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contents: online contractdesign.com highlights: Design: Cooking Up Fresh Design An appetizing renovation by Kearns Mancini Architects, with Gow Hastings Architects, presents Toronto-based George Brown College Culinary School with a solution to deliver enhanced culinary education to a growing student population www.contractdesign.com/georgebrown contributors: Paula Buick, RN, is the director of healthcare planning with the Boston-based architectural design firm Payette. She combines strong project management and space planning experience with a unique perspective of clinical operations, having been an ICU nurse and senior project manager at Massachusetts General Hospital. Design: Young at Heart The 2010 Healthcare Environment Award, LongTerm Assisted Living winning project NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham, Mass., by Perkins Eastman challenges conventional assumptions www.contractdesign.com/newbridge Susan Cronin-Jenkins, RN, is a senior clinical project manager in the Partners Healthcare Real Estate and Facilities Department at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is responsible for managing multiple clinical capital projects through feasibility, program development, design, regulatory state approval process, and construction. Design: Back to the Future A unique, conceptual design from Clemson University Architects + Health, showcases what patient rooms might evolve to in the year 2020 www.contractdesign.com/patientroom2020 Ross Donaldson is joint managing director of Woods Bagot, one of the world’s leading architectural firms. Recognized with the 2009 International Practice of the Year AJ100 Award, Woods Bagot has a global team of professionals working across North America, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Perspectives: Gianfranco Zaccai The designer of Herman Miller Healthcare’s Compass™ System shares his inspirations behind the project www.contractdesign/gianfrancoQA Perspectives: Chia-Hui Wang Although Wang, the 2010 winner of the AAHID/ Nurture Graduate Research Fellowship, is still pursuing her doctorate in design, she’s making quite a stir in healthcare design research www.contractdesign.com/wangQA Sonia Johansen, LEED AP, is a associate at SmithGroup, an 800-person architecture, engineering, interiors, and planning firm with 11 offices across the United states. Johansen is a designer in the Senior Living and Healthcare Interiors practice at the firm’s San Francisco office. Essay: How Lean Design Can Improve Healthcare Outcomes Combining lean design with two emerging healthcare delivery models is changing the way healthcare is provided to its patients www.contractdesign.com/leandesign Shelbye Maynard, RN, is clinical director PACU, Same Day Surgery and Clinical Radiology Nursing Services for the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. Her leadership as a professional nurse includes expertise in all aspects of Perioperative services. Essay: Designing for Health Follow this online column, contributed by the experts at Perkins+Will, for the latest trends and design challenges in research-based client communications. Read this month’s installment: “Altruism in the Profession: The Role of Social Responsibility” www.contractdesign.com/designingforhealth Joyce Polhamus, AIA, LEED AP, is a vice president at SmithGroup, and she leads the Senior Living and Healthcare Interiors practice at the firm’s San Francisco office. on the blog: Report Predicts Stagnant Interest in Architecture Projects According to recent research, firms will continue to compete for a minimal amount of projects, which will cause more firms to suffer economically www.contractdesign.com/stagnantAD Bill Valentine is chairman and design principal of HOK. A 48year veteran of the firm, Valentine serves as a vocal advocate for sustainability with employees and clients and leads the design of several projects each year. Within the design and construction industry, he actively promotes his definition of “good design” as a simple idea, elegantly executed and inspiring, with social significance and in harmony with the environment. www.contractdesign.com 6 contract october 2010 http://www.contractdesign.com http://www.contractdesign.com/georgebrown http://www.contractdesign.com/newbridge http://www.contractdesign.com/patientroom2020 http://www.contractdesign/gianfrancoQA http://www.contractdesign.com/wangQA http://www.contractdesign.com/leandesign http://www.contractdesign.com/designingforhealth http://www.contractdesign.com/stagnantAD http://www.contractdesign.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Contract - October 2010

Contract - October 2010
Contents
Editor's Note
Industry
Resources
Focus: What's Next
Focus: A New Conversation
Materials: Cork and Circumstances
Green: Net Zero
Practice: The Office That Never Closes
Splashy and Sustainable
The Art of Healthcare Design
Best Foot Forward
Harmonious and Healthy
Of Sea and Stone
Live Long and Prosper
Trends: From Illness Care to Wellness Care
Process: On the Front Line
Designers Rate
Sources
Ad Index
Perspectives

Contract - October 2010