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It’s that time of year again--Spring Training, March Madness, and PDC Summit! We're serving up a a great line-up of sessions featuring timely info on energy procurement, hybrid OR's, and even LEAN techniques to reduce energy consumption. See more details...

We often mistake system-problems for people-problems. We assume people are lazy or difficult, when they are exhausted or uninformed. Consider what information they need, what motivates them, and what in their environment is working for or against them.

Designing a healing place now means understanding how a building affects its people and its environment. How did we partner with Perkins+Will to achieve optimal healing AND building performance?

Why updating the electrical codes for Healthcare facilities is our fundamental duty as environmental stewards.

We're serving up a great line-up of sessions featuring timely info on patient-centered smart buildings, energy efficient design case studies, and even international insight for solving domestic healthcare facility challenges.

We see a large part of our role is to provide you, our clients, peace of mind. This implies both trust and appropriate outcomes. What better design validation than measuring actual performance?!

We've listened to you, our clients, as we've collaborated on a project. Reading between the lines, we hear your need (and the Healthcare industry's need) to push for more sustainable outcomes.

We remain committed to helping, whenever possible, to eliminating waste in all its forms. And, not only are we walking the walk – we hope we are leading by example. Everything is possible, if we decide to make it so.

Packard Children’s Hospital, in Palo Alto California, will be one of the most sustainable large hospitals in the country. It will be the first US hospital to use Displacement Ventilation in all patient areas, reducing first costs and energy consumption/costs.

It’s that time of year again--Spring Training, March Madness, and PDC Summit! We're serving up a a great line-up of sessions featuring timely info on energy procurement, hybrid OR's, and even LEAN techniques to reduce energy consumption. See more details...

Our hypothesis, though controversial for some, is that we frequently over-ventilate spaces. We don’t truly understand ‘why’ the standards prescribe a certain number of air changes. As a result, hospital owners (likely) are wasting energy dollars without improving indoor air quality.

Micro-grids "trending," and our fuel cell knowledge base growing: How will this fit in with regulations?