SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — CoxHealth’s Cox Medical Center South in Springfield recently completed a new West Tower addition, which houses the new Dee Ann White Women’s and Children’s hospital and the Jared Neuroscience Center.
DALLAS — On Aug. 20, the Parkland Health and Hospital System opened the doors of a new $1.3 billion facility that replaces the old emergency room, which was built in 1954 and beginning to fall apart. The new facility is double the size of its predecessor and was designed to accommodate the growing population in the Dallas/Fort Worth region.
APPLETON, Wis. — St. Elizabeth’s Hospital recently installed a green rooftop garden on top of the new Fremont Tower. Installation of the garden began in mid-July. The 235,000-square-foot, five-story tower will be an inpatient facility, which also has a new radiology unit and a restaurant-style cafeteria named The Market. The new, modern facility will replace a 90-year-old hospital wing and will provide a more comfortable place for patients to recover.
The award-winning international architecture firm Francis Cauffman Healthcare Division announced the appointment of Zlatka Lennihan, AIA, LEED AP, as senior associate/senior project manager in its health care division. Lennihan has more than 20 years of experience representing both the design team and the owner’s interests in the delivery of leading-edge facilities.
CertainTeed introduces a new drywall product called Habito (hab-i-toh) that will be available in the North American market this spring. Habito is the strongest and hardest ½-inch wallboard material available today and features technical benefits previously unseen in the drywall category. It features a new level of flexibility and unmatched performance, including fixing capabilities that eliminate the need for threaded drywall anchors or nailing to wall studs for fixtures less than 30 pounds.
The LEDLB-24E-IR-1550NM LED light bar by Larson Electronics offers high infrared light output and extreme durability for demanding operating conditions. This infrared LED light bar produces 1,550 nanometers of infrared light and produces a beam that is 900-feet long by 100-feet wide. Twenty-four Edison Edixeon 3-watt infrared emitters are arranged in rows and paired with high-purity, 10-degree optics to produce a tightly focused spot beam. This light is also offered in a flood-beam pattern with 35-degree optics to produce a wider beam spread that provides more light over a larger area.
With a rapid opening speed of 60 inches per second, strong rigid slat construction and tight seal around all four sides, the Rytec Spiral door is the ideal solution for parking garage doorways, especially for structures attached to hospitals, office complexes, department stores and malls, government and educational buildings, and other high-use facilities. The Rytec Spiral high-speed doors benefit owners and users of parking structures by keeping up with traffic, as the door opens in under two seconds.
DUBLIN, Calif. — A 1.4-megawatt fuel cell plant will soon provide the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with both heat and power.
RESTON, Va.