In September 2013, Mercy Health contracted Danis Building Construction Company to provide construction management for five behavioral health projects. Array Architects served as the design team, working closely with Danis project managers. When a health system identifies a service line to redefine and improve, they benefit from a team of consultants who speak their language, […]
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An urban pediatric hospital on the east coast of the United States serves thousands of patients daily. Recently, in its continuous effort to improve the quality of service, this pediatric care facility hired Array Architects to help design a new clinical space. This new space was expected to house three existing clinics currently operating in […]
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Concurrent with completing the largest Ambulatory Surgery Center on the East Coast, I had the opportunity to present our success with Building Information Modeling at the 16th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress held in October 2014 in San Francisco. Co-presenting with Turner Construction, we set the pace for the conference, kicking off the presentations to […]
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Recently featured in the Society for Health Systems’ March 2015 Newsletter. What can simulation do for your health system? Discrete event simulation is a powerful analysis tool that allows users to test different options with real data before a decision is made. While simulation can benefit various industries, this post focuses on the specific advantages […]
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Environmental Graphic Design (EGD): What is it exactly? Wikipedia defines EGD as a design profession embracing many design disciplines including graphic design, architecture, industrial design and landscape architecture. Practitioners in this field are concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and brands, information design and shaping a sense of place. There are many […]
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Featured in Medical Construction & Design, November 2014. Not one of us undergoes a surgical procedure with the hope of walking out the door with an infection along with their medical bill. Unfortunately, incidents of infections from healthcare facilities do occur, and opportunities for increased incidence are growing with surge of Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) […]
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Several changes to the 2014 FGI Guidelines affect the physical space for behavior health spaces in stand-alone centers and in-hospital behavioral health units. Section 2.5–2.2 General Psychiatric Units was altered this year to add the requirement for a sally port in a locked unit at the primary entrance. The FGI guidelines define “sally port” in […]
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I spend my time on site photographing mistakes. Not really, but that’s how I’m perceived, since much of my time walking through the construction site is spent observing the work-in-progress, and photo-documenting places where it deviates from Array’s construction documents or from best practice. Somebody’s got to do it. It’s interesting to take stock of […]
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