by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 6, 2017 | News
Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects recently announced the opening of its Vancouver practice. Ana Maria Llanos, senior associate with the firm, leads the Vancouver-based team. She has worked at Diamond Schmitt for 20 years and has expertise in institutional and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 6, 2017 | News
MedSpring Urgent Care announced the opening of its newest location in Fort Worth, Texas. This is the company’s thirteenth urgent care facility in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area. Additional centers are under construction in McKinney, Allen and Denton....
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 6, 2017 | News
Contractors at Airedale Hospital, located in West Yorkshire, England, recently broke ground on a new £6 million acute assessment unit. The 48-bed unit will have eight bays and eight single room suites with facilities. It will also have a new ambulatory lounge, for...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 3, 2017 | Projects
As modern care delivery increasingly focuses on the whole person, the healthcare built environment is changing to reflect that. Many hospital systems today are establishing outpatient care locations—clinics—in underserved suburban communities. The move decentralizes...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 3, 2017 | Trends
It can be difficult for someone who isn’t an architect to understand a space plan just by looking at 2-D drawings. Designers frequently use 3-D modeling and rendering, often in real-time rather than in finished plans and drawings, to show the design intent of a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 3, 2017 | News
The Menninger Clinic in Houston recently announced a new $16 million outpatient and education center to help address the community’s unmet needs for mental health care and education. Construction of the 25,000-square-foot building will begin this fall with the opening...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 3, 2017 | News
Keck School of Medicine of USC (University of Southern California) is planning for the construction of a new hospital on its Health Sciences Campus in Los Angeles. The new facility will integrate medical and surgical advances with evolving technologies from other...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 2, 2017 | News
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have awarded a fixed-price contract to Plenary Health CAMH to design, build, finance and maintain the CAMH Phase 1C redevelopment project in Toronto. The contract is valued at...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 2, 2017 | News
Mowery, a Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based construction firm, announced that the American Hospital Association Certification Center has designated project manager Tim Johnson as a Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC). The CHC is a national credential that distinguishes an...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 2, 2017 | News
Wabash, Ind.-based Parkview Wabash Hospital is nearing completion with the final steel beam now placed. The two-story, 80,000-square-foot facility will also include a 31,000-square-foot medical office building that will be home to Parkview Physicians Group. The...
