Building controls monitor the “pulse” of energy used in buildings and provide flexibility for individual control that the building occupant desires. For example, lighting and heating/cooling energy use can be minimized when integrated with security to turn off lights...
The new Lacks Cancer Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the result of a shared vision of Saint Mary's Health Care and a generous donor community. Guiding the project's path as a steward of health were three main goals: Convey a unique image identity and connect to...
The Floyd & Delores Jones Cancer Institute at Virginia Mason Medical Center The image of patients sitting on a conveyor belt and being whisked through a hospital like widgets on an industrial assembly line might seem comical to some people, but it is serious...
When 13-year-old Nichole Paone recently had to undergo surgery to remove a tumor the size of a baseball at the back of her brain, she was operated on in Children's Hospital Boston's new MROR, the world's first Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) operating...
How do you translate a 120-year-old hospital and its proud community tradition into terms that are meaningful in the 21st century? That was a question that the Rockford Memorial Development Foundation and its executive director Helen Brooks faced, having received a...
Pediatric art Nancy K. Armstrong creates pediatric interiors and children's art to complement interiors. The themes behind her paintings encompass cultural and architectural subjects, making both collections a diverse learning medium for children. Circle 50 on Reader...
When examining options for a facility master plan, budget and schedule often become the two primary constraints keeping a hospital from choosing its “most preferred” plan. Reskinning older, existing buildings to incorporate them into the new architectural scheme can...
Who would imagine that a duck and the letter H might have something in common? But these two images have extremely close ties. Both mark a destination with meaningful distinction; both serve as a beacon for potential users. The duck is a gift shop selling Long Island...
Children's Medical Center of Dallas is one of the nation's largest healthcare facilities serving young people from birth to age 18, and it is known for providing a caring environment that supports the physical and psychological needs of its client groups: patients,...
Traditional rules of thumb in healthcare planning have changed. Skyrocketing land values, rising operational costs, new government regulations and standards of care, and intense competition have altered the healthcare landscape over the past decade. Once-accepted...
Health facility planners and managers have seen more flood news lately than they have for decades. Some have felt the impact directly-and not just those from New Orleans, Hurricane Alley, or the Ohio River Valley. Every year, the National Flood Insurance Program...
The research laboratory often serves as a window to the future of medicine. Despite the cutting-edge capabilities of the modern laboratory, engineers who design these facilities sometimes use methodologies that are scientifically unsound. While most engineering design...
