Architecture promotes the type and quality of care an operaf f tor expects to provide. The challenge for designers is to create environments where people live, visit and work while maximizing the ...

Evidence-based design (EBD), now a popular concept in health care facilities, is a very powerful tool. When it is used to manage IAQ through use of natural ventilation in HVAC system design, we must ...

This blog post was authored by Amy Kotchevar, CID, IIDA, NCIDQ, EDAC, Senior Interior Designer, BWBR. Architecture and interior design hold incredible power to impact lives—improving patient outcomes, ...

As a follow-up to its book Evidence-based Design for Healthcare Facilities, HDR Architecture, Inc. has released three video case studies that highlight evidence-based design principles in action.

Evidence-based assessment design (ECD) provides a conceptual framework for identifying observable evidence that supports the measurement of unobservable constructs, defined as as knowledge, skills and ...

Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...

Evidence-based design has become the fastest growing trend in healthcare development. In EBD, decisions about the built environment are based on credible research that will, in turn, create the most ...

The architecture industry has historically faced representation gaps. When asked about the lack of prominent female and minority architects, Cadet pointed to the profession’s origins in the U.S. as a ...

Underrepresentation of women in medtech research and development could have an impact on women’s health outcomes, believes Aarti Swaminathan, senior human factors consultant and manager at ClariMed ...