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Double Deal

September 1, 2011     Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
A new patient care tower at the John Muir Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area doubles the size of Contra Costa County’s only designated trauma center
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ASHRAE Publishes Latest Guide on Green Buildings for eBook Format

June 14, 2011    
ASHRAE has published its first ever eBook of the GreenGuide for use on the Apple iPad.
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Cabling and wiring systems

April 30, 2011     Richard L. Peck, Contributing Editor and Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
If this truly is the Age of Communications, no institution knows it better than the modern healthcare facility. On top of the traditional intense
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Critical care upgrade

April 30, 2011     Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
UC Davis Medical Center's new Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion doubles its treatment space to better serve inland northern California as the region's level I trauma center.
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It takes a village

October 31, 2010     Shannon Powers-Jones, Contributing Editor
Rady Children's Hospital is a state-of-the-art pediatric village that follows the adage that “It takes a village to treat a child.”
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Systems for Upgrading the Hospital Environment

June 30, 2010     Richard L. Peck and Shannon Powers-Jones, Contributing Editors
Managing the environmental quality of a healthcare facility has become a technological challenge. Air quality, waste management and disposal,
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Makeover magic

June 30, 2010     Shannon Powers-Jones, Contributing Editor
The University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas, Nevada, was first built in 1931 with just 20 beds.
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Innovation through challenges with BIM

May 17, 2010     Hilda Espinal
The Rush University Medical Center is the largest Perkins+Will healthcare project delivered to date using a BIM Platform. It is a 14-floor,
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Creating Plumbing Systems That Deliver

March 31, 2010     Richard L. Peck and Shannon Powers-Jones, Contributing Editors
Plumbing: it may not be the most stirring topic in design and construction, but fail to get it right and nothing else much matters. Probably no
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Key incentives Constructing the El Camino replacement hospital

February 1, 2010     Chris Gaerig, Online Editor
Constructing a replacement hospital next to an existing facility brings with it a number of difficult issues: vibration and noise control,
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