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This session will demystify key challenges, synergies, and opportunities for bringing light and nature, not only into patient rooms, but also into public spaces, waiting areas, D&T spaces, courtyards, and staff areas. Presenters will share an integrated, analysis-based approach to achieving daylight in most regularly occupied spaces. Doing so successfully... ...read more...

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With extreme weather events becoming the norm, healthcare systems must incorporate resilience in facilities in a proactive way. Building resilience is the capacity to sustain required operations in the face of disturbance and recover quickly after a disaster. Resilient design strategies can include resilient envelopes, redundant power, elevated critical equipment,... ...read more...

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Kaiser Permanente will be investing a large portion of their capital budget over the next several years into new hospital building footprint. This provided an opportunity for Kaiser Permanente to embark on refreshing their hospital template to align with the latest thinking in deep healthcare expertise and care transformation. This... ...read more...

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Do you think that net zero and carbon neutrality is out of reach? Think again! Using Boston Medical Center’s new behavioral healthcare facility as a case study, this session will describe the process for achieving net zero in a healthcare setting using geothermal heat pump systems, right sizing equipment, creating... ...read more...

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A hallmark of Lean-inspired healthcare design is utilization of mock-ups of clinical space to optimize architectural design pre-construction. This iterative process can incorporate high- or low-fidelity materials to evaluate the design in 3-D. Based on feedback, adjustments are made to architectural drawings during design rather than after construction. This process... ...read more...

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In life-saving, split-second decision-making, situation awareness (SA) plays a critical role in healthcare, aviation, nuclear power, defense, and many other sectors. While SA, and consequently our decision-making process, can be improved through training, knowledge, and memory, it can also be enhanced by spatial awareness. More specifically, how does spatial awareness... ...read more...

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In partnership with Mission:318, BSA LifeStructures held an internal master planning competition to create innovative planning solutions for Yendi Municipal Hospital in Ghana. The four interdisciplinary teams were challenged with adapting modern healthcare design to this location with special consideration for cultural context, local materials, and access to power and... ...read more...

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Where hospitality once meant being greeted by a receptionist, the expectation of personal accommodations has since evolved to prioritize customization and convenience. An expression of larger trends that speak to our on-demand, “at-your-fingertips” culture, self-rooming empowers patients with the agency to check-in themselves. Rather than wait behind a patient that... ...read more...

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The intersecting worlds of science, design, and technology offer new insights on how designers, engineers, and architects can create state-of-the-art spaces to advance care that directly responds to the unique needs of patients, their loved ones, and staff. Join these presenters as they explore experience design in a new light.... ...read more...

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The pandemic has spotlighted ways to make clinical drug trials easier on patients and better for science. Corgan is currently working with two entrepreneurial physicians who saw a business opportunity in real estate—transforming a previous trampoline park into a facility dedicated to Phase 1 clinical research trials. After a full... ...read more...

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