- Award Totals Rebound
Thanks in no small measure to a suddenly robust privately financed building construction market, the February volume of construction contract awards in the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota rebounded from a sluggish January to nearly equal totals achieved in the first two months of 2004. Another significant ......
- Major Health Care Facility Renovations
Five health care construction projects totaling nearly $100 million are ongoing or planned for completion during the next two years on Minnesota's Iron Range. The IRR Board awarded $750,000 in grants last month that will aid medical facilities in Aurora, Cook, Hibbing, Grand Rapids, and Virginia. Grand Itasca Clinic and ......
- Healthy and Robust
Most firms in the business of designing and building health-care facilities would agree that the market continues to be strong. But 40-year industry veteran Robert Levine is more emphatic. "It's the strongest health-care market I've ever seen in my life! There are no soft spots to speak of, geographically," says ......
- Evidence-based design shapes healthcare facilities: the healthcare industry is guided by painstaking research--studies and benchmarking guide treatment breakthroughs, pharmaceutical innovation, equipment...
Without the evidence gleaned from ongoing research, healthcare would be mired in a sea of outdated medical procedures and drugs. So, why should the facilities that house the most modern medical techniques and treatments remain trapped in the past? "Innovation in healthcare facilities has been slow and has not really ......
- TAYLOR^sup SM^ Transforms Healthcare Architecture in Orange County
Orange County's hospital construction seems to go through a new cycle about every 25 years. Whether it's population growth, new regulatory mandates, technological advances, or changes in the way that healthcare is delivered, after about 25 years, most hospitals are in need of major new building(s). Right now, across the ......
- Smart Designs Keep Healing Process In Mind
In a February survey of 200 senior health care executives nationwide, 69 percent of the executives polled reported that their institution would most likely take on a major expansion project within the next three years. The survey was conducted by Bayer Consulting for Turner Construction Co., a subsidiary of a ......
- Prescription for Success
HEADNOTE Health care company designs and builds relationships with architects and contractors IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 HCA, a health care company that operates nearly 200 hospitals and surgery centers, has little time to train, educate and move its own people from job site to job site. Instead, Tom Gormley, vice president ......