Hospital Design Trends

December 29, 2014 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

New mobile unit takes the worry out of equipment sterilization during healthcare construction [BD+C's 2014 Great Solutions Report]

Infection control, a constant worry for hospital administrators and clinical staffs, is heightene...

December 29, 2014 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

HealthSpot station merges personalized healthcare with videoconferencing [BD+C's 2014 Great Solutions Report]

The HealthSpot station is an 8x5-foot, ADA-compliant mobile kiosk that lets patients access a net...

November 21, 2014 | Lora Schwartz, Principal Consultant, CBRE Healthcare

Lean Led Design: How Building Teams can cut costs, reduce waste in healthcare construction projects

Healthcare organizations are under extreme pressure to reduce costs, writes CBRE Healthcare's Lor...

In a video announcement released by Haskell, three business leaders at Haskell a

November 14, 2014 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

Haskell acquires FreemanWhite, strengthens healthcare design-build business

The combination expands Haskell’s geographic presence by adding FreemanWhite’s offices in Chicago...

Perkins Eastman and Turner Construction led the effort to convert the once-endan

October 30, 2014 | Perkins Eastman/LBL

Perkins Eastman and Lee, Burkhart, Liu to merge practices

The merger will significantly build upon the established practices—particularly healthcare—of bot...

With 57 units in Phase 1 of the project, Orchards at Orenco in Hillsboro, Ore.,

October 22, 2014 | Amy McIntosh, Associate Editor

Passive House concept gains momentum in apartment design

Passive House, an ultra-efficient building standard that originated in Germany, has been used for...

October 21, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Hartford Hospital plans $150 million expansion for Bone and Joint Institute

The bright-white structures will feature a curvilinear form, mimicking bones and ligament.

The $100 million MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, designed by architecture f

October 14, 2014 | Adele Houghton, RA, LEED AP BD+C, O+M, ND

Debunking the 5 myths of health data and sustainable design

The path to more extensive use of health data in green building is blocked by certain myths that...

October 08, 2014 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor

Massive ‘healthcare village’ in Nevada touted as world’s largest healthcare project

The $1.2 billion Union Village project is expected to create 12,000 permanent jobs when completed...

September 21, 2014 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief

Healthcare conversion projects: 5 hard-earned lessons from our experts

Repurposing existing retail and office space is becoming an increasingly popular strategy for hos...

September 15, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Ranked: Top Veterans Administration sector AEC firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

CannonDesign, Clark Group, and URS top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest Veterans Administr...

The Mount Sinai Hess Center for Science and Medicine, in New York, a winner in t

September 04, 2014 | Robert Cassidy, Editorial Director

Hospital CEOs, architects sound off on state of healthcare design

Healthcare construction will continue to feel the effects of radical changes in the delivery of c...

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August 05, 2014 | Peter Lufkin and Luca Romani, CBRE Whitestone

Risk scanning: A new tool for managing healthcare facilities

Using well-known risk analytics applied to pre-existing facility data, risk scanning can provide...

Catawba Valley Medical Center Pavilion, Hickory, N.C. Photo: courtesy Freeman Wh

July 23, 2014 | Amy McIntosh, Associate Editor

Holistic care model, regulatory changes make outpatient facilities a high priority [2014 Giants 300 Report]

With the Affordable Care Act still in its infancy, Building Teams are seeing reverberations in th...

The University of Colorado Hospital recently completed major projects on the Ans

July 23, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Top Healthcare Sector Construction Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Turner, McCarthy, and Skanska USA top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest...

Single-bed inpatient rooms in the Hospitaller Pavilion at Palos Community Hospit

July 23, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Top Healthcare Sector Engineering Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

AECOM, Jacobs, and URS Corp. top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest healt...

Duke Realty, Eskenazi Health, and Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County for

July 23, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Top Healthcare Sector Architecture Firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

HDR, Stantec, and HKS top Building Design+Construction's 2014 ranking of the largest healthcare a...

The new Lawrence + Memorial Hospital Cancer Center will allow patients to receiv

July 21, 2014 | Julie S. Higginbotham, Senior Editor

IPD contract saves time and money for cancer center [2014 Building Team Awards]

Partners share the risk and reward of extreme collaboration on this LEED Silver project, which re...

July 15, 2014 | BD+C Staff

Michael Graves talks with Washington Post about new design eye from life in a wheelchair

Celebrated American architect Michael Graves sits with the Washington Post to talk about how bein...

The Building Team for the California Health Care Facility, Stockton, only had ab

July 14, 2014 | Amy McIntosh, Associate Editor

Punishing deadline can’t derail this prison health facility [2014 Building Team Awards]

A massive scope, tough schedule, and technical complexity fail to daunt the Building Team for a h...

The Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton replaces an outmoded hospital on the base.

July 08, 2014 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief

Fast-track naval hospital sparks sea change in project delivery [2014 Building Team Awards]

Through advanced coordination methods and an experimental contract method, the Building Team for...

The Alfond Center for Health, Augusta, Maine, uses massing to create a Village

July 07, 2014 | Robert Cassidy, Editorial Director

Team unity pays off for a new hospital in Maine [2014 Building Team Awards]

Extensive use of local contractors, vendors, and laborers brings a Maine hospital project in mont...

An example of emerging "live, work, play" strategy is the development of residen

June 05, 2014 | Eric Fisher and Patrick Duke

Emerging trends in healthcare development: neighborhood care, mixed-use models on the rise

In urban and even suburban markets, real estate is about the "live, work, play," with close proxi...

The contractor implemented advanced prefabrication measures on the 360-bed Exemp

May 14, 2014 | Mortenson Construction

Prefab payback: Mortenson quantifies cost and schedule savings from prefabrication techniques

Value-based cost-benefit analysis of prefab approaches on the firm's 360-bed Exempla Saint Joseph...

May 07, 2014 | Las Vegas SC2 Challenge

Design competition: $900,000 on the line in Las Vegas revitalization challenge

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants your economic development ideas for remaking four areas wit...

May 03, 2014 | Curtis Skolnick and Charles Black, CBRE Healthcare

Health system capital planning for the future: The benefits of master plan portfolio analysis and ambulatory market modeling

Money continues to be scarce, yet U.S. health systems need to invest and re-invest in their physi...

April 02, 2014 | Mike Denney, Managing Director, CBRE Healthcare

The new model of healthcare facility management

A growing number of healthcare organizations are moving to an integrated real estate model in an...

December 10, 2013 | BD+C Staff

16 great solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

From a crowd-funded smart shovel to a why-didn’t-someone-do-this-sooner scheme for managing traff...

The Poly Corporation Headquarters in Beijing features a unique design component

July 09, 2013 | CTBUH and BD+C Staff

5 innovations in high-rise building design

KONE's carbon-fiber hoisting technology and the Broad Group's prefab construction process are amo...

The design and construction of the hospitals 42-foot-high, 60,000-sf mechanical

May 01, 2013 | David Barista, Editor-in-Chief

World’s tallest children’s hospital pushes BIM to the extreme

The Building Team for the 23-story Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago implements an integrated...

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