Introduction Healthcare Design is pleased to bring you our 2nd annual Corporate Profiles edition. While we continue throughout the year to bring you the latest in groundbreaking facility design across the world, these profiles highlight the architects, designers, and...
Joan Saba, AIA, of NBBJ, and David Hanitchak, Director of Planning and Construction, Massachusetts General Hospital, review how the 3-D design visualization approach known as Building Information Management (BIM) guided their choices in a recent MGH project and...
An integration vision starts with an integration dream—one where all electronic devices within a healthcare facility have the capability to seamlessly communicate as needed to meet any function desired. Integration allows for application to gain efficiencies and cost...
Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. In partnership with HEALTHCARE DESIGN and The Center for Health Design, Starizon seeks to recognize those healthcare organizations that offer the best examples of melding healing design into their buildings while...
Roughly half a billion square feet of “green” buildings have been completed or are under design and construction around the United States. While that number is growing, green building still represents too small a percentage of all construction projects. Fortunately...
In many ways, a wireless local area network (WLAN) can be compared to a highway—the network can only accommodate what it was initially designed for. And therein lay the challenges in the design and support of a WLAN: They require not only consideration of current...
As I hope our readers know, this is the month (specifically November 2-6 in Dallas) of the annual HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference. In nearly 38 years as a healthcare editor, I have attended more conferences than I care to remember. Certainly there are stretches of hours...
Everybody understands Murphy's Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment.” But when it comes to catastrophes, Murphy was an optimist—during a catastrophe, Murphy's Law could be amended to say “Everything that can go wrong, will...
Encouraging a strong leadership role for senior executive groups is a critical component to forming a successful project team. Healthcare projects are complex and require a diverse array of professionals to come together in the quest to create the most successful...
The Center for Health Design (CHD) has built its foundation firmly on the platform that healthcare construction projects utilizing credible evidence in the design decision-making process yield safer healing environments and that these environments best support the...
Patient recliner Versatile in its design and function, the Fusion Patient Recliner from Cabot Wrenn has a strong frame and is available in both the fashionable upholstered or wooden arms. Features include a powder-coated steel frame and platform, wall-hugger recline...
Photography: Jim Roof Creative Located within the nation's largest reclaimed greenfield, Piedmont Physicians Group is at the heart of Atlanta's Atlantic Station restoration project. Once a polluted steel-mill site, the district is now a thriving downtown community,...
