Healthcare Facilities
5 infection control principles used in high-containment facilities.
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HDR, Jacobs, and Turner head BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest science and technology (S+...
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HDR, Jacobs, and Turner top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest healthcare facilities secto...
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The project will be New Jersey’s first comprehensive cancer center.
BD+C editors speak with experts from ALICE Technologies, Build Group, Hastings Architecture, Nv...
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The SPIRE Smart Building Program will help building owners and operators make better investment...
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The New York Presbyterian David H. Koch Center wins a Silver Award in BD+C’s 2020 Building Team...
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Therapy Gardens at the SHirley Ryan AbilityLab by HDR | Gensler in association with Clive Wilkinson Architects, a 2020 recipient. Photo: Dave Burk
Awards program highlights trends in healthcare facility designs.
The new Health Science Education Center is designed and built to promote student-faculty interaction and training. Image: Peter Seiger
The Health Sciences Education Center includes two floors for simulation and immersive training....
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The project focuses on natural light, greenery, and views of the outside.
Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall, designed by Ayers Saint Gross, is home to Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society and commands a picturesque site on the Chester River. The river is a living laboratory that provides students with an immersive experience in support of the building’s programs in environmental science and sustainability. Photo courtesy Ayers Saint Gross
The 2020 Giants 400 Report features more than 130 rankings across 25 building sectors and speci...
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A 12,560-sf addition to Meritus Health Center in Maryland went from concept to completion in four months. Design-to-permit alone took less than six weeks. Image: (c) John Cole
Lean practices, and early engagement with the county’s permitting department, moved this projec...
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Advocate Aurora's newest Ambulatory Health Center cut a month off of its construction thanks to integrated project delivery that included subs, which is still a rarity in nonresidential building. Images: John Magnoski
Prefabrication played a major role in quickening construction.
The Department of Veterans Affairs' new care center, in Omaha, Neb., offers eight primary clinics. Images: Courtesy of Leo A Daly
Clinic programming enhances patient privacy.
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B+H Architects is designing the project.
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The hospital is part of UCSF’s academic medical center.
At UC San Diego Medical Center, CallisonRTKL designed a teaching facility that offers medical simulation training. It includes several design elements that combat infection control, such rounded corners, stepped ceilings, and encased light fixtures for easier cleaning, as well as solid surfaces with chemically bonded seams to remove gaps and cracks. Photo: Brian Henniker
Caught off guard by COVID-19, healthcare systems take stock of the capacity and preparedness....
The newly opened West County Behavioral Center will handle patient overflow from the West County Health Center next door. Images: HED
This project went the extra mile to comply with the state’s design and construction regulations...
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The 1-million-sm Basaksehir Cam and Sakura Hospital in Istanbul is designed to withstand a seismic event that might happen only every 2,500 years. Images: Ronesons Holding
Cloud computing allowed complicated design to be completed in less than a year.
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The CICU is part of a larger redesign project for the entire hospital.
The American College of Healthcare Architects surveyed 129 of its members on the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the design of hospitals and other medical facilities.
The American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) has released the key findings of a survey...
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The project is located in Paramus, N.J.
Canada-based PCL Construction, which has focused lately on expanding its prefabrication capacity, has introduced two models for mobile COVID-19 testing centers that can be transported from factories by trailer and positioned on site by forklifts. Rendering: PCL Construction
The prefabricated boxes offer walk-up and drive-thru options.
ACF units modified from existing modular containers. Photo: PODS.
CallisonRTKL and PODS collaborate on repurposed containers for ACFs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. R. Mark Toy is briefed by Tarlton construction executives on the site of the alternate care facility. From left: Senior Project Manager Cameron Denison, who managed the night team; Vice President Joe Scarfino, who led the effort and managed the day team; and EVP John Doerr.
Missouri’s first Alternate Care Facility ready for coronavirus patients
Typical COVID-19 patient room layout in an alternate care facility. Photo: Henderson Engineers
COVID-19: Converting existing unused or underused hospitals, hotels, convention centers, and ot...
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Isolation pods being installed at Miami Beach convention center, which is being converted to a field hospital by 250 workers under the direction of contractor Robins & Morton.
COVID-19 alert: Robins & Morton to convert Miami Beach Convention Center into a 450-bed fie...
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The first 500 patient rooms at McCormick Place Convention Center. The 10X10-foot "rooms" have a cot, folding chair, lamp, and blanket, and a bowl containing a toothbrush, surgical masks, and earplugs.
Walsh Construction, one of the largest contractors in the city of Chicago and in the United Sta...
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