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In our healthcare projects, linking design with healthy behaviors (e.g. bike paths, prominent staircases) is:

Regarding construction and demolition waste recycling on your projects, you: Poll Comments: "A sustainable lifestyle can not be maintained with materials moving only one direction—manufacture, install, discard. Recycling must become a replacement for discarding."

Escalation continues to drive our business in a variety of ways. The uncertainty leaves construction managers, estimators, and quantity surveyors reading tea leaves, throwing grass into the wind, and polishing crystal balls. Many are adept at forecasting commodity...

Which best expresses your opinion about hospital access security: Poll Comments : "There are other means beyond access control that can provide a stronger security posture for the campus. I do believe that certain areas in a hospital should be "off stage" and secured...

As gas prices rise, so does interest in alternative modes of transportation. Reports indicate record numbers of commuters are abandoning their cars for transit. And, not surprisingly, a number of commuters are switching their four wheels for two and taking to their...

Don’t throw away that construction and demolition waste. Along with the changing worldview that there is no “away” in “throwaway,” routing waste to the landfill is also expensive. Treating waste as an asset, the Institution Recycling Network (IRN) helps projects...

I have had the unusual career path of designing hospitals both before and after a six-year stint leading an entertainment design studio. During those six years, I led the design of an aquarium, theme parks, museum exhibits and movie theaters. My prior healthcare...

Last week's HCD poll question generated more responses than usual, as well as a couple comments. My own feeling is that patient-centered healthcare delivery could and should be included in all of these design models.Which design model should predominate for hospitals?...

Dear Editor: I read with great interest the recent article excerpted from Jain Malkin's book, “The Built Environment as a Risk Factor for Infection” (HEALTHCARE DESIGN, July 2008, pg. 38). Understanding and awareness, of all the factors that can contribute to reducing...