by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 31, 2013 | News
Integrating art into a facility must be considered at a high level, from reflecting the culture of the people who use the space to being able to function effectively within its operations.But a few roadblocks may be encountered before a project even gets off the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 31, 2013 | News
At first glance, an art installation may appear to be the simple effort of hanging a painting on the wall. But to achieve a truly effective art program, designers require much more than a hammer and nail to integrate their chosen pieces into a building.Case in point...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 30, 2013 | News
Healthcare designers and administrators alike value research. Neither wants to end up with a building designed on a whim, without a base of knowledge that supports the decisions that shaped it—from why the windows are glazed in a certain way to how operational...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 29, 2013 | News
Whether it’s taking care of a required physical exam, finding out if an injury requires an X-ray, diagnosing an ear infection, or getting a needed prescription for antibiotics, retail centers are quickly becoming the go-to place for minor medical...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 29, 2013 | News
With the way the population is aging, everyone who designs and builds healthcare spaces is involved in designing for the senior market. Facilities that specifically cater to the elderly will have to expand and grow; other facilities, from doctors’ offices to...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 28, 2013 | News
The Kaleida Health Gates Vascular Institute/SUNY at Buffalo Clinical Translational Research Center was developed by the private Kaleida Health system and the public SUNY system and designed by Cannon Design. It’s a 10-story, 475,000-square-foot building using a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2013 | News
In the United States, most healthcare design projects are driven by very concrete metrics: schedule, cost, code, and pro-forma, to name a few. Often the program is in place before the first user group meeting, with very little wiggle room for study, interviews, or...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 28, 2013 | News
It doesn’t pay to incorporate a broken process into a new building, so say administrators at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Children’s of Alabama. When designing their new facilities, they set out to do things differently. These two...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 25, 2013 | News
The battle over infection prevention has been waged on most surfaces, materials, and equipment in the patient room. The quest to curb hospital-borne infections has made patient rooms easier to clean and created processes that remove materials that may be home to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 24, 2013 | News
Following the devastating earthquake in 2010, Haiti now faces another epidemic: cholera, a disease that’s infected more than 530,000 Haitian citizens. Spread through contaminated food or water, cholera kills more than 100,000 people each year despite the fact...
