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New surgical tower is largest addition to UNC Health campus in Chapel Hill

Construction on UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital, the largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952, was recently completed. The seven-story, 375,000-sf structure houses 26 operating rooms, four of which are hybrid size to accommodate additional equipment and technology for newly developed procedures. 




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Healthcare Facilities

From hospitals to research facilities, healthcare buildings are essential to the health of the world’s population, as well as medical innovation. Designing these structures requires a delicate balance of technical requirements with the needs of doctors and patients, but when done right, these designs can save lives.

Healthcare Facilities | HDR | Feb 28, 2018

Healthcare operations: The good and bad of the ‘visit per room per day’ metric

Merely pursuing a high “visit per room per day” metric may drive up other resource needs and, in turn, raise operational costs, writes HDR's Zhanting Gao.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 16, 2018

Cancer centers' 'one-stop shop'

Healthcare systems ask their AEC partners for design flexibility that is adjustable to advances in medicine and technology.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 14, 2018

Satellite centers keep cancer treatment closer to patients' orbit

This treatment center is half new construction, half renovation of a building that had been used for family services.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 1, 2018

Early supplier engagement provides exceptional project outcomes

Efficient supply chains enable companies to be more competitive in the marketplace.

Healthcare Facilities | Jan 30, 2018

Buffett, Bezos, Dimon partner to tackle the U.S. healthcare system

The three mega companies—Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase—will pursue the formation of an independent company that is “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” when it comes to U.S. employee healthcare.

Healthcare Facilities | Jan 29, 2018

The new Virginia Tech Biomedical Research Addition will include research facilities in five thematic areas

The project is a collaboration between Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech.

Healthcare Facilities | Jan 10, 2018

Healthcare market year in review for 2017

While we have not fully turned the corner on healthcare reform and in particular healthcare payment reform, 2017 confirmed trends of consumerism and the need for more proximate low-cost options.

Retail Centers | Jan 9, 2018

The addition of a medical practice is part of the cure for reviving a shopping mall in Scranton, Pa.

Delta Medix is one of several tenants that are changing the image of the Marketplace at Steamtown.

Healthcare Facilities | Jan 6, 2018

A new precision dental center embodies Columbia University’s latest direction for oral medicine education

The facility, which nests at “the core” of the university’s Medical Center, relies heavily on technology and big data. 

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