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The Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is housed in a 386,000 square foot glass building featuring integrated inpatient and outpatient services. Unicel Architectural, which has a strong track record working with behavioral health centers, was asked to deliver an integrated louvers product. The pavilion now now boasts more than 300 exterior Vision Control units with vertical louvers and glass stops in glossy white and custom gray, each perfectly suited to the architect’s specifications, along with 120 interior Vision Control units and low-profile door trims with horizontal louvers to provide much-needed privacy and sound dampening.

This virtual, interactive, collaborative and problem-solving workshop is designed to help project stakeholders (designers, facility executives, administrators, and care providers) explore the key tenets of prefabrication and modular construction, how the benefits of “better, cheaper, faster” are balanced with quality and safety, and how design/build processes and budgets can be reframed from traditional healthcare design/build projects.  

Altro’s award-winning, adhesive-free floors offer you enhanced comfort under foot and greater impact sound reduction. These solutions provide complete flexibility and feature our most advanced Altro Easyclean technology, while retaining the benefits of reduced installation time and 100% recyclability.

This webinar highlights the case study of Baptist Health Care of Pensacola and the design of their new 57-acre campus. Presenters will discuss how this integrated design team approached prefabrication of the building envelope, MEP systems, and interior components. They’ll detail the benefits and risks of prefabrication, how the process reduced the carbon footprint, and how owners can truly benefit from the added coordination. Finally, the team will discuss how they proactively communicated to eliminate pitfalls and costly design changes that come from conventional construction methods through prefabrication.  

For the past hundred years, prefabrication has helped to enhance cost-effectiveness and expedite construction timelines, but it isn’t enough. This webinar will provide an update on the current market status for healthcare prefabrication projects and projections for the next decade. Attendees will see proven case study findings from multiple completed productized healthcare projects, and the impact prefabrication can have on cost and sustainability.  

This webinar will address how we as programmers, designers, and planners can influence inclusive healthcare environment that serves everyone. If health disparities are to be addressed holistically and universally, then healthcare design will be an important component of that shift. For clients that are serving underserved regions, whether with the construction of new facilities or the renovation of existing buildings on campus, we owe it to all shareholders to understand the issues of inclusive architecture, and to help them set, reach and exceed goals for meeting the needs of patients and families that traditionally do not have their healthcare needs met.

Caton Hill Medical Center brings state-of-the-art, single-facility comprehensive care to Northern Virginia. This new facility highlights Kaiser Permanente’s uniquely integrated health system by offering a full range of primary care, advanced specialty care, and convenient services under one roof.

Swiftstop Anti-Barricade Doorset with Full-Door Ligature Alarm is the safest doorset in Behavioral Health. In an emergency, this world-leading doorset alerts staff and provides access to a patient’s room in two seconds.

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