All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Healthcare - March 07
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Features
Tough as trolleys
British Gypsum will next month launch GypWall Extreme, a partition wall system made to cope with the impact of trolleys or hospital equip-ment, as well as wear and tear from patients and staff.
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Scrubs up well
Functional but dull was the verdict on UCL Hospital, but architects Bert McCabe and Heather Willars of Llewelyn Davies Yeang return to find it full of life
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Product news
This month1. Follow the rainbow Marmoleum by Forbo Nairn has been used at Warrington Hospital by AustinSmith:Lord. Bespoke designs of birds and rainbows, produced using the company’s Aquajet technology, were used in the paediatric area. Inlaid borders were used throughout and differing colours indicate departments and public routes. Marmoleum ...
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Supplier interview
‘The idea of using silver to kill bacteria isn’t a new one’ Sarah Spink, Liquid Plastics Hygiene Market Manager
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Environmental health professor Richard Jackson
‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’
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Building Study
A garden for England
A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent
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Newcomers to create ‘healing environments’
“Why is it that most existing healthcare facilities make people feel sick even if they are well?” asks Dr Ali Parsi, founder of Health Properties Limited.
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Can private clients restore hospital design to health?
Whenever a new healthcare building is praised for good design, the unspoken addendum of “good for healthcare” is left hanging in the air.
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Building Study
Lift and celebrate
In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards
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Smartening up PFI budgets
Architect NBBJ is client design adviser to the North Bristol NHS Trust, using the RIBA’s smart PFI model to develop outline designs for Southmead Hospital in-house before the project goes out to tender.
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Blowing hot and cold
Timber adds warmth at GHA’s 2004 Community Centre for Health, but a draught problem chills the atmosphere. Architects Gareth Hoskins and Clare Kemsley drop in.
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Is culture or environment to blame for sickness in the NHS?
The National Health Service: much praised around the world, but never copied. But at least we lead the world in irony.
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Healing artists
Award-winning healthcare projects at Gareth Hoskins Architects’ are close design relatives to its arts buildings. And why, the practice asks, should it be any other way?
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‘‘Approach it in the same way as any public building”
Established practice Bauman Lyons has its first built health centre, but needs insider knowledge to navigate the NHS to further success. Murphy Philipps is there to help. To put your own question to Philipps fill out the comment box at the end of this story
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BDP and Groupe6 join forces overseas
Healthcare opportunities in emerging markets within the expanded EU and northern Africa will be the initial targets for bdpgroupe6, a new company with international aspirations launched by BDP and its French associate practice, Groupe6.