by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
Nature-inspired seating pattern Victor Innovatex has launched its new open line seating pattern, Rivière. Rivière is 100% Eco Intelligent® Polyester and is certified Cradle to Cradle Gold by MBDC. The pattern consists of whimsical, free-flowing multicolored dots in a...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
Virtua Health is a not-for-profit, multihospital healthcare organization in southern New Jersey with more than 7,200 clinical and administrative personnel and 1,800 physicians as medical staff members. As a part of a quest for excellence, Virtua became a Pebble...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
Pfizer, with large campuses on both sides of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut housing its Global Research & Development headquarters, brings medical innovations in the form of life-extending and life-improving medicines to millions of patients around...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
I don’t know if it’s possible to be “trendy” west of the Adirondacks or east of the Sierra Nevadas, living as I do in tragically non-hip Cleveland. But it’s always fun to indulge in “trend spotting,” wherever one happens to be. And, for an editor, it...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
The Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care Building at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle may look more like an aquarium than a hospital. With life-size orcas floating above, a 20-foot octopus creeping across the wall, and portholes to...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
Imagine being a physician prepping for surgery with mere sketches as a guide. You must perform the coronary bypass without accurate data: no X-ray fluoroscopy, no echocardiogram, no heart cath. Your only map is a pencil drawing of the patient’s body from 10...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | Trends
In April, The Center for Health Design (CHD) in conjunction with Vendome Group, LLC, launched, with great success, the first annual Environments for Aging conference in Baltimore, Maryland. It was attended by the who’s who in the world of designing for the...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
There have been two major changes that affected the design of Pre-Op and Stage 2 Recovery areas. The first was the merging of these two functions into one shared suite that allows for shared staffing and a more efficient use of the space. The efficiency is largely...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
This year, the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) extends daylight saving time (DST) in the United States by four weeks. The idea behind this change is to see if it will reduce energy consumption. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will study the affect of daylight saving on...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
Virtual reality” has its virtues. Technology allows architectural designers to show our customers around a space without ever really entering it, viewing it from angles that simply aren’t visible from a rendering or interior elevation. A virtual walk-through can...
