Healthcare Design in a Post-COVID World
Where is healthcare design headed in a post-COVID world? Derek Veilleux, Director of SMRT’s Health and Wellness Practice, shared his thoughts with BD+C Magazine. Some of the highlights include maintaining the human touch aspect of healthcare, the need for speed in healthcare design through alternative delivery methods such as IPD and incorporating prefab and modular…
Hospice Project Featured in Maine Home + Design
Hospice of Southern Maine’s CEO Daryl Cady couldn’t have said it better, “As a health care and business leader in our community, we believe caring for the health of people and the environment go hand in hand.” Bringing those same values to the design of their new building, SMRT is thrilled this new facility allows…
Day One Energy Analysis: How Early, Data-Driven Decisions Deliver Sustainable Buildings and a Lifetime of Cost Savings
Performance-based energy analysis produces valuable metrics that can influence design decisions early in the project, when design changes are easier and less costly to incorporate
Video Interview- Increasing Safety in Medical Office Buildings
Using Data Tools to Catalog, Classify, and Evaluate Facility Risk
John Tobin, AIA has been examining the important ways data analysis can help clients prioritize and make critical facilities decisions for years. Much of the focus on data tools in the A/E/C industry relates to the design and planning process, but there are many other important ways in which data analysis can help us to…
7 Considerations for Planning Outpatient Facilities in a Post-COVID Care Environment
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When Abbott Had to Ramp Up COVID-19 Tests, This Contractor Had to Do the ‘Impossible’
The global need to ramp up production of COVID-19 test kits is unprecedented, requiring the delivery of complex manufacturing facilities in record time. When Abbott Laboratories reached out to their long-time contractor, Landry/French Construction Company to fit out a building, Kevin French called SMRT. His request: design and engineer a new facility in a retrofitted…
Adapting Medical Office Buildings to Increase Patient Safety and Confidence
One of the less visible, but daunting challenges to healthcare delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic: how to engender confidence and a sense of safety in patients and staff, so that people continue to receive both preventative care and non-Covid related treatments. Some studies have shown that about 1/3 of Americans are delaying healthcare during the…
Design of the Times – SMRT in Mainebiz
Ellen Belknap, President, and Jeana Stewart, Workplace Studio Leader, spoke to Mainebiz about how SMRT has transitioned to fully-remote operations in the face of the coronavirus and how workplace design may be affected in the near future. “I can see how this is really going to create less travel, and people are going to be…
Architects and Engineers Look to Embrace New Technology
Mainebiz interviewed 20 business leaders about their outlook on the coming year. Ellen Belknap, our President, spoke about Maine’s strong position for green technologies, particularly cross laminated timber, as the whole architecture / engineering / construction industry works to reduce carbon emissions.