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Catherine Gow, November 2011

Designing and detailing the next generation of patient rooms to decrease falls and hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is extremely significant for our healthcare systems. Since Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals are continuing to decrease, it is more important than ever for the healthcare industry to ...

The Demise of the Cubicle

John Campbell, LEED AP, AIA, RIBA, October 2011

Employers these days are taking a deep look around their office environments and realizing that they do not reflect today’s work styles.The original idea behind the cubicle’s design, which came out in 1967, was to allow employees to privately concentrate on their tasks at hand. The designer, Robert Propst, ...

Devising Flexible Hospital Interiors

October 2011

Two recent projects by the New York office of architecture firm Francis Cauffman demonstrate the importance of flexibility to health care interior design.In creating a new entrance adjoining St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center and St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Paterson, N.J., the architects were ...

Reinventing the Suburban Campus

September 2011

Francis Cauffman completed the first phase of the Almac Group’s new North American headquarters. Inspired by the company’s Irish roots, the design team has taken elements from North American and European office cultures and combined them into one building.The result is not a typical office park: it’s ...

Reinventing the Suburban Campus

September 2011

Taking a Fresh Look at Family-Centered Care

Matthew Leonard and Jennifer Kenson, September 2011

Until quite recently, a patient could walk into a hospital and know immediately if it was a place for children or a place for adults. Different age groups, administrators thought, required different environments. Most pediatric wards looked and felt like interior playgrounds. Adult settings were the complete opposite ...

Irish Inspiration

August 2011

Design team takes reference from client's Irish roots for major North American HQ Francis Cauffman has completed of the first phase of the Almac Group’s new North American headquarters. Inspired by the company’s Irish roots, the design team has taken elements from North American and European office ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN WINS, FOR CORPORATE AND HEALTHCARE PROJECTS, TWO ANNUAL IIDA DESIGN AWARDS

August 2011

Philadelphia, PA – Francis Cauffman announces that the PA/NJ/DE Chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has presented the architecture firm with two awards: the Best Interior Design of 2011 ...

Whole lot of holes in the ground

August 2011

Two years after the market bottom, 646 sites stuck on city’s list of stalled projectsIn the spring of 2008, Time Equities began demolishing the three buildings at 50 West St. to make way for a $600 million, 62-story hotel and residential development. Several months later, Lehman Brothers—and the financial ...

Francis Cauffman Reinvents the Typical Suburban Campus

July 2011

It’s not a typical office park: it’s an open and transparent headquarters in a suburban setting that consolidates the Almac Group’s North American businesses in one location. the completion of the first phase of the Almac Group’s new North American headquarters. Inspired by the company’s ...

Francis Cauffman Reinvents the Typical Suburban Campus

July 2011

Teamwork Bringing Better Healthcare to Urban Residents

July 2011

A plan for redeveloping St. Joseph’s Health System (SJHS) in Paterson, NJ, is starting to become a reality: the first signs of changes are starting to surface. A two-story lobby that connects its new critical care building (which will officially open in September) and the children’s hospital – ...

Parts Included

William Weathersby, June 2011

A cartoon by Joe Dator in the May 9 issue of The New Yorker shows two headset-wearing office workers seated side by side in oil drum-like enclosures.So how do you like the new cylindricals?” reads the caption. Elsewhere in the same issue, a drawing by P.C. Vey shows a suited gentleman peering over a chest-height ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN APPOINTS MICHAEL BONOMO AS DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE INTERIOR DESIGN

May 2011

New York, NY – Francis Cauffman, the award-winning architecture firm, announces that Michael Bonomo has been appointed Director of Corporate Interior Design for the firm’s New York office. For the last 13 years, Bonomo has designed corporate spaces for large prominent clients. His award-winning work ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN APPOINTS JENNIFER BROWNE AS DIRECTOR OF LABORATORY PLANNING

May 2011

Philadelphia, PA – Francis Cauffman, an award-winning national architecture firm, has appointed Jennifer Browne as Director of Laboratory Planning. Ms. Browne has been planning laboratories internationally for more than 30 years. She has extensive experience in designing labs with different security and ...

New research building designed for interaction

Thomas Adams, April 2011

The new Saunders Research Building at the University of Rochester Medical Center opens today.The first of 600 scientists, statisticians, research administrators and support staff members begin moving into the facility next week. The final touches for the $60 million building included painting walls, placing furniture, ...

More Space, Lower Costs

Kim Hong, March/April 2011

It’s been called a “perfect storm.” The current financial crisis has wreaked havoc on the business world across all sectors, and according to market analysts, it has permanently changed the way law firms do business. From reducing starting salaries and billing rates to cutting staff, it is clear that ...

