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Integrating Human Health into Green Building and the Dell Children’s Hospital

Integrating Human Health into Green Building and the Dell Children’s Hospital

Posted by | Jan 23, 2017 | 0 |

An Interview with Green Building Pioneer Gail Vittori. “By design, the integration of nature permeates the experience, from both inside and outside the hospital. This is accomplished through seven interior courtyards, a 3.5 acre interactive healing garden for patients, plant species that represent the diverse ecological zones from which the young patients come from and access to views of nature from almost everywhere within the hospital.” — Gail Vittori

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ProHealth Care Cancer Treatment Facility

ProHealth Care Cancer Treatment Facility

Posted by | Oct 31, 2016 | 0 |

As the design of a health care facility plays more and more into the patient’s choice of care, designers are looking for innovative ways to create healing environments. The UW Cancer Center at ProHealth Care in Wisconsin is warm and inviting, promoting comfort while easing stress. The team from Cannon Design, ranked the #5 firm in Health Care globally, selected Mosa’s world class porcelain for floors and feature walls in public and patient care areas to address their key objectives. We sat down with one of the designers to see what went into this world-class patient care design.

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Adaptive Reuse Award presented to ERDMAN for innovative urban clinic project

Adaptive Reuse Award presented to ERDMAN for innovative urban clinic project

Posted by | Sep 14, 2016 | 0 |

The Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo recently presented ERDMAN a Symposium Distinction Award in the Adaptive Reuse category. Each year the Symposium recognizes a project demonstrating exceptional creativity in successfully renovating and repurposing an existing space. This year’s award recognizes ERDMAN’s design and delivery of the Rush River North Health Center in downtown Chicago, a new branch location of Rush University Medical Center (UMC).

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia addition features Valspar’s Fluropon coatings

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia addition features Valspar’s Fluropon coatings

Posted by | Jul 14, 2016 | 0 |

In July 2015, the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care opened as the newest addition to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) campus, which serves more than 200,000 patients each year. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and FKP Architects, the 12-story, 700,000-square-foot ambulatory care center is the focus of the new South Campus. Its curving curtainwall systems feature Valspar’s high-performance Fluropon® coating systems in nine bold colors selected by the architects to give the exterior a vibrant, welcoming appearance.

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