For every 100 pounds of construction material brought to the site, 30 of it will be wasted. This creates enormous pressure to recycle, reuse and repurpose wherever possible. Here are eight sustainable construction techniques to help you reduce waste in your building processes.
Medical care facilities were designed with “normal” care business in mind. They were certainly not designed with the flexibility needed to treat pandemic patients. So let’s examine a few ways healthcare facilities leaders can create facilities flexibility.
Selecting the right green construction materials can be difficult. It’s hard to know which ones truly follow sustainable practices from their raw state to the supply shelf. As you consider materials, examine the process required to get to that end-state material along these five parameters.
The experience of a college campus is always greater than the sum of its parts. And when it comes to capital planning, leaders need to think beyond the hard data captured in a typical FCA.
When emergencies strike, healthcare providers shine by caring for those affected. But what if healthcare facilities are damaged in a disaster? How might that affect patient care? Read this to learn how mitigating risk and recover quickly from disaster.
With a second wave of COVID-19 now sweeping across of the nation, it’s appropriate to look back on the first wave to better prepare our hospitals. What risks do our facilities hold? And what can be done to address them? One unexpected area of risk: Entrances.
Three essential questions to guide your project selection amidst budget challenges and enhance decision-making.
Here are five strategies to help keep your capital budgets intact while making critical investments while taking advantage of this unique investment window.
It’s a question echoing across colleges and universities around the world: How do we schedule classes and maintain a safe social distance? In this blog post, we turn that question on its head and ask if social distancing can improve higher ed classroom utilization.
Here are three steps for taking advantage of currently empty campuses in order to build data-based plans for the next season.
