so that doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel could tell project managers exactly what they needed to do their jobs.