Healthcare buildings refer to specialized facilities designed and constructed to provide medical services, healthcare treatment and support for patients' well-being. These buildings are essential components of the healthcare infrastructure and encompass a wide range of structures, each serving specific functions within the healthcare system.
The healthcare buildings market consists of sales by entities (organizations, sole traders and partnerships) of healthcare buildings through specialized structures designed and constructed to facilitate the provision of medical services, treatment and care.
The global healthcare buildings market was valued at $243,743.0 million in 2020 which grew till 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 4.00%.
Growing Healthcare Infrastructure Investments
During the historic period, the healthcare buildings market was driven by growing healthcare infrastructure investments. Governments and private sector stakeholders across the world increasingly allocated funding to strengthen healthcare systems, expand hospital capacity, and improve access to medical services. These investments supported the construction of new hospitals, outpatient facilities, and specialized healthcare centers, while also modernizing existing healthcare infrastructure to meet rising patient demand and improve healthcare delivery. For instance, in June 2025, according to New South Wales, a Sydney-based public health authority responsible for planning, funding, and delivering healthcare services, the royal prince Alfred hospital redevelopment was announced by the New South Wales Government to modernize one of Australia's largest public teaching hospitals. The program focused on upgrading acute care capacity, replacing aging infrastructure, improving clinical layouts, and integrating digital health systems to support future healthcare demand while maintaining uninterrupted hospital operations. Therefore, the healthcare buildings market was driven by growing healthcare infrastructure investments during the historic period.
Digitalization, Cloud, Big Data And Cybersecurity
Major companies in the healthcare buildings market are increasingly focusing on leveraging 5G connectivity, edge computing, and private-public network integration to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and strengthen the resilience and security of hospital facilities. These innovations emphasize deploying hybrid 5G networks, network slicing, precise indoor and outdoor geolocation, and AI-enabled healthcare applications to enhance clinical workflows, support telemedicine, and enable advanced visualization techniques in medical procedures. For instance, in January 2026, Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), a France-based public healthcare institution, in collaboration with Bouygues Telecom Business and Ericsson, launched the 5MART HO5PITAL project, aiming to bring 5G coverage across 18 hospital buildings and implement use cases that enhance patient experience, care quality, safety, and professional training. The solution leverages Bouygues Telecom's 5G standalone network and edge computing infrastructure to provide both private and public connectivity within the hospital, while Ericsson supplies the core network and advanced geolocation capabilities through its Network Location (ENL) platform.
The global healthcare buildings market is fragmented, with a large number of small players operating in the market. The top 10 competitors in the market made up 5.79% of the total market in 2024.
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The report covers market characteristics; size and growth; segmentation; regional and country breakdowns; competitive landscape; market shares; trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market's history and forecasts market growth by geography. It places the market within the context of the wider healthcare buildings market; and compares it with other markets.
The report covers the following chapters
- Introduction and Market Characteristics - Brief introduction to the segmentations covered in the market, definitions and explanations about the segments, key products, supply chain and market attractiveness scoring and analysis.
- Key Trends - Highlights the major trends shaping the global market. This section also highlights likely future developments in the market.
- Growth Analysis And Strategic Analysis Framework - Analysis on PESTEL, end use industries, market growth rate, global historic (2020-2025) and forecast (2025-2030, 2035F) market values and drivers and restraints that support and control the growth of the market in the historic and forecast periods, forecast growth contributors and total addressable market (TAM).
- Global Market Size And Growth - Global historic (2020-2025) and forecast (2025-2030, 2035F) market values and drivers and restraints that support and control the growth of the market in the historic and forecast periods.
- Regional And Country Analysis: - Historic (2020-2025) and forecast (2025-2030, 2035F) market values and growth and market share comparison by region and country.
- Market Segmentation: - Contains the market values (2020-2025) (2025-2030, 2035F) and analysis for each segment by facility type, by service type and by healthcare type in the market. Historic (2020-2025) and forecast (2025-2030) and (2030-2035) market values and growth and market share comparison by region market.
- Regional Market Size And Growth: - Regional market size (2025), historic (2020-2025) and forecast (2025-2030, 2035F) market values and growth and market share comparison of countries within the region. This report includes information on all the regions Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa and major countries within each region.
- Competitive Landscape: - Details on the competitive landscape of the market, estimated market shares and company profiles of the leading players.
- Other Major And Innovative Companies: - Details on the company profiles of other major and innovative companies in the market.
- Competitive Benchmarking: - Briefs on the financials comparison between major players in the market.
- Competitive Dashboard: - Briefs on competitive dashboard of major players.
- Key Mergers And Acquisitions: - Information on recent mergers and acquisitions in the market covered in the report. This section gives key financial details of mergers and acquisitions, which have shaped the market in recent years.
- Recent Developments: - Information on recent developments in the market covered in the report.
- Market Opportunities And Strategies: Describes market opportunities and strategies based on findings of the research, with information on growth opportunities across countries, segments and strategies to be followed in those markets.
- Conclusions And Recommendations: This section includes recommendations for healthcare buildings providers in terms of product/service offerings geographic expansion, marketing strategies and target groups.
- Appendix: - This section includes details on the NAICS codes covered, abbreviations and currencies codes used in this report.
Markets Covered:
- 1) By Facility Type: Hospitals; Ambulatory Surgery Centers; Long Term Care Facilities And Nursing Homes; Academic Institutes; Other Facility Types
- 2) By Service Type: New Construction; Refurbishment
- 3) By Healthcare Type: Public Healthcare; Private Healthcare
- Companies Mentioned: Skanska AB; Balfour Beatty plc; DPR Construction; Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.; Hochtief AG
- Countries: China; India; Japan; Australia; South Korea; Taiwan; Indonesia; UK; Germany; France; Italy; Spain; Russia; USA; Canada; Brazil
- Regions: Asia-Pacific; Western Europe; Eastern Europe; North America; South America; Middle East; Africa
- Time-series: Five years historic and ten years forecast.
- Data: Ratios of market size and growth to related markets; GDP proportions; expenditure per capita; healthcare buildings indicators comparison.
- Data segmentations: country and regional historic and forecast data; market share of competitors; market segments.
- Sourcing and Referencing: Data and analysis throughout the report is sourced using end notes.