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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 | Apr 13, 2017

The rise of human performance facilities

A new medical facility in Chicago focuses on sustaining its customers’ human performance.

Healthcare Facilities | Stantec | Apr 11, 2017

Today’s community centers offer glimpses of the healthy living centers of tomorrow

Creating healthier populations through local community health centers.

Healthcare Facilities | Apr 2, 2017

Comfort and durability were central to the design and expansion of a homeless clinic in Houston

For this adaptive reuse of an old union hall, the Building Team made the best of tight quarters. 

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 31, 2017

The cost of activating a new facility

Understanding the costs specifically related to activation is one of the keys to successfully occupying the new space you’ve worked so hard to create.

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 29, 2017

Using Better Light for Better Healthcare

Proper lighting can improve staff productivity, patient healing, and the use of space in healthcare facilities

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 29, 2017

Obamacare to Republicare: Making sense of the chaos in healthcare

With a long road of political and financial uncertainty ahead for the healthcare sector, what does this mean for the nonresidential construction industry’s third-largest sector?

Healthcare Facilities | HDR | Mar 24, 2017

5 insights for designing a human-centered pediatric experience

Pediatric experience design must evolve beyond the common mantra of “make it fun” or “make it look kid-friendly.”

Healthcare Facilities | Mar 3, 2017

CBRE: Developing a total project budget for a healthcare capital project

Successfully developing a complete and well thought out Total Project Budget is perhaps the most important task you’ll perform in the initial phase of your project.

Healthcare Facilities | Feb 26, 2017

A Georgia Tech white paper examines the pros and cons of different delivery systems for ICUs

It concludes that a ceiling-mounted beam system is best suited to provide critical care settings with easier access to patients, gases, and equipment.

Healthcare Facilities | LPA | Feb 24, 2017

The transformation of outpatient healthcare design

Higher costs and low occupancy rates have forced healthcare facilities to rethink how healthcare is delivered in their community.

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