BELLEVUE, Wash. — Eating Recovery Center (ERC) has signed a lease in the Overlake Medical Pavilion in Bellevue. It is now the seventh tenant in the nine-story LEED Silver-certified medical office building. The new lease brings the 191,050-square-foot building to 45 percent leased, according to Nashville, Tenn.-based developer Healthcare Realty.
The California Prison Hunger Strike was officially suspended on Sept. 5 — about 60 days after 30,000 inmates in California prisons started refusing state-issued meals. While the strike demands have yet to be met, the strike was suspended after two California state legislators announced that they would hold public hearings in the coming months on the state’s use of solitary confinement.
NEW YORK — A new report published by New York-based Perkins+Will shows that sustainable hospital design is beneficial, despite contradictory beliefs that LEED certification for hospitals is cost prohibitive. The study, titled LEED Certified Hospitals: Perspectives on Capital Cost Premiums and Operational Benefits, is the first to focus solely on the capital cost premium for hospitals to achieve LEED certification.
ATLANTA — The renovation and expansion project at Correll Cardiac Center, located in Atlanta, debuted on Sept. 4. The main goal of the project is to provide sufficient space to help aid the growing number of heart disease patients in Georgia, as heart disease is the leading cause of death in the state.
MISSION HILLS, Calif. — Originally planned to achieve LEED Silver certification, Facey Medical Group’s Mission Hills Clinic was recently awarded LEED Gold by the USGBC.
BEAVERCREEK, Ohio — In July, the Indu & Raj Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek completed its fourth-floor expansion, which included 32 new acute care rooms that increased the center’s capacity by about 33 percent. The project is part of a $430,000 expansion that includes the completion of the fourth and fifth floor, which were originally shelled in the project’s first phase.
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).
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, 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.
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.
