January 2020
The Building Blocks of a Successful Project
Marcus Terry, AIA, Project Manager As healthcare design professionals, what are the opportunities to bring value to a project? Knowledge of clinical operations? The ability to design to a budget? The skillset to provide well-detailed and complete construction documents? Certainly, [...]
December 2019
The Loophole in NFPA 285
Architects are paying more attention to the detailing and materials in the building skin. Your architect needs to understand when NFPA 285 is applicable and exactly what NFPA 285 requires. The most important part of that understanding is the loophole that exists in NFPA 285.
November 2019
How Do You “Look”?
There’s an architect, interior designer, engineer, construction administrator, and a social worker sitting at a bar. After a while the bartender announces to the group, “Hey, by the way, we just finished renovating the space so I’m asking folks what they think!”
October 2019
Taking Care of Mom by Taking Care of Her Family
By Erika Hill, Interior Designer Any mother who has taken her family for a vacation in a condo at the beach or a cabin in the woods knows that she is not on vacation. She has merely changed her view for [...]
September 2019
The Designer’s Hidden Challenge
If we’re lucky enough during our professional careers, a client comes along that understands the value of good design and is an enthusiastic collaborator.
Forget Millennials. The Alphas Are Coming.
In addition to creating aesthetically pleasing and playful environments, designers should look to inspire hope, creativity, and interaction for pediatric patients. To accomplish this, it will be necessary as these forthcoming generations grow to combine medical care with technology for patient engagement.
August 2019
Clash Prevention: Improving BIM Coordination
Leveraging new and current technology to improve our design methodology is at the core of what we strive for. One tool we use improves design team coordination and thereby our deliverable documents and building information modeling.
Local Vernacular, and Why It’s Important
With the advent of franchises and a healthy dose of poor guidance, our towns started to slump toward a “no matter where we are, we are in the same place” aesthetic.
July 2019
A Healthcare Journey from the Other Side
By Ron Maddox, Senior Plumbing Designer My job is designing the plumbing and medical gas systems for healthcare facilities, but my story here is not one of technical expertise in healthcare. Instead I want to talk about my personal experience [...]
Spaces for Healing after Brain Injury
By Sam Pruitt, Healthcare Designer I believe in the resiliency of the human mind and spirit. More importantly, I believe in the power of the brain to do the impossible. In the moments, days, weeks, and years following a brain [...]