November DATELINE Prompts Healthcare Focus
On the heels of last month’s DATELINE healthcare facility issue, the DBIA Book Club is focusing on two new publications, both written by experienced authors with insightful authority in the healthcare construction industry.
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
Robin Guenther, Gail Vittori
ISBN: 978-0-471-78404-3
Hardcover, 448 pages
November 2007
Written by an architect focused on sustainable healthcare design and an expert recognized by Time magazine as a green innovator, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is a primary reference for sustainable healthcare facility design. Building upon the authors’ combined knowledge and experience, the book includes case studies of more than 50 of the best contemporary sustainable healthcare buildings from around the world. The authors provide background on the LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Healthcare rating system as well as the Green Guide for Health Care. Architects, interior designers, engineers, and healthcare professionals and administrators will find this an essential guide to the design of healthy facility environments.
In addition to the authors’ text, the book includes essays by experts on such topics as design and stewardship, the built environment, and human health, ecology and medicine, nature and healing, the carbon-neutral hospital, the integrative design process and integrated operations, and creating the 21st century hospital. Architects and interior designers can apply the knowledge from the essays to the design of multiple building types.
Healthcare Design
Sara O. Marberry (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-471-13349-0
Hardcover, 340 pages
October 1996
Healthcare Design examines all of the basic elements necessary to create physical environments that enhance the quality of healthcare delivery with comprehensive coverage of healthcare design fundamentals from the field’s top professionals.
Written by practicing professionals, educators, and other experts in the field, this book is an essential cornerstone for anyone building a career in healthcare design.
Combining important concepts with practical guidance, this definitive resource:
- Covers planning, designing, and furnishing of cost-effective, efficient facilities that serve patient needs.
- Contains product specification information for a range of design components — from floor coverings and ceilings to furniture, lighting, textiles, and more.
- Addresses current topics such as way finding, green design, healing art, and therapeutic effects of landscape architecture.
- Features a wide selection of photographs, including an eight-page full-color insert.
As massive changes in healthcare financing and delivery sweep the industry, the question of how to create facilities that address market considerations, satisfy government regulations, and accommodate patient needs is setting the agenda for today’s healthcare design professionals.
Healthcare Design is the first comprehensive source of basic information and resources necessary to plan, design, and furnish efficient physical environments that facilitate quality healthcare delivery. Written for architects, designers, and planners who are new to this growing field, the book presents key contributions from leading experts within an overall framework based on the healthcare design certificate program offered by New York University.
Practical ideas are provided for every stage of the design process — from site visits and programming to design implementation and evaluation. The book provides extensive product guidance and coverage of new trends, such as green design and therapeutic effects of landscape architecture. The photographs that accompany the text vividly illustrate design concepts while showcasing the work of some of the best professionals in the business.
Cutting-Edge Innovation on Tap
Gone are the days of putting pen to paper to conceptualize and complete a project in today’s design and construction industry. From 3-D Business Information Modeling to a plethora of software to assist in virtually every design-build stage, applying the latest technology to any project is often crucial for on-time completion and meeting budget goals.
As technology touches virtually every aspect of a design-build project, either directly or indirectly, the DBIA Book Club carries several titles that can enhance tech knowledge for that next design-build commitment.
Just as technology moves at a rapid pace, so does DBIA’s eye toward the latest, most informative books to help our membership in virtually every aspect of the design-build process. The following three texts are essential if interested in the wide variety of technology topics within the design and construction industry. Written by diverse experts on each topic, these books will definitely enhance your learning and become valuable assets to your library.
Daylighting Performance and Design, 2nd Edition
Order Number: 5015
In a room with no windows and typical artificial light, try to pick out two similar clothing colors to see if they match, or try to complete that next graphic project using only the overhead fluorescents. It’s not easy. But view those same items using sunlight, and their contrasts and colors seem to jump out at you.
The impact and usefulness of sunlight is a concept not lost in design and construction and is a focus of this work by Gregg D. Ander. “Daylighting” is the process of incorporating natural lighting into the design of buildings, through the use of windows and openings that reduce the need for artificial light. This new edition makes theory, calculations, and execution crystal clear with straight-to-the-solution examples and uncluttered language. In a practical, applied approach, this book covers daylighting strategies, materials, and methods of construction, including significant advances in lighting and daylighting technology for use in your next project.
Building Technology: Mechanical and Electrical Systems, 2nd Edition
Order Number: 5102
This is the complete guide to building technology. Written by Benjamin Stein, Building Technology covers the issue from top to bottom, addressing topics such as “heat and human comfort,” “hydronic heating,” and “principles of plumbing.” But it takes a step further, investigating such in-depth issues as “how light behaves,” and the “thermal balance of buildings.”
This comprehensive guide virtually provides complete coverage of every aspect of the building technologist’s profession. Stein establishes procedures for professional field inspections and equipment operations tests, provides real-world examples from both residential and nonresidential construction projects, and makes specific references to code compliance throughout the text.
Extensive appendices include conversion factors; duct design data; test report forms for use in field work; design forms and schedules for electrical; HVAC; plumbing work; and more.
Designing for a Digital World
Order Number: 5103
Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture? Editor Neil Leach brings together more than 20 of the world’s leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. The discussion ranges from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction. Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline.
WHERE TO BUY: DBIA (www.DBIA.org)