The National Health Service has hired a new kind of worker for its new acute care hospital in Scotland—the kind that doesn't mind dirty laundry nor is susceptible to infection. Yet these automated orderlies required some special attention in the facility design.
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Sustainability cost/benefit analysis
James Moler of Turner Healthcare reviews how his discussion group at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.07 conference tackled the difficult, sometimes controversial topic of identifying cost/benefit for sustainable design. Moler discusses concepts of “cost” that put the analysis of green design in a new light.
