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Pages: 392
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Publication Date: May 10,2010
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This essential reference book captures important recent advancements in the quickly evolving field of sustainable medical center architecture. Today’s architects must definitely provide hospitals which enable top quality care for diverse individual populations in carbon neutral treatment settings, and this reserve succinctly considers what must be done to be able to meet that problem. The publication includes twenty-eight case research of constructed and unbuilt hospitals from all over the world.
Stephen Verderber considers the continuing future of the medical center, and gives a compendium of 100 planning and design factors for the building type. The contemporary medical center is seen in the context of global weather change, the world’s diminishing natural assets and the spiralling price of operating healthcare services.
Beautifully and extensively illustrated with many photos, diagrams and floor programs, this is important reading for all architects, planners, engineers, product producers, clients, healthcare companies and government agencies mixed up in present and upcoming of sustainable healthcare conditions. They are grouped into five types - autonomous community centered hospitals, kids’s hospitals, rehabilitation and elderly treatment centres and hospitals, regional medical center campuses, and visionary (unbuilt) projects.