The Role of Buildings and Sites in Promoting Physical Activity

The Role of Buildings and Sites in Promoting Physical Activity summarizes the growing crisis in public health due to an overweight population, and suggests ways to promote physical activity through architectural modification.

Walking on Campus: Correlates and Web Tools

Walking on Campus: Correlates and Web Tools explores environmental predictors of walking on campuses, producing self-report tools and environmental audit instruments and conducts case studies of campuses. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and US Centers for Disease Control.

Simulation in Healthcare Design

Simulation in Healthcare Design is based on a 2007 PowerPoint presentation, and summarizes developments in Building Performance Simulation, Discrete Event Simulation, and Agent Based Simulation, and their applications in healthcare settings.

The State of Evidence Based Design

The State of Evidence Based Design summarized current research and teaching on EBD at Georgia Tech through 2008, highlighting several student projects.

Supporting the Redevelopment of Healthcare in the Wake of Katrina

Supporting the Redevelopment of Healthcare in the Wake of Katrina by Godfried Augenbroe, Sonit Bafna, Ruchi Choudhary. Presented to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. April 15-December 15, 2006. This project supported LSU Healthcare in redeveloping Charity and University Hospitals and clinics in New Orleans.

Healthcare Environments Baseline Assessment for Safety & Quality

Healthcare Environments Baseline Assessment for Safety & Quality explores links between design and outcomes in the existing four National Capital Region (NCR) military treatment facilities (Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center - Bethesda, Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews AFB and Fort Belvoir’s DeWitt Army Community Hospital) and up to three non-military hospitals, including Dublin Methodist Hospital in Ohio.

Pathways to a Military Health System Innovation Program

Pathways to a Military Health System Innovation Program is a project to make recommendations related to the feasibility of standing-up an MHS innovation center. In the course of the research and briefings to TMA management, the request was made to alter the task scope to a more expansive view of an innovation program inclusive of a network of potential strategic partners. Therefore, the report encompasses a review of programs internal and external to the MHS, lessons learned, partnership opportunities and overarching recommendations for creating an MHS Innovation Program.

Innovation Programs to Support High Performance Healthcare Facilities

Innovation Programs to Support High Performance Healthcare Facilities (2010) provides an overview of innovation programs operated by public and private healthcare organizations that are focused on enhancing the environment of care.

Measures that Matter: Lighting in Healthcare

Measures that Matter: Lighting in Healthcare (.jpg file) is a poster presentation for a research project studying the affects of lighting on healthcare outcomes in long term acute care units.

Soundscape And Noise

Soundscape Evaluations is a study conducted for the Military Health Service to study the effects of sound on healthcare outcomes. The comparative results from the baseline and follow-up studies inform design guidance and future research.

Merging Architecture, Engineering & Medicine to Design Healthy Hospital Soundscapes 2011, by Erica E. Ryherd, Craig Zimring, and Jeremy Ackerman.

Healthcare Design for China

Cultural Aspects of Evidence-Based Design: Research and Design for Chinese Hospitals by Craig Zimring, Hui Cai, Wenli Wang, Melanie Redman, and Peter Trice, was presented at the Healthcare Design Conference 2011.

Sustainable Healthcare Design

Sustainable Resilient Flooring Choices for Hospitals: Perceptions and Experiences of Users, Specifiers and Installers 2011, by Jennifer DuBose and Amaya Labrador.

Measuring the Sustainability of Health Care Buildings 2011, by Jennifer DuBose. Delivered to the First Annual Research Exchange on Advancing Patient, Worker and Environmental Safety and Sustainability in the Health Care Sector, Phoenix Arizona.