by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Whether it’s diagnosing a facility’s systems problem from home, making a quick adjustment to a patient room’s thermostat right from one’s desk, or taking advantage of advanced trending and reporting functions, remote Web-based monitoring is...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Pebble Partner opening the doors of a new facility presents an eagerly anticipated opportunity to see evidence-based design strategies at work and to measure the results of their implementation. The opening of Dublin Methodist Hospital last month after many years of...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
With the launch of the new HEALTHCARE DESIGN Web site, we have begun experimenting with new Web site “modules,” such as this blog section here or videos (like these). Yesterday I ran across a construction company that received an award for its water conservation...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
For anyone involved in the design and construction industry, it’s unlikely a day goes by without at least hearing a mention of Building Information Modeling (BIM). This project delivery tool has promised increased team collaboration, improved schedules, cost...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
Textiles are woven into the fabric of the healthcare built environment; draperies, privacy curtains, blankets, bedding, furniture and medical furnishings, floor and wall coverings are examples of the many fabric products used in hospitals. The demands of the contract...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
GGHC Releases Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency The Green Guide for Health Care’s report, “A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency Improvements for Hospitals,” is a peer-reviewed methodology for hospitals greater than 70,000 square feet to achieve a 14%...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2008 | News
When University Medical Center started to develop the 17-acre site that now houses the Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic, the only thought was that they wanted to emulate the aesthetics from the main campus on the new campus. As the project evolved, a vision...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 1, 2008 | Trends
Recently I finished reading a book called Architecture of the Absurd (Quantuck Lane Press, New York) by a hard-bitten former university president, John Silber of Boston University, who oversaw the building of nearly 14 million square feet of varied structures for his...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 1, 2008 | News
The Nightingale Awards are the industry’s first and most prestigious healthcare-product design competition. Sponsored by Contract magazine in association with The Center for Health Design and Vendome Group, LLC (publishers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN) and judged by a...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 1, 2008 | News
Moving parallel with the welcoming of new residents to one of the fastest-growing counties in Indiana, a new patient tower extends a cheery, light-filled, warmly sensitive greeting to the area’s newborns. Community Hospital North, until a few years ago a modest,...
