by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 26, 2013 | News
Wayfinding is an inescapable component of healthcare design. And if you think it’s all about signage, there are at least two designers who’d likely tell you you’re dead wrong.Chris Bowles, senior graphic designer, and Marisabel Marratt, associate and...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 26, 2013 | News
Anyone who’s been through the construction process has heard the words “moisture mitigation.” While it’s not new, concern over the issue has grown over the last 10 years.One reason is condensed construction timelines, which mean most projects...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 25, 2013 | News
As hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and specialty clinics continue to transition to more hospitality-like settings, the flooring specified for those facilities is going in a new direction, too. Issues about cost, infection control, and maintenance are still...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 25, 2013 | Trends
As hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and specialty clinics continue to transition to more hospitality-like settings, the flooring specified for those facilities is going in a new direction, too. Issues about cost, infection control, and maintenance are still...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 24, 2013 | News
While no healthcare construction project can really be classified as “easy,” renovations of existing, operational facilities tend to come with the most challenges, from patient safety to infection control to maintaining desired census. Over recent years,...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 24, 2013 | News
As a landmark for a new community, the Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel campus is the latest addition in the provider’s Tampa Bay division. Partnering with HuntonBrady Architects (Orlando), the staff and design team created design directives for the $81 million...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 24, 2013 | News
In the healthcare reform era, systems will have to be more efficient, doing more with less, while at the same time caring for more patients. As a result, we’ll see several trends.Fewer big projects, more incremental growth. In the last two decades, we’ve...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 22, 2013 | News
The pediatric care environment is one that demands a thoughtful design approach to support both patients and family members. And while doing so has shown to improve outcomes, the necessity for it goes beyond the clinical realm.In fact, offering everything from family...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 22, 2013 | News
I’ve always been enamored with how a great design solution emerges differently than a good one. The best-of-the-best solutions are often game changers, and the evidence-based design movement has fueled a few in the last decade. Unfortunately, we’re in need...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 18, 2013 | News
The stories are starting to trickle in, as they always do after these tragedies, of the acts of bravery, kindness, selflessness, and heroism that occurred immediately in the aftermath of this week’s Boston Marathon bombings. We need these stories to get us...
