Beginning in the fall of 2011, students filled the hallways of the new Alamosa Elementary Schools for the first time. The project began as a way for the school district to improve academic performance and developed as a way to blend traditional culture with 21st century opportunities. Student comfort and performance guided the design of [...]
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Impacting Quality with Information Technology
Quality without a system to improve it is like Olympic runners without a stop watch. Why bother? In 2012, with commitment, hard work and much needed help and input from my Neenan peers, we completed the first phase of our quality program and tools. The highlight of this process came from our stellar IT guys: [...]
Transforming Healthcare: Coquille Valley Hospital
Obamacare has already begun to make big changes to the way that insurers and hospitals do business. Now it is changing how medical schools train doctors. As Modern Healthcare reports, medical colleges are expanding programs to teach doctors how to coordinate care with other health care workers, focus on patients’ comprehensive, long-term care, and encourage [...]
Transforming Healthcare: Middle Park
The cost of healthcare has ballooned in the US, with $1 out of every $6 spent, used to purchase health products or services. Most healthcare dollars are spent on individuals with chronic conditions, with close to 70% of all expenditures used for emergency rooms and hospital beds. The problem is, while the United States spends [...]
Transforming Healthcare: Tri-Valley Healthcare Systems
With healthcare now 17% of GDP, strategic facility investments, which achieve population health management and integrated care are critically important to healthcare decision makers. Developing space for delivering team oriented primary care medical home care, preventative education, medically integrated health and wellness, expanded outpatient diagnostics and outpatient surgery will serve to enhance market share capture [...]
Leadership For/Beyond Architecture: AIA 2013
“Learn from the people, plan with the people, begin with what they have, build on what they know Of the best leaders, when the task is accomplished, the people will remark, we have done it ourselves.” Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching This post is the second in a series (click here for the first post) [...]
The Change Agent for Health
Located in the heart of southwestern Nebraska is a progressive healthcare system with a clear vision of the future of healthcare. Tri Valley Health System (www.trivalleyhealth.com) located in Cambridge, NE understands that as the community healthcare provider, they stand as the leaders and change agents for the future of the community. Life in this area [...]
Embodied Energy and the Built Environment: An Interview with Brian Dunbar
As part of our blog series on Neenan’s collaboration with the Powerhouse Energy Institute, we recently had the opportunity to speak with Brian Dunbar, a LEED Fellow and Executive Director for the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University on the topic of embodied energy. Professor Brian Dunbar (Image courtesy of CSU) The [...]
Leadership For/Beyond Architecture: AIA 2013
The upcoming 2013 AIA conference in Denver is focused on “Leadership for Architecture” and “Leadership Beyond Architecture,” and will examine architects’ roles as civic leaders. In an effort to understand what these themes mean for architects in the community, we asked several architects at Neenan for their perspective on the theme. Below are our questions, [...]
Material Honesty in Architecture and Construction
Material honesty and expression in architecture has been a point of discussion for over 100 years, after Adolph Loos’ essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ expressed the aesthetic position that architecture and the materials used should express simplicity and honesty. This 1913 essay lay the foundation for both the ‘Arts and Crafts’ and Bauhaus movements’ aesthetic and [...]
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