Healthcare Facilities
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...
The first episode, now available on demand, features experts from Robins & Morton, Gensler,...
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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.
Photos: © Lauren K Davis
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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All photos courtesy Holt Construction
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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TLC Engineering Consultants' guidance on ventilation in COVID-19 patient rooms.
Ventilation engineering guidance for COVID-19 patient rooms
The 170,000-sf replacement hospital, under construction in Uvalde, Texas, deployed a collaborative design process advocated by the project's GC Hoar Construction. Rendering and photos courtesy of Hoar Construction
Hoar Construction’s formula emphasizes preconstruction planning and input from healthcare worke...
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We believe that part of the longer-term answer lies not just with traditional health providers,...
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All photos courtesy FortaPRO
Onsite construction was completed in two weeks.
As soon as visitors step out of their car in the parking garage, the mobile wayfinding platform provides turn-by-turn, Blue Dot navigation through the entire campus. Photos: Gozio Health
Gozio Health uses a robot to roam hospital campuses to capture data and create detailed maps of...
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All renderings courtesy Cuningham Group
Cuningham Group Architecture and EYP designed the project.
A look at milieu based on desired level of activation and socialization.
It’s time to take a closer look at the collection of therapeutic settings known as milieu.
Courtesy Perkins Eastman
The building creates a model for 21st century cancer care.
Hospital employees, though excited about technological advancements, are expected to navigate a n...
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For patients and healthcare staff, these developments will be most evident in new tools, such as...
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One of PDA’s recent projects was the design of Vibra Healthcare’s 56,000-sf rehabilitation hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif., which features upscale hospitality in its 50 deluxe rooms. Images: HED
Puchlik Design Associates, its new addition, specializes in healthcare design.
A new Medical Innovation Building will open in Grand Rapids, Mich., in two years, adding to that city's research capabilities. Photos: Rockford Construction
Michigan State University is part of a development team for a new life sciences building.
On the campus of University Hospital in San Antonio, construction has begun on a 12-story tower that will serve women and children patients. Rendering: ZGF and Marmon Mok
This $500 million project represents the next phase in the hospital system’s capital improvement...
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All renderings courtesy UNC Health Care
Skanska USA will build the project in three phases.
Heart failure clinics, like the one that just opened at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan, are helping to reduce fatalities causes by heart disease. Images: HED
An example of this building trend recently opened at Beaumont Hospital near Ann Arbor, Mich.
A rendering of an expanded Rosedale Center in Minnesota's Twin Cities, which when completed will include a medical office building. Image: Rosedale Center
Healthcare developers and providers like the locations, traffic, and parking these spaces offer....
