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Inova Health Center – Oakville, Alexandria, Virginia: 2026 Design Showcase Honorable Mention

The 4-story, 100,000-square-foot ambulatory care center introduces a new architectural and operational model that’s designed for scalability across Inova Health System.

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Right-Sizing Systems in Clinical Laboratories

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…

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Caring for the Caregiver

The movement in healthcare design toward patient-centered care and healing environments is often reflected in healthcare facility features meant to mitigate the stressful nature of serious illness. Preliminary research has…

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Rebirth

As trees start to show their new growth, bulbs begin to peek their way up from the thawing winter ground, and daylight hours grow longer, signaling the end of the…

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