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For those who think sustainable design differentiates you, or maybe that sustainable design is not yet here to saty: wake up. Green design is a given. Fast Company interviewed Clive Roux, the chief of the Industrial Designers Society of America, which runs the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs), and during this year’s awards he was […]
August 28, 2010
Sometimes I think what healtcare design needs is a dose of levity to institute change. Rarely does anyone single out the institution which sometimes stands at the intersection of commercial and societal trends. Hospitals do so much good, how could anyone pick a fight with them? Maybe from time to time someone should, along with the architects, engineers and […]
August 27, 2010
Entire business models center around this very question: specialist or generalist? Professional service providers live and die by this position, and yet choosing one inevitably leads to ‘the grass is always greener’ scenario. I have been on a team that was turned down for a cancer center project not because we did not have cancer […]
August 26, 2010
Writer and artist Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, has a unique perspective to sustainable design with his own house as a case study. He offers it up in the Wall Street Journal blended with his usual brand of sarcastic but light-hearted humor. Enjoy!
August 25, 2010
Let’s face it: the old 15, 20, 25-year master plan is dead. It is simply too difficult to plan that far into the future. No one knows what healthcare will look like five years out. Given the speed of information and industry change, forcasting is minimally fruitful due to its relative inaccuracy. Technologic, informational, economic and legislative […]
August 20, 2010
Continue to exercise your patience for LEED for Healthcare a little longer. On Tuesday, the USGBC announced its third period for public comments. There were suspicions this might happen, but I think this is an unprecedented wait for any USGBC rating system. To me it signifies both the complexity of the task (melding both USGBC and […]
August 18, 2010
If Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a little difficult to pull off for most teams, it is probably because a different service pardigm is required for proper execution. Although we cannot take credit for its invention, at Haskell we use the term “servant leadership”, and it is one of the core values we work by whether […]
August 16, 2010
My position on preventative healthcare as a way to help fix the current healthcare industry’s runaway costs is fairly well established. To prove how out-of-touch healthcare is, or has the potential to be, I offer a true story. When I moved to Florida I had to re-establish my entire network of providers—dentist, eye doctor, physician. I […]
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