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"With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical our green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come."
--From the Foreword by Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council

INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE FOR THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE DESIGN

Written by a leading healthcare architect named one of Fast Company 's 100 most creative people in business and a sustainability expert recognized by Time magazine as a Green Innovator, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, Second Edition is fully updated to incorporate the latest sustainable design approaches and information as applied to hospitals and other healthcare facilities. It is the essential guide for architects, interior designers, engineers, healthcare professionals, and administrators who want to create healthy environments for healing.

Special features of this edition include:

55 new project case studies, including comparisons of key sustainability indicators for general and specialty hospitals, sub-acute and ambulatory care facilities, and mixed-use buildings New and updated guest contributor essays spanning a range of health-focused sustainable design topics Evolving research on the value proposition for sustainable healthcare buildings Profiles of five leading healthcare systems and their unique sustainability journeys, including the UK National Health Service, Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare, Providence Health & Services, and Gundersen Health System Focus on the intersection of healthcare, resilience, and a health promotion imperative in the face of extreme weather events Comparison of healthcare facility-focused green building rating systems from around the world

Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the design, construction, and operation of state-of-the-art sustainable healthcare facilities.

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• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Key Sustainability Indicators and Infographic(p. xvii)
• Part 1 Context(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Design and Stewardship(p. 3)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• The Case for Stewardship(p. 4)
• Sustainable Development(p. 7)
• The Profession of Architecture(p. 7)
• The Ethical Challenge for Designers(p. 10)
• Ecological Design(p. 10)
• Cleaner Production(p. 11)
• The Patrick H. Dollard Discovery Health Center(p. 12)
• Life Cycle Thinking(p. 14)
• Cradle-To-Cradle Design(p. 16)
• Living Buildings(p. 17)
• Essay: Living Buildings and a Restorative Future(p. 18)
• Conclusion-The Next Generation(p. 21)
• Chapter 2 The Built Environment and Human Health(p. 23)
• Introduction(p. 23)
• The Global Impacts of the Built Environment(p. 24)
• Climate Change and Public Health(p. 25)
• Essay: Where We Heal: The Importance of Healthcare Buildings to Our Health and the Planet's(p. 27)
• Urban Planning and Public Health(p. 28)
• Sprawl and Air Quality(p. 31)
• Smart Growth and Healthy Cities(p. 32)
• Active Design(p. 33)
• Essay: Active Design: Converging Design Efforts to Promote Environmental Sustainability and Address Today's Leading Causes of Death(p. 34)
• Air Pollution(p. 36)
• Water Pollution and Scarcity(p. 38)
• Gaviotas Hospital(p. 40)
• Indoor Air Quality(p. 41)
• Conclusion-The Future(p. 41)
• Chapter 3 Environment and Medicine(p. 45)
• Introduction(p. 45)
• The State of Health in the World(p. 46)
• Environmental Health(p. 47)
• Ecological Medicine(p. 49)
• Protea Health(p. 52)
• Healthcare and the Environment(p. 54)
• Essay: Transforming Healthcare(p. 55)
• The Precautionary Principle(p. 59)
• Medicine's Role in Environmental Improvement(p. 59)
• Conclusion(p. 60)
• Chapter 4 Nature and Healing(p. 65)
• Introduction(p. 65)
• The Tradition of Nature and Healing(p. 66)
• The Therapeutic Spa Movement(p. 66)
• Nature Reconsidered(p. 67)
• Biophilia(p. 68)
• Biophilic Design Principles(p. 69)
• Urbanization and Nature(p. 70)
• Landscape Perception(p. 70)
• Healing Landscape(p. 70)
• Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Health Campus(p. 72)
• Sustainable Landscape(p. 78)
• Conclusion(p. 79)
• Part 2 Actualizing the Vision
• Chapter 5 Improving Performance(p. 83)
• Introduction(p. 83)
• Tools and Metrics(p. 84)
• Lessons Learned From Pioneers(p. 95)
• Post Occupancy Evaluation-Providence Newberg Medical Center(p. 96)
• Post Occupancy Evaluation-Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas(p. 97)
• Resource Efficiency(p. 98)
• Essay: Energy Star®: It's Not Just a Score; It's a Goal and a Strategy(p. 101)
• Legacy Salmon Creek(p. 104)
• Energy End Use Monitoring(p. 105)
• Essay: Targeting 100!(p. 105)
• The Toxic-Free Hospital(p. 119)
• Essay: The PBT-Free Challenge(p. 121)
• Tools for Designers and Specifiers to De-Select Toxicants(p. 124)
• Visualizing the Path Ahead(p. 125)
• Conclusion(p. 126)
• Case Studies
• 01 Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, TX(p. 127)
• 02 OHSU Center for Health and Healing, Portland, OR(p. 131)
• 03 Peace Island Medical Center, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA(p. 134)
• 04 Sherman Hospital, Elgin, IL(p. 137)
• 05 Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg, KS(p. 139)
• 06 Kohinoor Hospital, Mumbai, India(p. 141)
• 07 The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care, Royal United Hospital, Bath, England(p. 144)
• 08 St. Mary's Hospital Sechelt Addition, Sechelt, BC, Canada(p. 146)
• 09 New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, Stockholm County, Sweden(p. 148)
• 10 UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA(p. 151)
• 11 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA(p. 154)
