Enhancing Children’s Healthcare with Thoughtful Design
When it comes to designing children’s healthcare facilities, more care needs to be used. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are deeply personal places. People are at their most vulnerable in these buildings, asking for help and hoping for positive results. It’s...
Reactivation care centre begins ascent in Hamilton
More patients who no longer require acute care services in Hamilton, Ont., will soon be able to transition into a new alternative facility for restorative and specialty care. The province will invest more than $16 million into a reactivation care centre, which broke...
Planning for growing computer science programs
Driven by emerging AI developments and digital transformation in the business world, university computer science programs are projected to grow by nearly 15% by 2030. These programs serve both the underlying basic computing research, along with applied computing...
Make Smarter Investments in Resilient Supply Chains
More than ever, companies need supply chains that are resilient to disruptions, whether the cause is a natural disaster, an infrastructure failure, labor actions, or a global pandemic. Yet the conventional approach to resilience is seriously flawed. Many companies...
Hybrid work: do you want a mule or a platypus?
Here’s a question I bet you’ve never been asked. How would you describe the hybrid workplace: as a mule or as a platypus? Stick with me. In the six years since Kevin Eikenberry and I wrote “ The Long-Distance Leader, Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership,” a...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Plan to Decarbonize Buildings in America
As a nation, our buildings will play a pivotal role in achieving our clean energy future. Buildings are where we live, work, and play—so it makes sense that we spend 90% of our time in buildings and that our buildings use a substantial amount of energy. Residential...
Ground Broken on New Fayetteville Medical Center
A partnership of Remedy Medical Properties and Georgia Urology broke ground for the Fayetteville Medical Center, a new 20,213-square-foot medical office building (MOB) and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) near the Piedmont Fayette Hospital campus. Georgia...
Facility Management: First Line of Defense in Healthcare Facilities
Healthcare facility managers are cornerstones of emergency preparedness because they provide a foundation for a safe, effective response to crises. Emergency preparedness—especially in the healthcare sector where lives are at stake—is not just a regulatory...
WellStar Kennestone Hospital PICU Installs SHIELD WALL
Abatement Technologies has provided containment solutions for the construction of a brand new pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia. As contractor for the PICU build within the active facility, Segars Group selected...
Janitorial Bill May Spike Facility Costs
During the COVID-19 pandemic, facility managers scrutinized their cleaning efforts to ensure that surfaces were properly disinfected to prevent the spread of the virus. When occupants were allowed to return, cleaning frequencies — and cleaning budgets — increased to...