As an interior designer working on large projects for senior housing facilities for the past 20 years, I have been in a constant battle with manufacturers to produce products that meld the three most important criteria specifically needed for senior housing: aesthetics, code compliance, and durability. To date, products meeting all three criteria have been virtually nonexistent. In the past five years,...

Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed October 2004) Chief administrator: David M. Tew, Vice-President and COO, (402) 398-5969 Firm: Leo A Daly, (402) 391-8111 Design team: Jeffrey S. Monzu, AIA, Project Designer/Project Architect/Interiors; Martin Janousek, AIA, Project Designer/Project Architect/Interiors; John Andrews, AIA, Project Manager; Chuck Rogge, Mechanical...

How important is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)? How important is being green and living a sustainable, environmental, eco-friendly lifestyle? How important is it to live a healthy lifestyle? The questions we want to ask ourselves are the tough questions. Do I care? Am I responsible? Can you hold me accountable? As a former designer turned healthcare furniture representative,...

When a renowned children’s hospital seeks to expand its market, it shouldn’t be surprising when it does so in spectacular fashion. The Seattle-based Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center was already well established in the Seattle/Puget Sound area but wished to expand its outreach throughout Washington State and into Idaho, Montana, and even Alaska. Having adopted,...

Silver certification, and is the latest step in the implementation of a hospital master plan that RTKL completed in 2006. Construction on the bed pavilion is slated to begin in spring 2009, with an anticipated completion in fall 2011. Currently under construction in preparation for the bed pavilion is a 360-car parking lot and an expansion of the existing imaging department. The imaging department...

High technology and design whimsy come together to provide the residents of New Jersey with a Pediatric facility where more patients are cared for than at any other hospital in New Jersey. Creating Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Pediatric Center of Excellence began with bringing all Pediatric service lines to one location, creating a “hospital within a hospital.” Now, with the fourth floor...

Issue Date: Winter 2010, Posted On: 1/1/2010 Bringing the Design-Build Advantage to Healthcare ConstructionAn inside look at some projects achieved with today’s hot delivery method by Susan Hines The current economic recession has forced everyone, from ordinary consumers to captains of finance and industry to examine their purchasing practices more closely. The design and construction...

Megan Gover, RID, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C Megan Gover, RID, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C, Interior Designer, HKS, Inc. Megan Gover is a registered interior designer with HKS, Inc. in Dallas and specializes in community hospitals and international healthcare projects….

Four senior professionals in HDR Architecture’s healthcare program have been named healthcare directors. Each will have responsibility for a specific discipline within the healthcare group, working in close coordination with HDR’s healthcare consultants and the firm’s design principals to incorporate leading evidence-based design principles in all of the firm’s project...

Winners were announced for the 2010 Healthcare Environment Awards, which are cosponsored by Contract magazine, The Center for Health Design, the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference, and Vendome Group, parent company of HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine. The program recognizes excellence in healthcare facility design in acute, ambulatory, conceptual, health and fitness, long-term, and student categories....