Today, new health reform guidelines and value-added functionality like digital signage and clinical display applications are transforming the healthcare display space. Advances in technology and evolving hospital and healthcare missions have created a paradigm shift for hospital administrators, facilities directors and other decision makers, who are investing in hospital-grade display solutions that extend beyond the basic entertainment function.
Lost patients and visitors are one of the top causes of low patient satisfaction scores. In today’s healthcare environments, effective wayfinding is paramount. The latest advances in wayfinding design embrace many new approaches to orchestrating visitor orientation and movement. Integrated Wayfinding, Progressive Disclosure, Wayfinding Training are but a few of the concepts that must be considered as a part of any comprehensive program.
Audio consulting engineers partner with architects to help them stay on top of communications and overhead paging trends, win bids and exceed client expectations. This paper reviews current industry trends, as well as the role that network-based public address (PA) plays in future-proofing hospital PA systems, which improves overall communications, operations, and enhances patient, staff and visitor experience.
With the rise in concern over sustainability, members of the design community have increasingly demanded alternative plastics. Ideally, all manufacturers should be moving toward what are known as biopolymers or bioplastics – those polymers derived from renewable and often plant-based sources. As with any pioneering venture, R&D and the actual production of bioplastics in architectural products are fraught with their own challenges to producing durable products at price levels acceptable to the market.
The winter of 2011 brought an unusual amount of ice to the Atlanta area. A sudden storm left roads impassable, and schools and businesses shut their doors as Georgians avoided the layers of ice and blistering cold that had engulfed the city. Just south of Atlanta, an under-construction hospital was left to weather the storm with little more to its walls than DensGlass® Sheathing from Georgia-Pacific Gypsum.
If you have ever omitted an expansion joint from a structure by design or are thinking about trying it, think again. The forces of Mother Nature will put one in if you don’t and it will not be put there in a straight line.
This white paper will give you a basic understanding of building movement, common terminology, the basics of expansion control and the critical issue of fire ratings and fire barriers for expansion joints.
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The patient television experience has changed dramatically over the past several years. Advances in technology and consumer demand have changed the way television programming is delivered and the way televisions display it. With expanded options, many facilities are not prepared to evaluate all the steps necessary in preparing for this new environment. From HD to interactive patient television, those that are knowledgeable will be in a better position to provide a comprehensive solution that will meet the needs of the hospital staff and the patient.
You don't need an intimate knowledge of the history and science of wayfinding to understand its critical importance in your life. Good signage can get you from Point A to Point B, but without a carefully constructed wayfinding plan, signage without strategy isn't wayfinding – it's visual clutter. Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a hospital lobby, with corridors radiating in three different directions. You know where you should be – say, the maternity ward – but not necessarily how to get there.
Over the next five years or so, the entire building design and construction industry will be engaged in a major revolution thanks to a new computer-based system called BIM – Building Information Modeling. Actually, BIM isn’t all that new. Some architects and contractors have been using the system for several years. What’s new is that the adoption rate for BIM is accelerating rapidly, with more and more architects and contractors using the powerful computer-based system. This white paper will give you a basic understanding of the BIM revolution and its potential.
