Mission Critical
Ask an expert: Hospitals, health care facilities: Sustainability and energy efficiency
Health care facility designers are expected to keep pace with increasingly complex, advanced engineered systems and features
Case study: Hospital expansion incorporates IPD
The owner, engineer, architect and contractor all benefited from an integrated lean project delivery approach with specific partner requirements in place and an insightful understanding of crucial team dynamics
Using Prototype Standards to Accelerate Hospital from Concept to Grand Opening
For a health system building a new community hospital, it’s natural that everyone who will be using the space wants to have a say in how it turns out.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: October 18-24
Read the best articles from the past week. Design considerations for pipe systems and materials, introduction to boilers, 2019 Commissioning Giants, evaluating power quality for mission critical facilities and using demand-controlled ventilation in HVAC.
Allen Institute for Brain Science
The data center heats the labs and offices.
Mount Sinai Miami Beach Expansion Wins IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Award
We are proud to announce that Mount Sinai Medical Center, Skolnick Surgical Tower and Hildebrandt Emergency Center has been awarded a Healthcare Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in the Academic/Teaching Hospitals category.
Lighting & Lighting Controls Study
Lighting in government, military buildings
Evaluating power quality for mission critical facilities
Mission critical and data center facilities that use sensitive power electronics have small tolerances for power source deviations. Power quality and the mitigation of problems affecting power quality are very important to the continuous operation of the facility
Case study: Hospital integrates all stakeholders
Advocate Aurora Health’s Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center will include smart rooms and integrated building systems
Case study: Data center piping
A data center required robust piping to transfer chilled water for cooling