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August 26, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I presented an overview about radiation treatment room design and shielding to the State of Texas hospital licensing division along with Jay Poston, the radiation safety officer from the Texas Children's Hospital (TCH). We just opened the new Meta Iodo Benzyl Guanidine (MIBG)…
August 26, 2020
Yvonne Elias
Five years ago, on my first day on the job with Dewberry, I attended a planning meeting at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) hospital in Zion, Illinois. Known as the Midwestern Regional Medical Center (MRMC), this facility near Chicago is one of five CTCA hospitals across the U.S. Our…
August 26, 2020
Chris Cirrotti
Recently, I had the pleasure of moderating two panels about healthcare real estate trends in New Jersey and beyond. The first was for the New York chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, where I was accompanied by two experts in healthcare facilities planning, panelists Americo…
August 26, 2020
I've been working in the engineering field for more than 20 years, but it's largely my more recent experience in the healthcare industry that has been the most challenging. I began focusing on healthcare facilities engineering eight years ago, but even though this focus constitutes only a small…
August 26, 2020
Robert Wolff and Nathan Sauber
Some of our most qualified healthcare subject matter experts, those who have spent upwards of 35 years in this specific industry, are calling healthcare an emerging marketplace. The last time this market went through such a period of change was after the introduction of Social Security in the…
August 26, 2020
Laurel McGinley
I was playing “ambulance” with my four-year-old son the other day when he said, “Uh-oh, Mommy, the bridge to the hospital is broken.” He fired up the ambulance’s jet engines and was able to fly the patient to the hospital for treatment. This got me thinking about the hospitals near my house. If one…
August 26, 2020
Mark Heinrich
We recently completed one of the largest capacity projects I’ve had the opportunity to work on—the Central Utility Plant (CUP) at the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. Designing the CUP, along with all of the site/civil and utility infrastructure on the 75-acre site, was a milestone project for…
August 26, 2020
Bob Wolff
Recently published, the purpose of the 2012 edition of the National Fire Protection Association Health Care Facilities Code (NFPA 99) is to establish criteria for the safety of patients and healthcare personnel against fire, explosion, and electrical and related hazards within healthcare…
August 26, 2020
Donald Burroughs
Commissioning is often an additional service incorporated on new construction projects with complex or substantial mechanical and electrical systems. This service might be provided by the design engineer or an independent consultant. Services may include design review, second party review of…
August 26, 2020
Jim Draheim
I have a drafting table in my home. Inside, there are drawings, mylar, pencils, pens, leads, and other assorted manual drawing tools stored away. All of these tools were vital to my career at one time, and to the career of any architect working years ago. Yet they have all been replaced, as…
August 26, 2020
Dan Koenigshofer
Having recently been appointed to serve on the Commissioning Program Business Partners Task Force for the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), I'm looking forward to learning about and contributing to the efforts to win funding for commissioning, particularly in existing buildings.…
August 26, 2020
I recently took part in a panel for the Tulsa chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) focusing on healthcare. With the need for outpatient clinic facilities and medical office buildings on the rise today, the developers, brokers, and other real estate…
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