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EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Medical Clinic (Confidential Owner), Kansas City, Missouri
January 2014 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The goal of this project was to answer the often-asked question “what flooring performs best in which healthcare environments”, and determining specifically what the preferred flooring would be for healthcare exam and treatment rooms. The material would be selected from a review of performance measures. In addition, the goal was to create a new prototype concept for the exam rooms with a face-to-face consultation desk that supported the integration of the EMR.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

St. Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, Colorado
January 2014 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The goal of this project was to understand the amount of walking and energy expended by nurses in their daily work, in addition to nurses’ work environment preferences, and job satisfaction, may aid architects and engineers in designing hospitals that best meet the needs of these workers.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Central Washington Hospital, Wenatchee, Washington
January 2014 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The goal of this project was to increase caregiver efficiency through the implementation of evidence-based design strategies in the design of a new patient bed tower at Central Washington Hospital.
Webinar

Safety Risk Assessment 2.0
January 2018 ∘ Webinar

This webinar introduces the new, easier to use, online interface for The Center’s Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit, a proactive and systematic approach to designing and renovating healthcare facilities for safety. Originally developed through research and consensus to support the requirements of the FGI Guidelines, The Center's research team will walk you through the why, what, and how of each part of the online SRA toolkit illustrating features with vignettes gathered from the testing process.  
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Webinar

How to Commission Art in Your Healthcare Environment

December 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar focuses on methods, tools, and inspiration for commissioning art in healthcare environments. The presenter discusses how to determine your art requirements, finding the right artist, managing RFPs for artwork, and using digital tools to streamline the commission workflow process.
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Webinar

How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Robot Doctor
October 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar highlights the macro factors shaping these realities, along with an in-depth exploration of the various impacts of and opportunities for design. Remember doctor’s visits when you were growing up? The wooden tongue depressor. The well-worn stethoscope. As design harnesses digital, materials, and networking technologies, a very new health experience is just over the horizon. Proactive, lifestyle design, tracking real-time health data, non-invasive tools and custom “just for you” treatments based on your actual genome, are here. 
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Webinar

Analysis and Simulation: Improving Team-Based Primary Care Design
October 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will summarize the newest research evidence about how design can improve the delivery of team-based ambulatory care, discusses new metrics being delivered jointly between the Military Health System and Georgia Tech, and discusses how to design for a system with a wide spectrum of purpose-designed healthcare buildings and retrofits of older medical facilities.
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Webinar

Life Cycle Thinking: Energy and Human Health
September 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar provides an overview of global green building trends, including benchmarks such as LEED v3 + v4 and BREEAM. The presenter delves into the building product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and product transparency via a variety of market based tools, all with a focus on energy and the impact on human health. Participants also hear about global green building trends in three different countries and various case studies.
EBD Journal Club

Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans
October 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club

Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans, Journal of Interior Design, DOI: 10.1111/joid.12095
Tool

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: A Universal Approach & Benefit Analysis
February 2018 ∘ Tool

Design interventions to improve well-being for patients with behavioral and mental health (BMH) conditions will often have impacts on other populations, as well (e.g., staff, visitors, non-BMH patients who use the same facility). This tool will help you consider those broader impacts and incorporate them into an evidence-based process for a universal design approach.