The new 1.3-million-square-foot South Niagara Hospital (SNH) under construction in Niagara Falls, Ont., is on track to become Canada’s first WELL-certified hospital, signalling a new era of ...

The health care system is making big changes, down to the smallest details, for the 864 patient rooms in the academic ...

In early 2020, Taikang Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, urgently hired Johnson Controls to install the necessary infrastructure to support 300 beds to treat COVID-19 patients. Within days of ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) is recognizing 10 projects with its 2023 Healthcare Design Awards.. The awards recognize cutting-edge designs that ...

The U.S. Green Building Council has been at the forefront of environmentally friendly hospital design, awarding highly-sought LEED certification to hospitals that show efficient design ...

Oslo’s Akershus Hospital, completed in 2008, won the coveted Better Building Healthcare Award for Best International Design in 2009 and is widely recognised as anexcellent example of modern ...

Views of ward building for Renkioi Hospital (detail), designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1857. [Image: Wellcome Collection/ Wiki Commons ] Construction of Brunel’s field hospital began on May ...

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania built its new 17-story building on a grand scale. With 1.5 million square feet, 504 patient rooms, 47 operating rooms, and an acre of green space, The ...

Proficient healthcare design gives hospitals the buildings and framework to help them gain efficiency and avoid risks associated with healthcare reform. Doug Strout, healthcare practice leader for KMD ...

So the new more-than-500-room building uses an “onstage/offstage” design to minimize noise and disruption. Private patient rooms are “onstage,” lining the outside of the building.

To understand why the Vascular Institute's design is so forward-thinking, it’s important to know a little bit about the system the building is dedicated to. Dr. Nick Hopkins, the hospital's ...