10. “Green” building is a passing fad. Locating buildings to take advantage of solar orientation, prevailing breezes, and natural features, while using locally available natural materials, are “green-building principles” that have been practiced for centuries....
Safety Flooring Altro Designer 25 heavy-duty safety flooring has been updated to coordinate with and complement many other Altro High Performance flooring products. It is now available in 12 contemporary colors. Altro's Easyclean Technology does not compromise...
In the early 1930s, the construction industry considered one death per $1 million spent on construction to be the norm. Worker fatalities, though undesirable, were an accepted corollary to doing business. Some of the workers who built our nation's most treasured...
As promised in our September 2002 annual showcase issue, HEALTHCARE DESIGN has become a quarterly publication this year. You hold in your hands the initial result of a decision to publish three regular, magazine-style issues in addition to the annual September...
This well-known Chinese proverbactually it's a Chinese curse, but as an optimist I prefer to think of it as a proverboften pops into my mind as I contemplate all that is going on in the world and in our own industry of healthcare design. We truly are living in...
Office work is a relatively large component of what takes place in healthcare settings. In addition to administrative offices, many office-type settings for input and retrieval of electronic and paper-based medical and financial information, telephone communication,...
Feeling as though we had inadvertently wandered onto a TV stage set for ER, a contingent of 15 architects from Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA), primarily members of the firm's Healthcare Practice Group, recently explored the real-life setting of an...
Although they are rarely the focus of attention, nurses have a tremendously important role as healers in the life of any healthcare institution. Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City was fortunate to find a benefactor who understood this. Beatrice Renfield...
Located in the heart of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center and adjacent to the hospital's main entrance, the new Cancer Center features its own entrance and a new enclosed walkway that connects to the hospital and two adjacent medical office buildings. The client's...
In designing anything as permanent as a new structure, planners want to be as sure as possible that the building will serve its users well for years and even decades to come. The feat of prognostication, always difficult, is even more so for healthcare, where...
Unfortunately, the above scenarios exemplify the paradox that exists on many nursing units in a variety of healthcare organizations across the country. The challenge is to design a nursing unit that not only positively influences the guest's experience, but also meets...
In August 2002, the Naval Hospital Bremerton, near Seattle, opened its new three-story outpatient clinical wing and, simultaneously, moved the hospital both forward and backward in time. The new wing moved it forward by helping Bremerton evolve from just another...
