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November 16, 2006

A Special Section of
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Stories


"New law encourages hospitals to give patients a lift"
By ERIN K. COUCH
Clark/Kjos Architects


"Hospital gardens help patients heal"
By MARK EPSTEIN
ESA Adolfson


"Hotels offer lessons for Oregon hospital"
By ADAM KERNER
Anshen+Allen


"State to adopt national health care design standards"
By RICHARD MOELLER
CDi Engineers


"Quick! Turn an office building into a medical center"
By JANET FAULKNER
Callison


"Complex projects call for virtual construction"
By GRAHAM CONDIT
Sellen Construction


"Build a better building with 3-D modeling"
By RICHARD DALLAM and TODD BUCHANAN
NBBJ


"Boomers shaping future of health care design"
By BARBARA BRECKENFELD
Blue Horse Marketing


What's inside...

Photo by John Edwards
ON THE COVER: A view up the spiral staircase at the University of Washington Medical Center Surgery Pavilion, completed in 2003. The $92 million project was designed by NBBJ in partnership with Keating/Khang. Hoffman Construction Co. was the general contractor/construction manager.

This year's special publication on the design and construction of health care projects starts with a look at a new state law regarding patient safety during transfers.

Next, we look at changes to the hospital environment, including hospital gardens and hotel-like amenities.

We discuss how, starting in 2007, the state intends to adopt AIA/FGI guidelines as standards in health care design, construction, management and maintenance.

Then, we travel over to Issaquah, where Swedish Medical Center has built the state's first freestanding emergency department.

New technologies are also in the spotlight, such as building information modeling, or BIM, which allows project teams to build in a virtual environment before construction begins.

One example of the use of BIM in health care design and construction is the Swedish Orthopedic Institute, where early error detection helped save time on the project.

Finally, we take a look at how the baby boom generation is reshaping what it means to grow older, and what that means to the future of health care design.





Health Care Design & Construction team

Section editor: Jon Silver

Section design: Jeffrey Miller

Web design: Lisa Lannigan

Advertising: Matt Brown



List of Advertisers:

Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs (ABKJ) (www.abkj.com)

BCE Engineers, Inc. (www.bceeng.com)

BN Builders, Inc. (www.bnbuilders.com)

CDi Engineers (www.cdiengineers.com)

Coughlin Porter Lundeen (www.cplinc.com)

GLY Construction (www.gly.com)

Goudy Construction Company (www.goudy.com)

KJM Associates (www.kjmassoc.com)

Notkin Mechanical Engineers (www.notkin.com)

PCS Structural Solutions (www.pcs-structural.com)

Shannon & Wilson, Inc. (www.shannonwilson.com)

Trammell Crow Company (www.trammellcrow.com)

University Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (www.umci.com)






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