Healthcare
Elevating the Patient Experience through Playfulness and Discovery
Editor’s note: The following article was provided to HiProfile by Tecton Architects in collaboration with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Tecton is a member of the Construction Institute. Farmington, CT – One of the fastest growing trends in healthcare design is the emergence of clinical environments that don’t feel clinical. Healthcare organizations are increasingly drawing on […]
Coreslab Uses Precast Concrete Panels on New Facility
Valhalla, NY – Westchester Medical Center Health Network in Valhalla used architectural precast concrete cladding on its new $230 million, 280,000sf ambulatory care pavilion, located adjacent to its existing tower. It is said to be the largest health-care construction project in Westchester County in decades. The eight-story structure includes 185,000sf of ambulatory care space […]
Acuity-Adaptable Rooms: What They Are and Why Hospitals Need Them
by Tom Ryan On the horizon is a new way and better way for hospitals to design their care: acuity-adaptable patient rooms. What are acuity-adaptable patient rooms? They are cutting edge hospital rooms that allow the care to come to where the patient is – via portable telemetry and diagnostics – rather than the patient needing […]
BOND Celebrates the Grand Opening of Clinical Center
Needham, MA – BOND, a Boston building, civil, utility and energy construction firm, celebrated the grand opening of the new Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham (BID-Needham) outpatient clinical center on May 3, 2019. John Fogarty, BID-Needham president; Nancy Hoffman, CFO and support services officer; and Kevin Tabb, MD, CEO and president of Beth Israel Lahey Health; […]
Emerson Hospital Utilizes Rotating Art Hanging System
Maynard, MA – STAS picture hanging systems, located in Millbury, recently completed a project with Emerson Hospital in Maynard. As part of its newly opened facility, Emerson Hospital wanted to create a more inviting lobby by featuring local artists on a seasonally rotating basis. The challenge with this comes when it’s time to change out […]
School of Dental Medicine Topped Off
Boston – To celebrate the renovation and expansion of the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, BU and Shawmut Design and Construction hosted a topping off and beam-signing ceremony on March 29. Senior executives, faculty, and students were present to celebrate the milestone. The $112 million project includes a 41,900sf expansion and 53,100sf renovation […]
Five Things to Know about Nantucket Cottage Hospital
by Brian McKenna Nantucket, MA – Nantucket Cottage Hospital recently opened the doors to its new 106,000sf facility on Nantucket Island. “Our new hospital is the incredible result of a small island community coming together to do something big,” said Margot Hartmann, MD, Ph.D., president and CEO, Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “This dynamic new facility will […]
Merck to Expand R&D Facility
Billerica, MA – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, which operates its biopharmaceutical business as EMD Serono in the U.S. and Canada, announced a $70 million investment to expand its state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) facility in Billerica. The new building will span 145,000sf, offering new laboratory and collaborative working space to accommodate approximately 400 new and […]
SLAM Designs School of Pharmacy
Johnson City, NY – The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) recently completed the programming, planning, and design for the new $60 million, 105,000sf School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY). In addition to full architectural services, SLAM provided interior design, structural engineering, and landscape architecture services. The facility […]
Marr Sets Bridge at Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston – Boston Children’s Hospital is building a pedestrian bridge at the intersection of Longwood Avenue and Blackfan Street, which will provide direct pedestrian access between the Patient and Family Parking Garage and a new lobby above the main hospital’s entrance, making hospital trips safer and more convenient for patients and visitors. Working for steel fabricator […]