• Chapter 6 Measuring Value(p. 161)
• Introduction(p. 161)
• Healthcare and the Triple Bottom Line(p. 162)
• The Economics of Sustainable Healthcare(p. 163)
• Essay: Leed Certified Hospitals: Perspectives on Capital Cost Premiums and Operational Benefits(p. 166)
• Trading Capital Cost for Operational Savings(p. 174)
• Crossing the Capital-Operations Chasm: Providence Health & Services(p. 175)
• Can Sustainable Hospitals Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?(p. 176)
• The Social Value of Sustainable Healthcare(p. 177)
• Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas Post-Occupancy Evaluation(p. 178)
• The Living Building Financial Study(p. 180)
• Conclusion(p. 183)
• Chapter 7 Lessons from Health Systems(p. 185)
• United Kingdom's National Health Service(p. 185)
• Guy's Hospital Tower, London(p. 191)
• Case Studies
• 12 Mittal Children's Medical Centre, London, United Kingdom(p. 193)
• 13 The Bluestone Unit, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon, Northern Ireland(p. 196)
• 14 New South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland(p. 199)
• System Profile: Partners Healthcare(p. 202)
• 15 The Lunder Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA(p. 209)
• 16 Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA(p. 212)
• System Profile: Providence Health & Services(p. 215)
• Providence Newberg: Five Lessons Learned(p. 217)
• 17 Providence Newberg Medical Center, Newberg, OR(p. 219)
• 18 Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA(p. 221)
• System Profile: Gundersen Health System(p. 224)
• 19 Gundersen LaCrosse Hospital Addition(p. 228)
• System Profile: Kaiser Permanente(p. 231)
• Kaiser Permanente's Journey to Sustainability(p. 234)
• 20 Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition(p. 236)
• Part 3 Sustainable Healthcare Today(p. 243)
• Chapter 8 Global Survey(p. 245)
• Case Studies
• 21 Akershus University Hospital, Loreskøg, Norway(p. 245)
• 22 Butaro Hospital, Burera District, Rwanda(p. 252)
• 23 Deventer Ziekenhuis, Deventer, The Netherlands(p. 257)
• Trias Energetica(p. 260)
• 24 First People's Hospital, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China(p. 263)
• 25 Hospital Universitario San Vincente de Paul, Rionegro, Colombia(p. 268)
• 26 Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, The Republic of Singapore(p. 272)
• 27 Portadown Health and Care Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland(p. 278)
• 28 REHAB Centre for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries, Basel, Switzerland(p. 284)
• 29 Reina Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Ensanche de Vallecas, Madrid, Spain(p. 291)
• 30 The New Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia(p. 297)
• 31 Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL(p. 304)
• 32 Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Soba (Khartoum), Sudan(p. 314)
• 33 Santa Lucia University General Hospital, Cartagena, Spain(p. 315)
• 34 St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals, London, England(p. 322)
• 35 Swedish Medical Center, Issaquah, WA(p. 329)
• Ten Lessons Learned(p. 333)
• 36 Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan (Aneurin Bevan Hospital), Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales(p. 335)
• Part 4 Visioning the Future(p. 341)
• Chapter 9 Toward a New Language of Form(p. 343)
• Introduction(p. 343)
• The Development of the Modern Hospital(p. 344)
• Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Centre(p. 348)
• Doubling Daylight(p. 351)
• Case Studies
• 37 Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherland(p. 361)
• 38 Arras Hospital Centre, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France(p. 365)
• 39 Pediatric and Cardiac Center of the Innsbruck University Clinic, Innsbruck, Austria(p. 368)
• 40 Helsingør Psychiatric Clinic, Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark(p. 371)
• 41 Rhine Ordinance Barracks Medical Center Replacement, Kaiserslautern, Germany(p. 375)
• 42 Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital, The Republic of Singapore(p. 378)
• 43 Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Emergency Department Addition, Nanaimo, BC, Canada(p. 381)
• 44 Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic, BelleVue, WA(p. 384)
• 45 Pictou Landing Mi'Kmaq Community Health Centre, Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada(p. 386)
• 46 Kenya Women's and Children's Wellness Centre, Nairobi, Kenya(p. 390)
• 47 Tata Medical Centre Cancer Hospital, Kolkata, India(p. 392)
• 48 CBF [Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes] Women's Health Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso(p. 395)
• Chapter 10 Creating the Twenty-First-Century Hospital(p. 399)
• Introduction(p. 399)
• Twenty-First-Century Healthcare(p. 401)
• Conclusion(p. 412)
• Case Studies
• 49 The Ubuntu Centre, Zwide Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa(p. 414)
• 50 Jubilee Gardens Health Centre and Library, London, England(p. 417)
• 51 Old Town Recovery Center, Portland, OR(p. 419)
• 52 Waldron Health Centre, Lewisham, South London, England(p. 422)
• 53 Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital, Mirebalais, Haiti(p. 426)
• 54 Embassy Medical Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka(p. 429)
• 55 All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children, Kiev, Ukraine(p. 432)
• Index(p. 435)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, a principal with Perkins, will in New York City, is a leader in the design of sustainable, high-performance healing environments.
Gail Vittori, Leed Fellow, co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, Texas, is a pioneer in green building protocols, policies, and prototypes.