Kyle Pfeiffer, Salto

Advancing Healthcare: Medical Office Buildings at the Forefront of Access and Safety

This article explores the pivotal shift from traditional hospital settings to Medical Office Buildings (MOBs), focusing on how these facilities enhance patient access. Discover the key drivers of this transformation, including technological advancements, demographic trends, and a growing emphasis on integrated, patient-centered care. Learn how MOBs are not only adapting to modern healthcare demands but are also leveraging modern access control and safety innovations.

Emerging considerations in inclusive design

Design elements that consider a diverse population of users make lives better. When it comes to wayfinding, some factors will remain consistent—including accessibility and legibility.

Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

Code-compliant locking hardware is essential to safer school design. The right lock can support access control for improved school safety.

HMC Architects

Tomorrow's classrooms: Designing schools for the digital age

In a world where technology’s rapid pace has reshaped how we live, work, and communicate, it should be no surprise that it’s also changing the PreK-12 education landscape.

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| Nov 1, 2021

Balancing beauty, dignity, and safety in behavioral health facilities

Furniture and finishing strategies for behavioral health facilities.

LEEDing on the Path to Sustainable Construction

Achieving sustainability begins with innovative designs that embed responsibility into every part of the building and construction lifecycle. See how it works.

| Oct 22, 2021

A plan to solve California's housing crisis

A framework for workforce housing, environmental repair and economic balance.

| Oct 19, 2021

Achieving resiliency through integrated design

Planning for and responding to the effects of adverse shocks and stresses is typically what architects and engineers have always thought of as good standard design practices.

Identifying Color Trends: Then and Now

Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings reflects on the life of color trends throughout history and how trend forecasting plays a part then, now and in the coming years.

| Oct 6, 2021

How to overcome the 3 most common obstacles in long-term community development

Use these tips to overcome market changes, community opposition, and multidisciplinary needs in long-term community development.

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

| Oct 6, 2021

My reaction to the UN IPCC Climate Change 2021 report: Ugh!

The recent report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is not a happy read.

Hierarchy of construction costs with unit prices being the most granular and models being the most general

Using Cost Item Assemblies to Improve Estimating Accuracy

Cost item assemblies can make estimators' jobs easier by providing trusted components that are already vetted for scope completeness and price accuracy.

| Sep 30, 2021

How design can support student wellness on higher ed campuses

Over the last year, the pandemic has spotlighted the importance of promoting student well-being through a holistic system of environments and resources.

VIATechnik | Sep 28, 2021

Getting diversity, equity, and inclusion going in AEC firms

As a professional services organization built on attracting the best and brightest talent, VIATechnik relies on finding new ways to do just that. Here are some tips that we’ve learned through our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) journey.

HDR | Sep 28, 2021

Designing for health sciences education: Specialty instruction and human anatomy labs

It is a careful balance within any educational facility to provide both multidisciplinary, multiuse spaces and special-use spaces that serve particular functions.