by Anne DiNardo | Apr 15, 2013 | News
It’s estimated that more than one billion people will take part in this week’s annual Earth Day celebration. Launched in 1970 and celebrated every year on April 22, a lot has changed in Earth Day’s four-plus decades of influence. Individually,...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 15, 2013 | News
"Plastics." That's the word Mr. McGuire tells young Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 film "The Graduate," insisting that there's a "great future in it … think about it."Today, “nanotechnology” is the new plastics....
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 12, 2013 | News
Michael David White, senior lighting designer, Schuler Shook, presented a compelling argument for a new approach to lighting design within senior living environments during his session at the 2013 Environments for Aging Conference. Backed by research that was...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 11, 2013 | News
Designing for the continuum of care—both architecturally and clinically—is all the rage right now, but some designers and care organizations feel that hospice and palliative care have been tucked in the back corner of eldercare for too long. The 2013...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 11, 2013 | News
In every keynote, every session, at the 2013 Environments for Aging Conference in New Orleans this week, the statistics and charts and graphs were like a hammer to the head. This silver tsunami thing is a big deal, and the size of the older population—and the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 11, 2013 | News
It’s not an easy sell on paper: A 100-percent financially self-sustaining, mixed-use campus anchored by a community hospital, in an area on the southwest side of Chicago that struggles with high crime and unemployment.But if anyone can sell it, it’s Guy A....
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 10, 2013 | News
Jean Hansen is on a mission to green healthcare interiors. “Years ago, I started realizing that the products we specify have chemicals of concern in them that could affect our health,” she says. “I began asking manufacturers what goes into their...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 9, 2013 | News
I’m in the process of putting together a trend report on children’s hospital design, which we’ll be featuring in our May/June issue of Healthcare Design. And while my sources have filled me in on topics ranging from how to design for multiple age...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 9, 2013 | News
The goal of Lean design is to eliminate waste. This isn’t a one-time effort, but a never-ending journey of continuous improvement. To determine how the built environment can foster this type of performance and process improvement, you need to identify what waste...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 9, 2013 | News
Oftentimes interior designers, architects, and facility owners don’t fully understand the expertise and creativity that the field of environmental graphic design (EGD), an intersection of communication design and the built environment, can bring to a project....
