by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
Evidence-based design is certainly not a new concept in the healthcare industry. In fact, it is increasingly applauded by architects, designers, and administrators for its impact on a number of key result areas: clinical results such as the improvement of patient...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
I remember a friend of mine once coming back from New York City and telling me about a hotel he stayed in. “You walk into the lobby and its lavish—vaulted ceiling, dramatic pendant lighting, the reception desk a broad sweep of oak, a gleaming marble floor. You...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
Achieving a national milestone wasn’t part of the plan when the Providence Newberg Medical Center (PNMC) team embarked on the design of a new $60 million hospital in Newberg, Oregon, but creating a facility that promoted the healthcare system’s mission and...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
Increasingly, hospitals are searching for new and more efficient ways to deliver healthcare to their communities without sacrificing their high quality standards. The quest for shrinking operating margins causes hospitals to focus on simultaneously increasing volume...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
It is interesting to observe that among the first projects to fully embrace the more sustainable or “green” building types, institutional—primarily educational—projects lead the way to LEED certification. But, until recently, very few of these more sustainable...
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
There’s something about moving water that soothes the spirit. The constantly changing pattern and soft murmur of water is calming and mesmerizing. It’s even therapeutic. Decades of scientific research show that the sound and visual images that falling...
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...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
It could be called “hometown cardiac care” in Plano, Texas, where a new 68-bed, 198,000-square-foot heart hospital, designed for exceptional performance and comfort, aims to meet the expectations of an affluent and educated population. Patients are grouped according...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2007 | News
The fact that hospitals undergo physical change has become a subject of interest on an international level. These changes are of great concern to healthcare organizations—and to governments—because of the rising costs of construction and the need to control those...
