In addition to the questions we asked of participating healthcare architecture/engineering and construction firms that were used to form our annual Corporate Rankings based on 2009 reported figures (see page 51), the HEALTHCARE DESIGN and Healthcare Building Ideas...
Our Annual Top Healthcare Architecture/Engineering Rankings features firms that service the healthcare construction industry. The following rankings are based on information provided by the responding firms.* Figures are self-reported and are not verified by the...
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Las Vegas, Nevada
Project Summary
Project: The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Project Sponsor: Larry Ruvo and Keep Memory Alive
Architect: Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, California
Photography: Eric Kabik/Retna; Matt Carbone Photography; Dahl Photography
Project Construction: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Building Square Footage: 61,000
Total Building Cost: $80 million
The Annual HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference received more than 390 speaker proposal submissions. These proposals were reviewed by a multidisciplinary conference design team with representatives from The Center for Health Design, the Vendome Group, the AIA, ASID, and...
The human brain is a simple piece of complex technology. It works on expectation, not perception. Similar to a computer motherboard, the brain responds predictably with a binary logic to a series of electrical impulses derived from environmental signals received via...
Here's an idea for you: If you are working on a behavioral health project—standalone or part of a larger hospital facility—have a special submittal party to look over everything that goes into the spaces where the patients will be. Every object and every construction assembly has to be ligature-proof. Every fixture and device has to be removal-proof. Every built-in surface has to be looked at to see if the patient can break it, burn it, eat it, or hurt themselves or a staff member with it. Run a 3-D model to make sure that there are no blind spots or hiding places.
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According to Wikipedia, the percentage of American Christians–76%; Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Muslim 4–5%; and 15% have no religious beliefs or affiliations. In the 1900s more than a third of American hospitals were started by women of religious vocations per Say...
I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office yesterday waiting for an appointment. The room was fairly small and typical of most waiting rooms: chairs around the outside of the room with a row of chairs in the middle, end tables with old magazines on them,...
A typical patient arrives at a medical facility welcomed by a room filled with rows of chairs and a few small stacks of magazines, only to wait for a lengthy period of time as they are processed. When getting feedback from some family members about the quality of...
Noise in healthcare is an important concern. Achieving high-performance acoustical design in healthcare facilities is a challenge that often requires decisions balancing competing interests such as visibility versus enclosure, surface maintenance versus sound...
In my last post, I discussed how healthcare legislation and the emphasis on containing costs are offering new opportunities for designers. The golden era of healthcare design is not so much declining as simply entering a new era of innovations leading to greater...
