The winners for the Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition are Aditazz and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch/ Perkins+Will (M+NLB). According to the Kaiser Permanente (KP) website, the winners were chosen for designs that: Create spaces to inspire human-to-human connection and collaboration Include civic spaces that blur the boundaries between the community and the traditional hospital setting Bring nature … Continue reading Winners: Kaiser Permanente Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition
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Healthcare Architect Certification by the American College of Healthcare Architects
In response to the 12th day of the April Platform Challenge, here's my post on getting Healthcare Architect Certification. I guess my big question is, how do you manage your professional and personal goals with the time we are given?
Healthcare Architect Certification by the American College of Healthcare Architects
What is a specialty certification worth? I have my LEED AP, I will be a licensed architect, and I'm considering getting a specification designation such as a CSP (Certified Specification Practitioner). I'm all for studying to take the exams to get my credentials, the problem is maintaining my credentials with Continuing Education (CE). As I … Continue reading Healthcare Architect Certification by the American College of Healthcare Architects
Top 9 LinkedIn Tips for Professionals (Like Architects)
I first started my LinkedIn account in 2008, when I was afraid that my job would expire in the economic downturn. I've seen LinkedIn grow and change over the last four years, in some good and some bad ways. Sunday's April Platform Challenge involved setting up a LinkedIn profile. Reading the comments, I realized that … Continue reading Top 9 LinkedIn Tips for Professionals (Like Architects)
Update – Kaiser Permanente Competition: Small Hospital, Big Idea – Finalists
Winners announced! Friday March 23rd. Check out their designs here! Tell me what you think of them!
Comment on USGBC 2012
If you are a member of the USGBC you can vote and comment on LEED 2012 revisions until March 20th.If you are like me, not from the US, you can still review and comment on the drafts, and you can even use the #LEED2012 Twitter Hashtag to have your say there. There will be a … Continue reading Comment on USGBC 2012
CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation Course – Modules 2 & 3a
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am discussing what I'm learning in my CSC Principles of Construction Documentation course. In our second week of classes, we've learned about the responsibilities and roles of the people involved, and about bid documents. I have to say the CSC course information is pretty useful for general … Continue reading CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation Course – Modules 2 & 3a
Call for Papers: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu
The Therapeutic Landscapes Network has linked to a Call for Papers: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu for the peer review journal Facilities. From the post: Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu
CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation Course – First Week
As I mentioned in a previous post, I would discuss what I'm learning in my CSC Principles of Construction Documentation course. In our first week of classes, our modules covered both ethics , and the history and new developments in specification writing. Because I'm taking the course, I'm not sure how much I should ethically … Continue reading CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation Course – First Week
CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation
I spent 8.5 years in school* learning how to be an architect; learning how to design, and mostly learning what a long road ahead of me I had in the field. I am at the end of 3.5 years logging hours to get licensed; I have completed my NCARB ARE exams (7, including one that … Continue reading CSC: Principles of Construction Documentation
Humber River Regional Hospital: North America's First Digital Hospital
Canadian Architect announced today that HDR Inc., as part of Plenary Healthcare Partnerships (PHP) team began ground breaking in December for North America's first fully digital hospital, the Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH), where will automate all of the operational processes. As the first fully digital hospital in North America, the hospital is designed to … Continue reading Humber River Regional Hospital: North America's First Digital Hospital
(Update) Lecture: Hospital of the Future
Update: Here is the presentation I received via email after the lecture, courtesy of Ted Kesik, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto. It's a PDF, so it loses some of the text between the transitions, but that's better than no presentation at all. Click on the link below to see the … Continue reading (Update) Lecture: Hospital of the Future
Update – Kaiser Permanente Competition: Small Hospital, Big Idea – Finalists
Update: As I wait for the winner to be announced, I've been perusing the shortlist proposals for the competition. I've found some of the modular proposals interesting, like a bit of a return to the hospitals of the 1970s, like the McMaster University Medical Centre. Most of them focused on the ability of technology to … Continue reading Update – Kaiser Permanente Competition: Small Hospital, Big Idea – Finalists
Lecture: Hospital of the Future
The University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design has a lecture series every year and I attended Wednesday night's lecture on the Hospital of the Future, by Dr. Ernesto Morales, a researcher from L'Insitut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal (IUGM). Dr. Morales was recently invited to participate in a project with the Research Centre … Continue reading Lecture: Hospital of the Future
Sustainable & Affordable Housing: 2 Case Studies
I subscribe to a few free online magazines sponsored by professional organizations. Catching up on some reading the other night, I came across 2 affordable housing projects focused on sustainability. Construction Canada's October online issue (page 6) features Chapelview, a 15 story, 200 unit affordable housing project in Brampton, Ontario, the first such building to reach … Continue reading Sustainable & Affordable Housing: 2 Case Studies
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