Kenall Lighting, a leading provider of commercial lighting solutions, added the MedMaster M4 LED surgical suite luminaire to its health care lighting product line. The new luminaire is designed to support infection control, while supporting surgical teams in the surgical suite with unprecedented lighting performance. The new surgical luminaire also outperforms fluorescent; even with fewer luminaires, higher foot candles deliver lower cost plus energy savings.
The DuPont Tyvek Fluid Applied System is now available nationwide as the newest addition to the portfolio of DuPont air and water-resistive barrier products. It can be used as a stand-alone offering or as part of an integrated system combined with DuPont Tyvek Commercial Wrap or Tyvek CommercialWrap D. DuPont is the only manufacturer of air and water-resistive barrier systems designed to work together on projects where the wall assemblies require both fluid-applied and mechanically fastened building wrap weatherization solutions.
Rich Driggs was named president of Heery International, an architecture, interior design, engineering, program management and design-build firm. Driggs is only the fourth leader of the company since George Heery founded the firm in 1952. In this role, Driggs is responsible for driving growth and overseeing the operations of the Atlanta-based company’s 22 offices around the country. He joined Heery in 2012 as the national director of construction management.
SmithGroupJJR, an architecture, engineering, interiors and planning firm, added Tyler Krehlik, AIA, LEED AP at its San Francisco office. Krehlik joins SmithGroupJJR as associate architect and sustainability advisor for the office’s Healthcare Studio. In his 15 years of practice, Krehlik has established himself as leader in sustainable architecture for both health care and laboratory environments. Krehlik’s primary focus is on the health impact of buildings.
LA MESA, Calif. — St. Louis-headquartered McCarthy Building Companies Inc. began construction on the new 74,000-square-foot Heart and Vascular Center at Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, as well as an 18,400-square-foot energy plant that will reduce the facility’s greenhouse gas emissions.
NEW YORK — In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth in sustainable design and green building practices to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment. Simultaneously, expertise in more traditional building practices such as Feng Shui and geomancy (earth energy studies) has also experienced increasing demand. Array Architects, with offices in New York, used these practices in the recent renovation of The Center for Health & Healing for Continuum Health Partners in New York.
SHANGHAI, China — After four years of construction, Thornton Tomasetti, with offices in Shanghai, announced earlier this month the topping out of the 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest building and the world’s second tallest after the 2,722-foot-tall Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, Un
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Construction on the new Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, which began in the summer of 2011, reached completion earlier this month. HuntonBrady Architects, a health care architectural firm based in Orlando, Fla., designed the 219,000-square-foot hospital.
AUSTIN, Texas — The new LEED-HC rating continues to make its mark as the new W.H.
