Vendome Group, publishers ofHEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine, The Center for Health Design, and Nurture by Steelcase have recently announced a unique opportunity for architecture and design students to participate in a conceptual healthcare design competition. Challenged...
Earlier this week, Healthcare Building Ideas reported the results of an industry-wide construction hiring and business survey conducted by the American General Contractors and Navigant, showing construction firms are considering and planning on adding to their construction staff or keeping their staff numbers as they are, instead
In October, HKS, Inc., launched its new endeavor, the nonprofit Center for Advanced Design Research & Evaluation (CADRE), which is dedicated to improving the design industry’s understanding of the built environment and exploring new ideas that inform design.
A good estimate is a powerful tool to start a project off correctly. An architect I worked for astutely tracked three items on each project: the winning bid, the project estimate during the CD phase, and the spread between all bids received. His purpose was twofold:...
Tension. There is a paradigm shift that designers and architects are experiencing with the ‘Leaning’ of healthcare and the looming questions as it regards to healthcare reform. With this paradigm shift there is a tension that is emerging between maintaining the...
We are all patients at one time or another. We all have the experience of going to a healthcare facility—whether a community clinic, hospital or outpatient center. And while we don’t necessarily have the opportunity to design the facilities we visit, we do have the...
Take a large group of healthcare designers and healthcare professionals and ship them off to Las Vegas for a conference and see what happens. The result was HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10, which was held November 13-16, 2010. While there was an amazing exchange of knowledge...
In a recentblog post, Jennifer Kovacs, Managing Editor of HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine, talked about our recent visit to University Hospitals' new Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio. The trip really was a privilege as it gave the editorial team a chance to see a...
Over the past few years, alcohol dispensers along with hand washing sinks have become the standard in most healthcare settings. To a large extent it seems to be a duplication of efforts. We may actually be in a transitional time where no one is comfortable with moving...
C. diff, or Clostridium difficile, has created a challenge when designing for a hospitality feel in an acute care setting. Typically, carpeting is used to create a softer image, lower general foot traffic noise, and increase the overall level of design. Per the Center for Disease Control (CDC), "Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming, gram-positive anaerobic bacillus that produces two exotoxins: toxin A and toxin B.
As the new year opens and many of us return to work after an all-too-brief holiday break, notices of slight upturns in the construction industry have started to surface: Construction employment either increased or remained steady in a growing number of metropolitan areas–120 of 337–between November 2009 and November 2010, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America.
We all do it, every year at this time—we begin to think about repenting our holiday overindulgences and aspire to refocus on what we attempted to accomplish last year at this time. It always starts with goals to exercise more, eat healthier, spend less, and be a...
