Current trends in healthcare include innovative healthcare delivery models that address patient acuity, such as the acuity adaptability design concept.
Acuity Adaptability: Six key steps in the journey, from need to outcomes
Category: Design Tips
Four ways to minimize occupant impact during renovations and upgrades
Following are four suggestions from IMEG experts to successfully mitigate occupant disruption during renovations and upgrades.
Prototype design: No-cost strategies that reduce risk and save time and money
Creating a successful prototype design for multiple buildings requires extensive planning and preparation.
Key design strategies help make senior living facilities feel more like home
Creating a space that doesn’t just feel like home, but is home to residents, is a challenge design teams face on every senior living project – largely because such facilities require medical equipment reminiscent of a hospital.
7 ways to minimize risk when investing capital in an industrial facility
The industrial and manufacturing business environment is in a constant state of change. Business leaders must react to new technologies, buyer behavior, budget cuts, competitors, and countless other influencers.
Budget-friendly design strategies to mitigate the cost of WELL
Thinking about pursuing WELL Building Standard Certification for a project but concerned about the added cost? Like any option that puts pressure on your budget, the extra expense warrants scrutiny. WELL registration fees range from $1,500 to $10,000, depending on project type and size, and the costs of infrastructure and materials needed to meet the standard’s requirements also add up.
IMEG Office: The design, budgeting, and value of WELL certification
IMEG is passionate about high-performance design and its ability to improve the natural and work environments while helping organizations succeed. Our WELL Building Standard Gold Certification for the renovation of our Denver office gave us the opportunity to practice what we preach. The WELL Building Standard (WELL) is a building rating-system focused on improving the impacts of the
Mitigate your facility’s risk for an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease
By Dave Bodenschatz With nearly 7,500 people contracting Legionnaire’s disease in 2017 – a five-fold increase since 2000 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – healthcare organizations are assessing the safeguards in place to minimize the risk the acquired disease poses to their patients and staff. However, the disease’s bacteria can exist in any
5 ways to harness the energy saving power of your employees
Purchasing Energy-Star appliances, reducing the number of coffee makers and printers, and even going completely paperless are all great first steps to becoming more energy-efficient and reducing your energy usage, but until employees understand why these changes were made – and more importantly buy into the mindset of why these changes are even necessary –
Assessing a facility assessment
Comprehensive, organized approach ensures an accurate analysis