Division of Labor

Jacqueline Pezzillo, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Winter 2010/2011

Twenty-five years ago, Stephen J. Hegeman, AIA, currently a principal at Francis Cauffman Architects, was working on a project in Philadelphia with CAD drawings produced by a firm in Palo Alto. The practice of outsourcing – contracting professional services to a third party – is not new, but has ...

Collaborative Project Delivery: Better than IPD?

Aran McCarthy, November 2010

All too often, the building process is slowed down by the fear of potential problems. With this fear comes the exhaustive search to find solutions that minimize team members’ potential liabilities and yield a better product. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), with its emphasis on a culture of collaboration, open ...

A Culture of Green

Lissa Bryan-Smith and Aran McCarthy, November 2010

How one healthcare system’s leadership style made the process of going green so successful.Cited by President Obama as a model for high-quality medical care at affordable costs, administrators at the physician-led not-for-profit Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, have made a system-wide commitment to ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN ANNOUNCES NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

October 2010

PHILADELPHIA, PA – National award-winning architecture firm Francis Cauffman has announced that Suzanne Linus has joined the firm as the Business Development Manager for the Philadelphia office. Ms. Linus brings more than a decade of experience in cultivating business relationships and building marketing ...

St. Michael’s in Newark Begins $250M Transformation

September 2010

Medical center project is centerpiece of the Broad Street Station District Redevelopment Plan Saint Michael's Medical Center bid a ceremonial farewell Wednesday night to Mother Schervier Hall and outlined plans for the future. Built in 1951 and named for Mother Frances Schervier, the foundress of the ...

N.J. Hospital Modernization

July 2010

NEWARK, N.J. — Phase one of a $225 million master planned construction project that will address the future needs of an outdated medical center is under way.Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, N.J., is a 357-bed hospital, teaching and research facility that was established in 1867. The medical ...

143-YEAR-OLD ST. MICHAEL’S MEDICAL CENTER IS STILL GROWING; URBAN HOSPITAL INVESTS $225 MILLION IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

June 2010

Construction will create economic opportunities, align with Newark’s redevelopment efforts, and increase the hospital’s ability to keep up with growing demand.NEWARK, NJ – Architecture firm Francis ...

Francis Cauffman Begins SMMC Master Plan

June 2010

Phase One is 220,000 square feet of new construction, which adds 10% of space to the existing Saint Michael’s Medical Center campusFrancis Cauffman announces that it has begun Phase One of a comprehensive, $225 million master plan of Saint Michael’s Medical Center (SMMC)—a member of the Catholic ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN’S RECENT PROMOTIONS RECOGNIZE TALENT AND EXPERTISE

May 2010

New York, NY – Francis Cauffman, an award-winning architecture firm with offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, has recognized its in-house talent by promoting 13 members of its staff. Gloria Cascarino, Haley Driscoll, Dana Eddowes, James Hammond, and Erin Kelly have all been promoted to Senior ...

Rochester Institute of Technology, Institute Hall, Rochester, NY

May 2010

Budjet: $26 million.Size: 78,000 ft2.Project team: Francis Cauffman, New York City (programming, planning and architectural design); Bergmann Associates, Rochester (architect of record, interiors, MEP engineering, landscape architecture, site/civil engineering); contractor TBA.Completion date: 3Q2012Description: New ...

Rochester Institute of Technology Expands Scientific Programs

May 2010

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY, has selected the architecture team of Francis Cauffman and Bergmann Associates to design Institute Hall, a 78,000-sq-ft., a $26M research building. The state-of-the-art facility will provide space for RIT’s new chemical and biomedical engineering ...

Outside Help

May 2010

Francis Caufman’s Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute maximises exterior interaction to create a conducive healing environmentMajor American hospitals have often grown exponentially over the years, becoming increasingly complex and specialised. The challenge for healthcare providers is to make the public aware of ...

Ultimate Achievement

April 2010

Health Facilities Management is proud once again to co-sponsor the Vista Award, which is presented annually by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association and the American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health. The award recognizes outstanding teamwork in ...

ARCHITECTURE FIRM FRANCIS CAUFFMAN HONORED WITH VISTA AWARD

March 2010

Awards recognize excellence in teamwork in the design and construction of healthcare facilitiesNew York, NY – Architecture firm Francis Cauffman and its design team have been honored with a 2010 Vista Award, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) announced today. The award, in the category of new ...

