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EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Children's Pavilion at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA
March 2020 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
To provide an “oasis” for patients and their families with an emphasis on wellness, safety and security while being warm, inviting, and comforting. To build the operating delivery model, partnering with other community providers, focusing on a “full service” outpatient continuum of care across sites (physician office, emergency room, hospital ambulatory, hospital inpatient, home care, community ambulatory care) and across levels of service (primary care management, specialty consultation and treatment and chronic care management).
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Animal Humane Society, Golden Valley, MN
March 2020 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
To create a research study similar to those used in healthcare settings to evaluate the impact of the new canine housing habitat model. To understand the impact of the designed environment on staff, volunteers and the dogs who are housed there.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The Emerson Resort & SPA, Mount Tremper, New York
March 2020 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
The goal was to embellish nature’s restorative qualities with the benefits of this resort’s spa, both in the services provided and in the designed environment in which these services are delivered.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

HCA Healthcare Veterinary Center, Nashville Zoo, Nashville, TN
March 2020 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
The mission of the Zoo’s veterinary center is: “we are a window for the world to witness compassionate veterinary care and collaborative research to conserve all species." In order to achieve this, the goal was to meld the natural world with the manmade world.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky Healthcare, Lexington, KY
March 2020 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
The project reimagines how a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can function in the future to achieve better outcomes.
Tool

Dementia-Supportive Environments: Considerations

March 2020 ∘ Tool ∘
Understanding the personal abilities and unique challenges faced by aging individuals, especially those living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, better equips design teams to create supportive care and living spaces. Changes that can be credited to dementia are noticeably different from the changes typical of normal aging, but both can occur at the same time. 
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Webinar

The Wisdom of Nature – Biophilic Design for Health & Wellness
March 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar explores the science biophilia that embraces nature as the teacher to solve complex issues in challenging building spaces. It will explain the mathematics, physics and biology that support the biophilic behavior and it will further discuss circadian and color kinetic lighting, human sustainability, healthy buildings, human factors, natures geometry of fractals, as design tool for the built environment.
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Webinar

Incorporating Technology that Improves Patient Safety and Save Lives
March 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar will evaluate design integration of varied technologies being utilized in many facilities that design teams can implement to dramatically improve patient outcomes.
Design Strategies

Aging and Dementia Design Strategies

March 2020 ∘ Design Strategies ∘
Understanding the personal abilities and unique challenges faced by aging individuals, especially those living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, better equips design teams to create supportive living spaces. Devising goals that target single symptoms and objectives is not always practical, however, because changes associated with aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias tend to appear in “clusters” rather than in isolation. The design-based evidence associated with designing supportive memory care settings results in 12 programmatic design strategies.
Webinar

The Building as a Therapeutic Tool: Creating a Children’s Treatment Center

February 2020 ∘ Webinar ∘
​This webinar highlights a case study of the ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development and explores how the design caused the building itself to become a tool for therapy, learning, and teaching.