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Inside UCI Health – Irvine’s All-electric Acute Care Hospital
Owner UCI Health, University of California, Irvine combined all-electric systems, biophilic design, and AI-driven surgical planning to open one of the most sustainable acute care hospitals in the country.
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ASID: Providing positive distractions during the patient wait experience
A typical patient arrives at a medical facility welcomed by a room filled with rows of chairs and a few small stacks of magazines, only to wait for a lengthy…
News June 13Acoustical design in healthcare: An issue that needs to be heard
Noise in healthcare is an important concern. Achieving high-performance acoustical design in healthcare facilities is a challenge that often requires decisions balancing competing interests such as visibility versus enclosure, surface…
Trends June 10Community Clinics: Reinvesting cost-savings into design
In my last post, I discussed how healthcare legislation and the emphasis on containing costs are offering new opportunities for designers. The golden era of healthcare design is not so…
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