Healthcare

This paper is intended to catalyze the “next steps” in healthcare climate leadership, with NAM at the helm. Now is the time for healthcare leaders and members of the health professions – among the most trusted people in society – to bend the arc of climate change towards planetary and human health.

Meet Senior Lighting Designer, Lauren Schwade, specializing in Healthcare design, who recently moved to our Atlanta office.

The Guidelines for Healthcare Design and Construction, for many years, has included tables listing minimum requirements for the number of electrical, medical gas, and nurse call devices at various locations throughout a healthcare facility... Time to re-examine these requirements through more research with healthcare facilities.

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?

The International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE), with support from the Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) and Mazzetti, has launched its first ever Global Healthcare Energy Awards. The awards aim to encourage healthcare facilities around the world to commit to a reduction in energy use that will ultimately lessen the entire global health system’s intensive carbon footprint, all through a simple energy tracking process.