The pandemic caused a myriad of national disruptions. One of the largest, and perhaps most impactful, was a widespread economic slowdown that caused a shift to e-commerce and online shopping. Meaning big-box retail chains had to quickly assess what to do with their large, now...

Spurred by rapid growth, national business, and accounting consultancy EisnerAmper, tapped long-time collaborator FCA to develop their new headquarters, which spans five floors at 733 Third Avenue in New York City, along with Project Managers VVA and JTMagen, one of the leading...

COVID-19’s spread exposed cracks in the healthcare sector, but also opportunities in this sector for AEC firms.

America’s healthcare sector found itself in an ambivalent state in late 2020, as the coronavirus raged relentlessly across the country and as the distribution of two newly...

Over the last several years, healthcare systems have been developing more and more ambulatory facilities to gain market share, build patient loyalty, and provide care closer to the communities they serve. The need to locate this space away from acute care campuses has grown and become...

Staff Efficiency: When designing a new bed floor, we work on making the design as efficient as possible for the nursing staff. We study the footfalls required to do their daily tasks and try to tweak the design until the staff workflow is as efficient as possible.

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Maintaining patient health is always a top priority for healthcare facilities—now more than ever.

Standards of care are designed around patient wellness and multi-disciplinary care that help keep patients out of the hospital. With that objective in mind, materials used within...

Founded in 1985, not-for-profit health system Mainline Health has become a reliable fixture in Pennsylvania because of its high-performance hospitals and healthcare centers across the state. To support its rapid growth, Mainline Health enlisted the help of Francis Cauffman Architects...

Flooring products, as well as what designers and architects want to specify, have changed and developed over the past few decades - mainly impacted by the evolving design approach to healthcare design. Informed by the desire to "do no harm" building healthier hospitals has encouraged...

As the healthcare industry begins to navigate the new realities of a post-pandemic world, we’re seeing changes, both large and small in scale, across healthcare design. During the initial response to the global coronavirus crisis, healthcare facilities had to adapt in order to...