Minimizing chemical hazards in healthcare
Many strong chemicals are used in healthcare settings, for a variety of reasons: to treat patients (medications and…
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The Yawkey Center Rooftop: Capping Off Boston's Green Building
Excerpts adapted from the session “Healthy Hospitals: Boston Green Building Initiatives,” presented April 20, 2006, at CleanMed 2006…
News May 31Building with formed concrete: How good is ‘good’?
The problems became obvious when the forms came off the 70-year-old public structure undergoing renovation. It was a…
News April 30Key considerations in patient room design, part 2: The same-handed room
Images courtesy of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK) In last month’s article I summarized the basic models…
News April 30Putting it together
For more than 20 years, the Minneapolis Heart Institute had grown as most hospitals do: by accretion, adding…
News April 30Controlling the controls
Building controls monitor the “pulse” of energy used in buildings and provide flexibility for individual control that the…
News April 30The Lacks Cancer Center: A steward of health
The new Lacks Cancer Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the result of a shared vision of Saint…
News April 30Ambulatory cancer care for today and tomorrow
One doesn’t necessarily have to be a fan of NBC’s Today Show to remember the tragic death from…
News April 30The OR theater of the future
When 13-year-old Nichole Paone recently had to undergo surgery to remove a tumor the size of a baseball…
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