Designing A Design And Building Health Care Facilities For Higher Efficiency And Sustainability

This manifesto proposes an approach to sustainable design that I am interested in exploring during my time studying architecture. The idea of sustainability is a complex one, not without apparent contradictions. This makes it difficult to define in a wholly satisfactory manner. For the purposes of this manifesto I will advert to the definition proposed by Jason McLennan who asserts that sustainable design: “seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.” I find this definition particularly useful in the emphasis which it places on quality. By quality, in this

Being environmentally friendly isn’t merely a trend. After thousands of years of using the earth’s resources, we have finally come to realize that we are destroying this beautiful gift we were honored with. Architects play an influential role in trying to preserve this gift by encouraging a multitude of strategies that can be more cost efficient in the long run, be more comfortable for its users, and most importantly, have a lower carbon footprint. Strategies can include drastic changes to heat and air systems, construction material selections, or even specific design details to the architecture of a building that would reduce the amount of energy it consumes.

The book's selection of outstanding, best quality work provides several examples for homeowners with a discerning sense of style and environmental responsibility. The spectrum of featured projects has a range between energy efficient restoration and the construction of intelligent extensions to the planning and building of new low-energy or passive homes. The book introduces not only the current building forms and materials but also case studies examining the best division of space, architectural planning, and the use of innovative technologies to control and improve heating and air conditioning. Therefore, Building Better provides a striking overview of the topic of sustainable building, and insightful information on details from technical data to blueprints. In the book, both homeowners and architects have their motivations, ideas, desires, and real experiences. Against this background, Building Better is both an inspirational and a practical guide for everyone who thinks that the sustainability not as limiting, but rather as a creative opportunity. As such, it is an essential reference for everyone who wants to build a

Companies whose organizational design supports its employees’ work-life balance may be more financially successful than those that does otherwise. Many employees consider work-life balance more important than the monetary reward. Employees with a balanced personal and professional life demonstrate a better job performance than those who feel “pressured” in either their personal or professional life. In ideal situations, employer demands and employee’s ideal work situation rarely meet the middle ground, those who do, perceive that they are in control.. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Healthcare Clinic’s organizational design based on the employees’ work-life balance.

Hospitals are organizations, which involve constant movement of people hence suitable structures, planning, and facilities should be put to ensure adequate delivery of services. Hospital structures should allow adequate space for expansion. They should be placed where there are many people and in places where they are easily accessible. Hospitals provide different healthcare facilities, inpatient services and outpatient services; this requires proper planning and appropriate buildings to manage different patients.

The purpose of the building is to provide a health care service, therefore the building must be designed and built suited to this. Evaluators must be installed; wheel chair access and automatic doors must all be thought of when designing the hospital.

The Valley Children’s Hospital apartments and condominiums are intended to reduce or eliminate the commute of the hospital staff that would prefer to have suitable living closer to work. Therefore, placement of the apartment complex would need to be nearby Valley Children’s Hospital. The proposed complex would be one to two stories tall, depending on demand and space constraints. Therefore timber, more specifically Douglas fir, is the best choice for construction material. There will, however, be an athletics facility that will be composed of steel. Since the hospital is located on Childrens Blvd, a direct road must travel from the apartment complex to that road or any adjacent roads that lead to Childrens Blvd. Additionally, adequate parking must accommodate all tenants as well as possible guests, while adhering to handicap laws. Considering that the majority of the land surrounding the hospital is undeveloped, proper plumbing, gas lines, and electrical conducts will need to be installed.

The design concept of Riley hospital is promoting children to have hope. There were lots of design features can welcoming patients and visitors such as; design ornaments, artworks and video walls. Experiencing several interesting design features, children will ease their anxiety and fear when they arrived the hospital which usually strike children with fear. Even if the outpatient center main corridor whose aesthetics reflected its age, the new designed building has soothing places that would warmly welcome patients(Children), visitors and staff.

Each volume is made of a series of layers; and “plugged-in” to the main structural core supporting structural loads and providing space for circulation and linkage to each space. Since the concept is based on main core as a platform with several plugged-in volumes, it offers the opportunity of customization. This will give the city-dwellers the capability to resize their living space, reform it, or edit the number of amenities. Compare such level of freedom to design your own space as a resident to what is happening today in the repetitive apartment building

Over the past few decades a small number of designers and design professionals have begun to realize their influence on the natural world and have decided to change the way they think of design and designing. This new approach has become known as sustainable design. Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment. In others words designing physical objects with the idea of creating under the principles of ecological sustainable compositions. This type of design is being having great advance and advertising during the last couple of years, therefore is becoming a new alternative in terms of designing and

If one were to become a full degreed Architect or Engineer, the Specifier magazine is the best source for in-depth articles on new green sustainable building methods. It delves into the arena of Law and Construction management

In the past 15 years, modular constructions are widely used in all kinds of new buildings. Architects prefer the way of built and design because of the sustainable and economic performances. Also, it is an ideal way to improve the variability of a project significantly to adjust to the development of the urban and growth of the population. Texas has the best health care facilities and medical research institutes in the world and keep growing rapidly for decades. It should be a promising design practice to apply modular construction to design and build health care facilities for higher efficiency and sustainability. Although many researches had done in both filed of design, there are only a few attention on strategies to combine them together.

By undertaking an analysis an innovative, perceivably environmentally sustainable building (before analysis) through a Life Cycle Assessment, the author aims to scientifically investigate whether or not environmental sustainability is becoming more central to the design process, and if there are reasons to be optimistic.

As a result of growing evidence regarding the effects of environmental characteristics on the health and wellbeing of people in healthcare facilities, more emphasis is being placed on, and more attention being paid to, the consequences of design choices in general hospitals. A general hospital is a large medical facility where patients with many different types of ailments are given care. In the United States there is a movement to improve the interiors of medical facilities by basing planning and design decisions on this evidence of beneficial features to achieve the best possible patient, staff and operational outcomes constituting evidence-based design. As a result these constructed or renovated hospitals will serve patients and be a workplace for personnel for decades. The impact of the physical environment of general hospitals on the health and wellbeing of the patients as well as staff has received accelerating academic attention. Although, the question still remains whether healthcare design and its enormous cost is worth it. A major factor is that no amount of interior design can make up for experienced staff, state of the art technology, and medicine. It is important to know where medicine stops working and where the environment starts to influence healing. Would it be better for the medical community to invest more of their money, time, and resources into the interior environment or to medical advancements? Therefore, the goal of this research is to find

The concept of achieving design with some focus on performance is not new, the tools and methods that changes. To discuss performance for design, it is important to classify and separate its functions and features. If a building consists of a set of parameters, the design process can be associated to a balance act, where parameters are weight and arranged to fit the context of a project.