Avoiding the “Jenga” Building: Addressing Aging Infrastructure for Campus Research Labs
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Tag Archive: Master Planning
How to Design for Adaptive Reuse: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
In a very short period of time, our economy has changed. Now more than ever, it’s important to consider new and viable approaches to how we all do business. One potential opportunity is adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail …
Building for the Next 50 Years: M.T. Mustian Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
In June 2016, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH) broke ground on the M.T. Mustian Center—a 72-bed surgical and adult ICU center named in honor of the late Middleton Truett “M.T.” Mustian, the hospital’s former president and longtime administrator. I served as …
Designing for Flexibility and Adaptability: Helping Healthcare Facilities Respond to Change
Flexibility and adaptability not only play an integral role in improving performance across the healthcare design spectrum, but also in providing value-added design to our clients. Given the ever-changing healthcare landscape, it is vital that hospitals and outpatient facilities are …
Resuscitating Buildings for Healthcare: Adaptive Reuse
Healthcare organizations have been shifting hospital-based services to less costly locations for quite some time, and this is expected to continue as long as health systems deal with decreasing reimbursements and increasing costs. Most organizations are ever more aggressive in …
Faces of GS&P: Tan Zheng
Name: Tan Zheng, AIA, EDAC
Current Title: Senior Architect and Director of Medical Planning
Office Location: Shanghai
Years at GS&P: Almost 1
This Faces of GS&P features Tan Zheng, a senior architect and director of medical planning in our Healthcare …
Planning Buildings for the Future
Much has been written about autonomous vehicles—also known as driverless vehicles—in terms of their safety benefits and their projected impact on transportation. It is anticipated that these robocars of the future will be available to the public by 2025, and …
Margin Pressure Calls for Tactical Network Formation and Balanced Infrastructure Creation
All healthcare providers are experiencing some degree of financial pressure due to contracting reimbursement growth and rising costs for technology, drugs, and human resources. As a result, the healthcare industry has experienced unprecedented merger and acquisition activity. At the national …