Health Care Lavatory
Designed to meet health care facility plumbing standards, the new aesthetically pleasing lavatory system from Willoughby is specifically developed to accommodate patients. The WBL 2320 series features ligature-resistant spouts and drains, as well as sanitary, non-porous solid surface basins to fight off stains, impacts and burns, according to the company. With a full stainless steel drain enclosure, the basins are available in nine solid and granite colors. The product’s dual-push button option gives patients access to both hand washing and drinking water.
Sheila Cahnman, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, recently joins AECOM as vice president of its health care market sector. Based at the firm’s Chicago and Minneapolis offices, Cahnman will be responsible for development, strategy and growth of the company’s design practice nationally and internationally. With more than 30 years of health care project experience, she has worked with the University of Chicago Hospitals, Advocate Health Care and the Ohio State University Medical Center.
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — An official groundbreaking for The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Victory Lakes Specialty Care Center expansion project in League City was held on Feb. 26, the day after construction began. The $90 million design-build project will add 142,000 square feet to the existing outpatient center on the Victory Lakes campus, as well as include a related utilities facility.
CHICAGO — Last month, the 10-story 1.2 million-square-foot Center for Care and Discovery at the University of Chicago Medicine opened for patient use.
WORCESTER, Mass. — On Dec. 12, 2012 at 12:12 p.m., Boston-headquartered Suffolk Construction reached substantial completion of the $400 million Albert Sherman Center, a 516,000-square-foot biomedical research and education facility located on the University of Massachusetts Medical School campus in Worcester.