Palomar Health and Lifepoint Health to Break Ground on New Behavioral Health Facility

Palomar Health and Lifepoint Health to Break Ground on New Behavioral Health Facility

The Palomar Health Behavioral Health Institute is a two-story, 84,700-square-foot hospital with four 30-bed units. As the demand for behavioral health resources continues to rise, Palomar Health announces the groundbreaking of the Palomar Health Behavioral Health Institute on September 12, 2024. In partnership with Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, this new…

How is Artificial Intelligence Being Used in Healthcare Architecture?

How is Artificial Intelligence Being Used in Healthcare Architecture?

AI presents many potential uses in designing healthcare facilities, though it still requires human oversight. Artificial intelligence represents the advent of many different possibilities for the world, let alone healthcare. Like all markets, healthcare is bound to be transformed by AI and other technologies of the future. One area of healthcare facilities that is test…

What are Lean Practices for Facility Maintenance?

What are Lean Practices for Facility Maintenance?

These practices focus on reducing wasted resources and quicker turnaround times.   August 22, 2024 Facilities managers already have a lot on their plates, spending loads of time on tasks both big and small. Sometimes, this leads to too much time being spent on certain maintenance tasks, meaning other ones go unaddressed. This is something the…

Energy storage becomes a planning consideration

Energy storage becomes a planning consideration

Energy storage gets new prominence in the most recent update of Ontario’s rules for land use planning. The 2024 iteration of the provincial planning statement (PPS), set to take effect on October 20, explicitly lists energy storage systems among the options that municipalities are expected to consider to ensure there is an adequate energy supply…

How Digitalization Is Reshaping the Construction Industry

How Digitalization Is Reshaping the Construction Industry

Nobody wishes to be left behind. And the fact is, digitalization is the future. To propel your organization forward, going digital is the best route toward safer, more efficient and cost-effective operations. But what happens when organizations choose to delay or avoid digitalization? We only need to consider events in recent history to find our…

Design and Construction Strategies for Challenging Moisture Conditions

Design and Construction Strategies for Challenging Moisture Conditions

Buckling of wood structural panel sheathing such as plywood or oriented strand board (OSB) occasionally results when increased moisture conditions cause the wood to expand. Such buckling may occur between supports or between nails along supports. Although structural properties are unaffected, the waviness affects the building’s appearance and may lead to complaints. Builders and designers…