Misconceptions about the cost, timing, and perception of sustainable design can keep healthcare systems from achieving goals on reducing their carbon footprint and improving the facility resiliency.
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Are Patient Room Sinks Necessary?
The requirement for handwashing stations in patient rooms as well as their location and design are topics the healthcare design industry should reconsider.
5 Reasons For Designers To Specialize In Healthcare Interior Design
Between the soaring popularity of HGTV shows and meaningful new studies on the impact interior design can have on healing and happiness, it’s not surprising that designers (and even non-designers; more on that later) are finding interior design opportunities in...
4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch
Healthcare’s competitive landscape provides opportunities within capital planning, design, and construction to engage in new strategies that maximize planning, technology, flexibility, and prefabrication.
City of Hope Converts Office Building To Cancer Clinic
The Lennar Foundation Cancer Center in Irvine, Calif., features design elements inspired by the surrounding landscape and hospitality environments to create a calming space for patients and staff.
How Research Can Inform Healthcare Real Estate Development
In-depth research can be used to inform strategic new approaches to healthcare real estate development. A case study from Aspect Health and Gensler sheds light on the process.
Is Regenerative Design The Future In Healthcare?
Regenerative design is moving healthcare projects beyond sustainability to an approach that addresses a building’s impact on socio-ecological systems.
Hospitals’ Extraordinary Potential For Improved Energy Efficiency
Healthcare systems should consider innovations in equipment and geothermal systems to increase building efficiency and save money.
Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute Serves Vision Impaired With Empathic Design
The 78,500-square-foot outpatient facility at UC Davis Medical Center was driven by empathic design principles to ease the journey of its vision-impaired patient population.
Using Artwork To Alleviate Patient Anxiety
Healthcare organizations offer lessons in transforming floors, walls, and other facility spaces into positive distractions that support healing.
More Research Will Strengthen Healthcare Design Industry
More healthcare design research is needed to continue to raise the bar on building performance.
Building A Cancer Center In An Urban Environment
Allegheny General Hospital tackles a complex site in downtown Pittsburgh to build a new cancer center on its flagship campus.
