United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Office of Construction & Facilities Management -
TIL (Standards)

Design Guides

A major update and revision of the VA Design Guides is currently underway. Update will be incremental; completed Guides will be posted on this site and noted as current. As much information in these Guides is dated, it is recommended that they be used with moderate caution to assure that current standards of the health care industry are addressed in meeting VA's needs. A planning/design consultant may be helpful in confirming the validity of project specific data. Please call Office of Construction & Facilities Management, Facilities Quality Service, Donald L. Myers, Senior Architect, 202-461-8298 for assistance.

Design Guides are intended to help you speed the design process, control cost, avoid errors and omissions, and get value for dollars spent. Design guides are developed in partnership with the using service and are benchmarked with similar private sector guides. They are to be applied flexibly, not as rigid standards.

If you have difficulty accessing the content of the PDF files, please contact Satish Sehgal at (202) 461-8216.

The Design Guides are in Adobe PDF