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INVESTS IN NEW ACADEMIC RESEARCH BUILDING, EXPANDS SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS

March 2010

Sustainable academic research facility by Francis Cauffman and Bergmann Associates will support new degree programs in the sciences and increase Rochester Institute of Technology’s research capacity.Rochester, NY ...

Francis Cauffman and Bergman Associates Chosen to Work on Research Building

Adam Figman, March 2010

Francis Cauffman and Bergmann Associates have been chosen by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to design Institute Hall, a $26 million research building in the school’s Modernist campus. The 78,000 sq.-ft. state-ofthe- art structure will house RIT’s departments of chemical engineering, biomedical ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN HIRES JAMES MAY AS DIRECTOR OF HEALTHCARE

December 2009

New York, NY – The architecture firm Francis Cauffman has hired James May as Director of Healthcare in its New York office. May is an expert in planning and design for healthcare and will be an integral part of the team of architects that expertly guides healthcare systems and academic institutions through ...

PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL GOES GREEN WITH LEED SILVER CERTIFICATION

December 2009

Critical Care Building is part of architecture firm Francis Cauffman’s master plan for Geisinger Health System’s Wyoming Valley campus.Wilkes-Barre, PA – The Critical Care Building (CCB) at Geisinger Health System’s Wyoming Valley campus has received a LEED (Leadership in Energy and ...

$100M Hospital Expansion Underway

December 2009

St. Joseph's Healthcare System (SJHS) has broken ground for a new, $100 million, 230,000 s/f Critical Care Building (CCB), launching the expansion and renovation of St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in downtown Paterson, NJ.The master plan and the CCB, both designed by architecture firm Francis Cauffman, ...

Center of Excellence

Jim Crispino and Aran McCarthy, Winter 2009/2010

Francis Cauffman Architects transforms a community medical center in Pennsylvania into a major regional – and sustainable - institutionA community’s wellbeing and the health of its environment are intimately interrelated. For the Geisinger Health System, this is a guiding principle. When administrators set ...

SJHS breaks ground on $100 million CCB designed by Francis Cauffman

December 2009

Paterson, NJ St. Joseph's Healthcare System (SJHS) broke ground for a new, $100-million, 230,000 s/f Critical Care Building (CCB), launching the expansion and renovation of St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. The master plan and the CCB, both designed by architecture firm Francis Cauffman, will upgrade the ...

Expansion Goes Up and Over

Erin Kelly and Ralph D’Apuzzo, December 2009

Steel framing facilitates multi-phase projectdesigned to add space and functionality.WHEN ATLANTIC HEALTH BEGAN TO IMPLEMENT its 330,000-sq.-ft master plan for Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, N.J., in 2003, two things were immediately clear: the new buildings would be much-needed additions to their campus, ...

NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL IMPLEMENTS EXPANSION PLAN TO REVITALIZE URBAN AREA; BREAKS GROUND ON NEW CRITICAL CARE FACILITY

November 2009

Groundbreaking inaugurates Phase III of Francis Cauffman’s $250 million master plan for St. Joseph’s Healthcare SystemPaterson, NJ – On Thursday, November 12, St. Joseph’s Healthcare System ...

Ground Broken on New $100M NJ Care Facility

November 2009

St. Joseph's Healthcare System (SJHS) has broken ground for a new, $100-million, 230,000 s/f Critical Care Building (CCB), launching the expansion and renovation of St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in downtown Paterson, New Jersey.The master plan and the CCB, both designed by architecture firm Francis ...

Healthcare Gets an Upgrade in New Jersey

November 2009

The St. Joseph’s Healthcare System recently broke ground on a new, $100-million, 230,000-square-foot critical care building, launching the expansion and renovation of its regional medical center in downtown Paterson, NJ. The master plan and the new building, both designed by Francis Cauffman Architects, will ...

A natural path to curb lighting costs

Diane Mastrull, October 2009

In the revenue-squeezed world of business, where the search for cost savings has left no paper clip unturned, you might say a lightbulb has gone on - and, consequently, many others are going off.Corporate leaders are increasingly heeding the call of the '60s hit "Let the Sunshine In," using some ...

High-tech, High-touch

October 2009

As health care has become the focal point of American politics in recent months, and as the debate has nearly reached a boiling point, it’s all too easy to lose sight of the fact that we have one of the most advanced health care systems in the world—with the very best practitioners and hospitals the ...

Trends: The Other Front Door

Catherine Gow, October 2009

Until recently, if you had the misfortune to go to an emergency department, it invariably felt like you were entering the building through the back door. This could be unnerving even to healthy visitors, let alone the hospital’s sickest patients who are most in need of care. Due to the large number of patients ...

