by HCD Guest Author | Mar 27, 2012 | News
Earlier today, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that the 12,000th commercial project has earned LEED certification. Since its launch in 2000, the LEED green building program has transformed our nation's built environments, standing as the most...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 26, 2012 | News
The basic design and programming of waiting rooms are evolving. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are realizing that minimizing wait time and providing comforting features are integral to successful healthcare delivery.Waiting rooms serve many functions. They are...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 26, 2012 | News
Answering the need in a tri-county region, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has begun the first phase of construction of a new medical office building (MOB) and outpatient center in Davie County. Designed by HKS Inc., the 60,000-square-foot MOB is scheduled to be...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 25, 2012 | News
The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) this month is releasing a new handbook to serve as a guide for healthcare facility commissioning.For anyone not immediately familiar with commissioning, it’s essentially a process through which an assessment...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 25, 2012 | News
If you ever doubted that universities are the perfect incubator for innovative ideas and forward-thinking solutions to global issues, you need only look to Arizona State University to see what a group of energetic, entrepreneurial students have created.I’ll...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 25, 2012 | News
With a handful of exceptions that are still in various phases of construction (including the Parkland project, and a few others), it seems that the days of the mega-million dollar hospital project have for the most part become a relic of a bygone age. The...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 23, 2012 | News
We here in the offices of Healthcare Building Ideas (HBI) and sister publication HEALTHCARE DESIGN (HCD) always value the opportunities we have to travel to conferences and trade shows, as well as to visit firms and tour facilities, to get a little bit closer to those...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 22, 2012 | News
In case you haven't heard, the Cleveland Clinic is branching out. Under the visionary leadership of President and CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the world-renowned health system has bucked recent trends by building, expanding, and renovating facilities at a rate that is...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 21, 2012 | News
The operation and maintenance of facilities is something our readers are dealing with every day. However, doing so in an efficient way that improves performance is another matter.ASHRAE just released a new guideline offering facility managers and building operations...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2012 | News
When HEALTHCARE DESIGN recently took a short drive to Marymount Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic facility, I had a small nagging feeling as I stood in the parking lot. Having driven past the hospital many times, I just couldn’t seem to remember exactly...
