Tag Archive: value-added

Familiarity Breeds Success: The Importance of Using a Consistent Design Team

February 1, 2021

Topre America Corporation, the North American affiliate of the Japanese-based Topre Corporation, specializes in metal stamping for high-strength automotive components. Our relationship with Topre—pronounced toe-pray—began in 2015. It all started when Gresham Smith was approached to see if we …

Designing for Flexibility and Adaptability: Helping Healthcare Facilities Respond to Change

August 16, 2018

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 …

Healthcare and the Reality of Artificial Intelligence

“Hospitals of the future” has been the hot topic of conversation around the proverbial office watercooler. My two cent contribution to these conversations usually comes in the form of my assertion that the pragmatics of healthcare architecture can sometimes …

Margin Pressure Calls for Tactical Network Formation and Balanced Infrastructure Creation

January 31, 2018

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 …

Using Lean Principles to Generate Physician and Staff Buy-In

September 19, 2017

In our healthcare projects, we employ a design framework known as value-added design (VAD), which aims to drive value in six key areas: patient safety; operational efficiency; integration of technology; adaptability and resiliency; sustainability; and evidence-based design for a better …