by HCD Guest Author | Aug 22, 2012 | News
Project category: New construction (completed May 2011)Chief administrator: Jean Elrick, M.D., Senior Vice President, Administration, (617) 726-0430Firms: NBBJ, (212) 924-9000; Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, (617) 218-4800Design team: Interior Design, Lighting Design,...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Aug 22, 2012 | News
I love talking to design students. In covering the design field over the past several years, I’ve had the chance to mingle with a number of smart, wildly creative types who couldn’t wait to get their hands on commercial environments and make them fabulous....
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 21, 2012 | News
With the help of the design community, healthcare institutions today are planning for facilities with greater longevity, efficiency, flexibility, and a better patient and caregiver experience, all while working within greater budgetary and spatial constraints. A...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 21, 2012 | Trends
Sustainability programming isn’t the only healthcare initiative that gets its foot in the door with the promise of cost savings. It turns out that wellness and sustainability programming have a lot in common. Yes, the route of entry is the same, but so are some of the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 20, 2012 | Trends
This is an exciting time to be a researcher at The Center for Health Design (CHD). As research becomes increasingly incorporated into the practice of healthcare design, CHD is playing an active role to provide the bridge between research and practice. What is...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 20, 2012 | News
Deep within the Mojave Desert, a two-lane road leads to an isolated U.S. Army base, where our nation’s soldiers prepare for war amidst the dry and sparse expanse that surrounds them. It’s on this site where a design team has been charged to offset the...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 15, 2012 | News
Are the traditional methods of sizing domestic hot water production equipment in hospitals obsolete? Are engineers installing more hot water production equipment than needed? Are we wasting energy by not “right sizing” the production equipment?These are...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 15, 2012 | News
“We are called to be the architects of our future, not its victims.” —Buckminster Fuller This quote starts off a new book by...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 13, 2012 | News
When Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) officials committed to building their new facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as a “green” facility, they were largely forging new territory.At the time, no more than a handful of hospitals around the country had...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 10, 2012 | News
In my previous blog, “Is There No ‘I’ in BIM?”, I shared some tips from Michael Whaley, AIA, LEED AP, president/director, TURIS Systems LLC, regarding how building information modeling can be put to use by facility managers.Whaley—joined...
