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Interprofessional Education: Beyond the Classroom
Interprofessional Education: Beyond the Classroom
The necessity for providers from all health professions to work together in coordinated care teams has become a critical c...
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The Rise of Human Capital and Engagement
The Rise of Human Capital and Engagement
In the not-so-distant past, human capital was defined in limited, objective terms. The benefits in terms of effectiveness,...
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Interprofessional Innovations in Allied Health
Interprofessional Innovations in Allied Health
Increasingly, leadership in higher education and industry are working closely together to focus on better preparing studen...
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The Evolution of the Engineering Building
The Evolution of the Engineering Building
In March 2016, SmithGroupJJR convened in San Francisco, California to host an Advisory Board discussion in conjunction wit...
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Defining the New Mixed-Use
Defining the New Mixed-Use
Once viewed as an optional typology, mixed-use has become a development mainstay but needs to be considered through a diff...
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Thriving in a Disruptive World
Thriving in a Disruptive World
We expect change. We welcome innovation. But in today’s business world, disruption has become the new norm. Disrupti...
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LAB2050: Laboratory of the Half Century
LAB2050: Laboratory of the Half Century
The Laboratory of the Half Century (aka Lab2050) is an initiative SmithGroupJJR embarked on to dig deep into the scientifi...
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Forensic Graduates Require Hard Science, Soft Skills
Forensic Graduates Require Hard Science, Soft Skills
The forensic field is attracting new graduates from forensic science education programs every year and the number of indiv...
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Preparing for an Era of Talent Scarcity: The Evaporating Technology and Research Talent Pool
Preparing for an Era of Talent Scarcity: The Evaporating Technology and Research Talent Pool
By 2050, the global population is expected to soar by 30 percent. As our world grows, it’s also aging: one in six pe...
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A New Class of Patients
A New Class of Patients
Rapidly changing diagnostic & treatment modalities—predicated on emerging technology, an increasingly chronic pa...
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Advanced Science & Technologies
Advanced Science & Technologies
SmithGroupJJR specializes in the planning and design of a variety of science facilities, from life sciences to material...
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American Senior Living Models in China
American Senior Living Models in China
The Continuing Care Retirement Community has long been the preeminent model of senior care in the United States. Its domin...
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An Immersion in Biophilic Design
An Immersion in Biophilic Design
Biophilic design is based on the theory of ‘biophilia,’ defined by Edward O. Wilson as “the innately emo...
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Asset Repositioning
Asset Repositioning
Every city tells a story through its urban landscape: its street life, retail, transit offerings, art and architecture. In...
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Beyond TIF
Beyond TIF
Recognizing the critical role that public/private partnership (P3) will play in the sustainable growth and success of our ...
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Coastal Modeling
Coastal Modeling
Coastal environments can be relentlessly unforgiving when it comes to winds, waves, erosion and flooding. The best waterfr...
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Creating AMC Linkages
Creating AMC Linkages
Academic medical centers are meeting the demand for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration by employing strategies to...
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Creating Buy-In Before the Move
Creating Buy-In Before the Move
Picture this. Your organization is nearing a real estate transition. A move to a new or renovated location, perhaps a majo...
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Creating Modern Curb Appeal
Creating Modern Curb Appeal
Redevelopment of existing real estate assets, often in premier locations, offer developers many opportunities to increa...
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Debunking the Myths of LEED-CI
Debunking the Myths of LEED-CI
The experiences of the companies earning LEED-CI (and of their architecture/engineering firms) do more than show the va...
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Defining the New Mixed-Use
Defining the New Mixed-Use
Once viewed as an optional typology, mixed-use has become a development mainstay but needs to be considered through a diff...
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Dental Education
Dental Education
Research continues to illuminate the role of dentistry in a comprehensive, holistic approach to health care. In turn, dent...
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Design Build
Design Build
As early as 700BC with Code of Hammurabi, can one find reference to the principles of Design Build; a delivery methodology...
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Designing for the Continuum of Care in Rehabilitation
Designing for the Continuum of Care in Rehabilitation
The continuum of care is critical in rehabilitation. Recovery after a catastrophic injury or illness does not end when ...
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Designing for the Next Generation of Scientists
Designing for the Next Generation of Scientists
There has been much speculation about what the academic scientific workplace of the future will look like. As young scient...
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Designing for the T-Shaped Student
Designing for the T-Shaped Student
Over the past decade employers and educators have placed increasing importance on the mastery of competencies beyond those...
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Driven by Mobility: The New Workplace Environment
Driven by Mobility: The New Workplace Environment
SmithGroupJJR annually brings together a Workplace Advisory Board comprised of corporate real estate executives, workplace...