Office Design for the New Millennial

Mary Medland, April 2009

The days of your parents’ office – plain looking, with four walls, a door and a Smith-Corona – are numbered.Driven by technology and the millennial generation – those born in the 1982 and thereafter – the workplace today is changing dramatically.Francis Cauffman – a more thant ...

FRANCIS CAUFFMAN PROMOTES THREE HEALTHCARE AND CORPORATE EXPERTS TO PRINCIPALS

February 2009

Philadelphia, PA, February 2009 – Francis Cauffman Architects, an award-winning 160-person architecture firm with offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, announces the appointment of three new principals – Catherine L. Gow, Kim Hong, and Aran A. McCarthy. The principals, who are based in Francis ...

Medical building just what the doc ordered

January 2009

On September 3, 2008, the new Critical Care Building at Geisinger Wyoming Valley (GWV) opened to patients. It is the most recent addition to the campus and the second project completed by Franis Cauffman Architects, the Philadelphia, PA-based firm that also designed the master plan for GWV in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With ...

Focus on Design: 2009 Trends Forecast

Suzanne O’Connell, Jan/Feb 2009

2009 Interior Design TrendsEnhancing patient experience and sustainability are the broad trends that continue to shape healthcare interior design. I recently presented at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium in Chicago and aspects of these important trends were evident in many of the presentations and in the products ...

New Projects: University of Rochester, Clinical and Translational Science Building, Rochester, NY

December 2008

Budget: n.a.Size: 200,000 sq/ft.Project team: Francis Cauffman Architects, Philadelphia (architect); Bard Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers, Watertown, Mss. (MEP engineer); Bergman Associates, Rochester ...

Pioneering Science Center Breaks Ground at the University of Rochester

December 2008

The University of Rochester recently announced the groundbreaking for a new Clinical and Translational Science Building (CTSB). Designed by Francis Cauffman Architects, the 200,000-square-foot facility will create an integrated home for the school's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). The building ...

Wireless in the ED

Gloria A. Cascarino and Steven M. Newman, November 2008

Taking emergency departments to the next levelWireless technology can dramatically improve throughput in hospitals. This is especially true in emergency departments because the mobility and size of wireless devices can reduce the time from triage to discharge and improve efficiency at various touch points along the ...

BIM Streamlines, and Blurs Lines

Mimi Zeiger, November 2008

Laptop perched on a café table, David Fano scrolls through a presentation he normally shows to his Columbia University architecture students, who are already preparing for digital practice. The screen displays black-and-white elevations, blue wire frames, and rendered models, all drawing types that can be realized ...

Pioneering University Science Center Breaks Ground

November 2008

The University of Rochester announced the groundbreaking for a new Clinical and Translational Science Building (CTSB) to house its Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Designed by Francis Cauffman Architects, the 200,000 s/f facility will create an integrated home for the school's clinical and ...

Francis Cauffman Designs 200,000 S/F Science Center at the University of Rochester: $76.4M Project

November 2008

The University of Rochester has broken ground for the new Clinical and Translational Science Building (CTSB) to house its Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Designed by Francis Cauffman ...

The Healthcare Architect’s Role in Infection Control Risk Assessment

Gloria Cascarino, Volume 7, 2008

Many hospitals are undergoing some form of expansion, renovation or construction to respond to changes in healthcare delivery, emerging technology or demographics. At the same time, regulatory focus on the reduction of hospital-acquired infections has increased the importance of a well-developed infection control risk ...

Mercy Health System Completes Phrase One of New Medical Campus

October 2008

How do you . . . develop a hospital and medical center on a former industrial site?Summary: In September, Portland-based Mercy Health System of Maine opened last month its new $49.5 million, 151,000-square-foot brick five-story hospital, phase one of its two-phase master plan by Philadelphia-based Francis Cauffman ...

PIONEERING SCIENCE CENTER BREAKS GROUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

October 2008

The research center is the first new building under National Institute of Health’s grant-making program for translational science; the sustainable facility will foster a creative scientific environment for the discovery and development of medical therapies.Rochester, NY, October 27, 2008 – The ...

Francis Cauffman designs master plan for Mercy Health Syst. of ME

October 2008

With the completion of the first phase of its new hospital, Mercy Health System of Maine has one of the newest acute care hospitals in the city in over 25 years. Francis Cauffman Architects created the master plan for the 42-acre site along the Fore River, which will accommodate a 50% increase in the hospital's ...

MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM OF MAINE BUILDS NEW MEDICAL CAMPUS ALONG THE FORE RIVER; EXPANDS ITS SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

September 2008

The first phase of Francis Cauffman Architects’s master plan puts a hospital and a medical office building on a new campus and rehabilitates a former industrial site. The site of the hospital expansion ...

Mercy Health System of Maine Builds New Medical Campus

September 2008

The first phase of Francis Cauffman Architects’ master plan puts a hospital and a medical office building on a new campus and rehabilitates a former industrial siteWith the completion of the first phase of its new hospital, Mercy Health System of Maine—the fourth largest health system in the ...

Equipment Budget Wizardry – Planning for New Technology

Gloria Cascarino, September 2008

Healthcare equipment planning is always a challenge but a few tricks of the trade can help manage the process.In today’s consumer-driven market, patients are shopping for healthcare, just like they have always shopped for commodities. Technology can give hospitals a leading edge, because the right tools and ...

Ambulatory Advice

Catherine Gow, August 2008

To capture more market share and increase referral bases, many hospitals are starting to build new outpatient facilities. Because outpatient centers provide patients with one-stop health care services where they can have a series of tests quickly, they often provide patients with an effortless experience when compared ...

ALMAC GROUP CONSOLIDATES AND EXPANDS ITS GLOBAL OPERATIONS; OPENS NORTH AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS

July 2008

Francis Cauffman Architects’s master plan helps adapt the operations of the Irish-based company to the U.S. market. The first phase of the headquarters accommodates two divisions of the company. Future phases will ...

Building for Biotech

Jim Daly, July 2008

Biotech is getting buy-in from a host of private investors and public agencies that recognize the ability of biotechnology research to create healthier economies and healthier populations.Since the 1970s, the biotechnology industry has been solving some of America’s most pressing problems by creating ...

The new Mercy

April, 2008

The hospital's Fore River campus is well on its way, with opening day scheduled for September.Brick and rectangular, Mercy Hospital's new home on the Fore River looked much like other buildings under construction around Portland.Then work crews installed soaring windows with pointed arches reminiscent of a ...

Translating Business Cultures into Built Space

Tony Colciaghi, February 2008

"The only way to really serve today's business owners is to be right in the midst of their project development, advising on every aspect of the process," said Anthony J. Colciaghi. A principal in Francis Cauffman Architects' corporate division, one of its four specialties, Mr. Colciaghi explained ...

Prescription for Paterson

James Crispino, Winter 2007/2008

St. Joseph’s Healthcare System teams with Paterson, New Jersey, with a master plan by Francis Cauffman Architects that is proving to be the best remedy for a former industrial city.Hospitals help to cure people when they are sick. Less often do health-care institutions administer treatments to improve the ...

The New Age of Hi-Tech Hospitals

September 2007

Information Technology and digitally enabled medicine may be converging onto a single system, but are architects prepared to take the lead with their health-care clients.The best new digitally enabled American hospital of the next five years may be in Qatar. This tiny Middle Eastern state has brought together American ...

How Innovation Can Build Scientific Leadership

James Crispino, September 2007

A partnership between the University at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute has helped turn an old industrial city into a center of medical science.When it comes to new scientific research facilities, academic institutions that are creative from many perspectives--technically, organizationally, and ...

Rethinking the E.R.

April 2007

Evidence-based design makes the crowded, chaotic emergency room a thing of the past.Most everyone, at some point in life, experiences an emergency room. For me, it was a gash on my forehead in the ninth grade that required stitches. By the time my mother and I navigated our way through the parking garage, past ...

Double Smart

Sofia Galadza, October 2006

Two Institutions – University at Buffalo New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Center for Genetics and Pharmacology – come together in a cutting-edge research center designed by Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffman Architects.Two heads are ...

Business Facilities

Andrea Menendez, September 2006

Start-up is no longer a four-letter for cities recovering from recession. To the contrary, in many such cities, start-ups are helping set the stage for a viable economic future.While venture capital may be in short supply these days, stressed communities are increasingly assuming the role of an investor, absorbing ...

Partnering for Research: The New Buffalo Life Sciences Complex

August 2006

This new facility is designed to attract research talent and facilitate collaboration between public academic research, private for-profit science and medical products developers.The City of Buffalo and New York State Governor George Pataki are betting that the recent opening of two new buildings of the Buffalo Life ...

Up with the New

July/August 2006

Buffalo Life Sciences ComplexThe Buffalo Life Sciences Complex at Ellicott and Virginia Streets is the Buffalo and Niagara Medical Campus’s newest building and a major complex in itself. It houses the State University of New York at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life ...

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