Archive for February, 2012
Holy Cross is SoCal’s First ‘LEED Silver’ Hospital
February 27th, 2012
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center’s new four-story, 138-bed expansion was named Monday as the first LEED Silver hospital in Southern California, honored for its efforts to build an environmentally friendly project. Read the full article from SCVNews.com.
Photo by Lane Barden
Posted in Articles & Publications,Healthcare
Cal Poly Architecture: Los Angeles Metro Program 2012
February 21st, 2012
*Public lectures will be held at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Limited seating available, tickets can be purchased at http://aplusd.org/
For the full lecture series schedule, visit the LA Metro website.
Posted in Architecture Education,Speaking Engagements
Sustainability Workshops at McKinley Elementary School
February 15th, 2012
By Pablo La Roche, Director of Sustainable Design
Fueled by a Community Project grant from HMC’s Designing Futures Foundation, Eera Babtiwale, Sandy Kate, and myself kicked off the first in a series of three sustainability workshops for students at McKinley Elementary School in Santa Monica, Calif. We developed the “Sustainable Environments Seen Through the Eyes of Elementary School Children” workshops with the goal of providing students with a worldview perspective of environmental issues to give them practical suggestions on how they, as elementary school children, can build a better planet for all.
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Back from Haiti, Ready to Inspire
February 14th, 2012
By Kaysha Bucher, Interior Designer
One year ago, I submitted a proposal for HMC’s Xref travel fellowship to realize my long-awaited aspiration of making a difference. With a love for children and a dream in my heart to see schools built abroad, I took a leap of faith into an experience that has furthered my passion to see change across the world. For me, this leap started in Haiti. Now back in the states, I’m thankful and appreciative for this opportunity to travel and make a difference.
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Healthcare Design Magazine: HMC Architects-Designed Facility Reaches Completion
February 7th, 2012
The new 490,000-square-foot Kaiser Permanente Fontana Replacement Hospital in Fontana, California, is now 95% completed and is in the home stretch of exterior and interior construction. The hospital, which is scheduled to open in 2013, is being built by McCarthy Construction and is designed by HMC Architects. Read the full article from Healthcare Design magazine.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Healthcare
Workshops and Clinics: C.A.S.H. Conference 2012
February 3rd, 2012
Attending the Coalition for Adequate School Housing (C.A.S.H.) Conference this week in Sacramento? Be sure to drop in on our workshops and clinics.
No More Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Monday, February 20, 2012
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Presented by Janet Dixon, Riverside USD, and Marco Eacrett, HMC Architects
You passed the paper screening! Next step is the dreaded panel interview. A lighthearted and informative workshop on how to avoid some common landmines and get the job! This workshop will be moderated by C.A.S.H. Treasurer Janet Dixon, Director of Planning and Development, Riverside Unified School District. Janet has many years of experience interviewing school facility professionals and will give you excellent tips on how to be successful.
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Posted in Pre-K–12 Education,Speaking Engagements
For Downtown Women, a Healthy Future
February 2nd, 2012
When officials at the California Hospital Medical Center opened the $8.1 million Los Angeles Center for Women’s Health this month, a host of politicians and local business leaders turned out to celebrate a facility that aims to be the future of women’s health in Downtown. Read the full article from Los Angeles Downtown News about the Women’s Health Center.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Healthcare,Interior Architecture
Assessing Earthquake-Damaged Schools in Haiti
February 2nd, 2012
By Kaysha Bucher, Interior Designer
Part of my Xref journey and task here in Haiti is to help with the assessment of 200 Catholic schools across the country. Schools for Children of the World has hired 11 teams trained to assess existing conditions of these schools by using a special assessment program for the iPad. Over the last three days, I have been all over the Haitian countryside to accomplish the given task. Starting on Monday morning, Alex and I were assigned to visit four schools in the city of Miragoane, Haiti. The drive to Miragoane is a bumpy one and takes about two hours from Leogane.
Along with our translator and driver, we arrived at our first school site, Ecole Notre Dame de Lourdes, holding 749 students and 17 professors. The main buildings were badly damaged in the earthquake, six of which are still partially in use. The remaining classes are held in three temporary structures on the school site, totaling to nine buildings on site. The school director mentioned that if they could have more classrooms, they could enroll another 300+ children waiting to attend the school the coming year.
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Construction at UCSD to Yield Four New Structures in 2012
February 1st, 2012
Four major construction projects at the University of California, San Diego are slated for completion this year, in addition to a $2.1 million facelift of the La Jolla Playhouse grounds.
Phase II of the Rady School of Management should be finished in April. The $47.2 million, 80,000 square-foot project was funded through $27.1 in state funds and private gifts from Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation, Wells Fargo bank and other sources. Read the entire article from La Jolla Light.
Posted in Articles & Publications,Higher Education
