AIA Names Healthcare Design Awards Winners
WASHINGTON — Eight health care design projects are being honored as recipients of the 2014 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program, the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health announced last week.
These projects express the best of health care building design and health care design-oriented research, according to the AIA. The designs were chosen based on their strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital.
WEST POINT, Ga. — Orchard View, a $28 million skilled nursing facility in Columbus, Ga., opened this month. The facility will provide a neighborhood-style home to 200 residents.
WEST JORDAN, Utah — In fall 2015, a new comprehensive cancer center on the Jordan Valley Medical Center campus will be able to provide both inpatient and outpatient cancer services to Salt Lake Valley residents.
Integrated project delivery (IPD) is gaining traction in the health care AEC industry. There has been a lot written about the benefits to the method, including budget control and schedule achievements. 
FRESNO, Calif. — After the passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 109 in 2011, California county jails have seen a spike in inmate populations. The influx has strained facility resources, especially county-provided medical services. 
SOUTH AMBOY, N.J.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — A $138.5 million renovation and expansion will help to improve service time at Iowa’s busiest emergency center, which treats nearly 75,000 patients a year. 
PHILADELPHIA — Three Mercy Health System hospitals are using energy-efficient methods that have helped the city of Philadelphia make the EPA’s list of the top 10 U.S.
CINCINNATI — Construction is set to begin on a massive 112,000-square-foot ambulatory facility in Kenwood, a community north of Cincinnati.
WATFORD CITY, N.D. — After an oil boom put the quiet community of Watford City on the map, a $59 million hospital is set to break ground this week.