Leo A Daly Designs Abu Dhabi Hospital
ABU DHABI, UAE — Omaha, Neb.-based Leo A Daly completed the design for the new 300-bed, 1.25 million-square-foot Zayed Military Hospital campus that will serve all branches of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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AIA Sponsors First Trade Mission to Brazil
WASHINGTON — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is sponsoring its first Architecture Service Trade Mission to Brazil. The trade mission will take place from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10.
Austin Children’s Shelter Receives PV System Donation
AUSTIN, Texas — In April, Austin-based Circular Energy installed a 10,000-watt solar photovoltaic (PV) system consisting of 40 solar panels and a Fronius IG Plus V inverter to the roof of the Austin Children’s Shelter’s gymnasium. The gymnasium is the largest and has the highest energy usage of the campus’ eight buildings.
The PV system was donated by Portage, Ind.-headquartered Fronius USA; San Jose, Calif.-headquartered Sun Wize Technologies Inc.; Circular Energy and Austin-based Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody.
UCSF Medical Center Project Earns Energy Efficiency Award
SAN FRANCISCO — A chilled-water system at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently earned a $757,000 energy efficiency award from PG&E. Designed by San Francisco-based Arup, the system also received the 2013 Higher Education Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Award in the HVAC Retrofit category. Constructed between August 2011 and December 2012, the $7.7 million project helped UCSF upgrade its water chilling system to a highly efficient system from its former inefficient absorption chillers.
BYOD Trend Influences Future of Health Care Technology
More and more nurses today are bringing their own smart phones and tablets to work and using them in their day-to-day work routine, according to a recent survey by Fierce Mobile Healthcare.
The study found that 61 percent of hospitals and health systems respondents said that half their employees use personal mobile devices for work. Fifty percent said the devices are used for just email and calendar applications, while 36 percent said the devices are used to retrieve patient data.
Cook County Jail Expands Medical Facilities
CHICAGO — Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago unveiled its new Residential Treatment Unit (RTU) in June. The RTU is part of the Cook County Jail’s 276,450-square-foot addition project built to accommodate a growing jail population. The five-story facility is seeking LEED Silver certification.
WHR Architects to Design RWJUH Expansion
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A major expansion at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick is underway after the announcement of Houston-based WHR Architects as the project architect.
Patient Room 2020 Concept Debuts
NEW YORK — After six years of research and design development, New York-based NXT Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to collaborative design innovation to improve the delivery of care, debuted Patient Room 2020 at the DuPont Corian Design Studio in New York.
Hand Hygiene Monitoring Systems Help with Compliance
AKRON, Ohio — Earlier this year, the CRE bacteria scare reminded hospitals of the importance of hand-washing compliance. At the same time, several companies launched hand sanitation systems that were tested at hospitals across the nation, and the results are encouraging.
Q&A: New Radiation Therapy Room Opens in Atlanta
ATLANTA — Last November, Birmingham, Ala.-headquartered Brasfield & Gorrie completed the new metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) radiation therapy room at the Aflac Cancer Center of Children’s Heathcare of Atlanta at Egleston.