For the healthcare design professional, specifying a patient room color palette is a little like color forecasting: specifying surface and furnishing colorations that will remain trendy for several years but yet still be consistent with the latest design-related,...
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Status of your firm in September of 2009
As we enter September of 2009 and the architecture and construction markets continue to fluctuate, our firm is... 44.44% - Beginning to see more business 33.33% - Still finding new projects difficult to come by 22.22% - Still being affected significantly by the...
Three Things Your Organization Should Know
We get a lot of questions from new clients about creating a successful facility management plan. Here are three things that every organization should know before meeting with a facility management company: 1. Your Organization’s Vision The most important thing for any...
Who do you get input from when designing?
When designing or renovating a facility, we get input from... 0.00% - Patients and families 26.00% - Physicians and nurses 74.00% - All of the aforementioned parties 0.00% - We don't find it necessary or helpful to get their input COMMENTS - Designing a space requires...
Planning for an overbuild, Part two: Construction planning
Planning to expand your healthcare facility? Careful construction planning is necessary to ensure a smoothly executed project in a fully occupied facility with active MEP systems and a lot of daily activity that cannot be disrupted.
Returns from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Has the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act returned any new orders, contracts, hiring, or other changes in your company?
10.42% – Yes
81.25% – No
8.33% – Not yet, but we expect it to
COMMENTS
– Still waiting for the trickle down.
– The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a huge waste of our tax dollars.
"Sam's NICU": Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Renovation, Morristown Memorial Hospital — Click to View
What design-build should be: The ‘fully integrated’ firm
Design-build, whatever that may mean, is being heralded as the future of the AEC industry. It lies at the core of the AIA's Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model, among others. Almost all “design-build” projects today are orchestrated patchworks of separate...
Rooks County Health Center
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St. Anthony Regional Hospital – Surgery Center — Click to View
Forsyth Medical Center – North Pavilion — Click to View
Sanford Children's Hospital
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