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Energy Efficient Lighting
Energy Efficient Lighting
The need for energy efficient lighting has become mainstream. Momentum is growing at the consumer level for light sourc...
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Energy Laboratory Design
Energy Laboratory Design
As the demands of a growing population continue to impact the environment, today’s generation is responsible to rese...
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Exploring the ADA’s Influence on Design
Exploring the ADA’s Influence on Design
2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Since the act was first signed into law, what prog...
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Flexible Office Buildings
Flexible Office Buildings
When designing speculative office buildings, and campus buildings for end-users, there often exists an element of myste...
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Forensic Graduates Require Hard Science, Soft Skills
Forensic Graduates Require Hard Science, Soft Skills
The forensic field is attracting new graduates from forensic science education programs every year and the number of indiv...
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Forensic Medicine
Forensic Medicine
Laboratory space design represents a highly specialized challenge for facility owners, architects, and engineers. It requi...
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Forensic Science Facilities
Forensic Science Facilities
Forensic science facilities have experienced an influx of operational and design changes due to advancements in technology...
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From Research Park to Innovation Community
From Research Park to Innovation Community
Research parks are a key component of today’s knowledge economy. Initially conceived in the 1950s as real estate dev...
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Fusion Facilities
Fusion Facilities
An emerging design paradigm is having a major impact on the world of university campus planning and design-fusion faciliti...
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Go Long
Go Long
Long span structures can create expansive views, future flexibility in a range of building types.
Quite often when some...
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Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure
We are used to thinking of infrastructure as built public works systems, such as roads, sewers, and utilities. “Gree...
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Green Workplace Interiors
Green Workplace Interiors
Green is good-including in the workplace. While green is good for obvious environmental reasons, sustainable design is als...
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Health Product Declaration: a building product 'nutrition label'
Health Product Declaration: a building product 'nutrition label'
SmithGroupJJR is encouraged by the increasing trend toward transparency in the building products industry. For the l...
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Higher Education in the New Financial Order
Higher Education in the New Financial Order
U.S. institutions of higher learning are confronting a dramatically altered economic landscape. Over the past 30 years, th...
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Higher Education's Top Engineering Facility Design Trends
Higher Education's Top Engineering Facility Design Trends
Over the past decade, SmithGroupJJR has planned, designed and engineered 13 engineering facilities for clients like the Un...
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Integrated Campus Planning
Integrated Campus Planning
As higher education confronts unprecedented change, campus planners are taking on the critical role of synthesizing an ins...
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Interprofessional Education: Beyond the Classroom
Interprofessional Education: Beyond the Classroom
The necessity for providers from all health professions to work together in coordinated care teams has become a critical c...
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Interprofessional Innovations in Allied Health
Interprofessional Innovations in Allied Health
Increasingly, leadership in higher education and industry are working closely together to focus on better preparing studen...
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Know Your WaterScore
Know Your WaterScore
SmithGroupJJR's landscape architects and environmental scientists were tasked with developing a new metric for site su...
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LAB2050: Laboratory of the Half Century
LAB2050: Laboratory of the Half Century
The Laboratory of the Half Century (aka Lab2050) is an initiative SmithGroupJJR embarked on to dig deep into the scientifi...
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Laboratory Renovations
Laboratory Renovations
The collapse of the United States housing market in 2007-08 precipitated a nearly commensurate downturn in new nonresident...
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Landscape over Structure
Landscape over Structure
Maximize our site’s capacity. Lower our energy costs. Provide the community with a positive environmental impa...
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Law Libraries & Legal Education
Law Libraries & Legal Education
In the course of its work on multiple law school projects in the past few years, the SmithGroupJJR design team has come to...
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Learning in Place
Learning in Place
As planning and design professionals deeply involved in higher education, SmithGroupJJR is keenly aware of the profound...
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Material Transparency, part one
Material Transparency, part one
As the days go by, the global movement towards transparency gains steady momentum. In the design and construction world, t...
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Material Transparency, part two
Material Transparency, part two
SmithGroupJJR is working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) on a new facility, the Brock Environmental Center in Vir...
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Net-Zero Energy
Net-Zero Energy
With programs like the 2030 Commitment, designers are pursuing incrementally stringent energy reduction targets following ...
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Nursing Education
Nursing Education
Healthcare is in a period of great change and innovation abounds in ways never imagined. Healthcare reform is unfolding...
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Optimizing Healthcare with Templating
Optimizing Healthcare with Templating
What if, every time you had to build a hospital, ambulatory care center or medical office building (MOB), you didn'...
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Performance Metrics for Sustainable Landscapes
Performance Metrics for Sustainable Landscapes
Landscape is often viewed as the warm and fuzzy side of sustainable design. While nearly everyone agrees that enhancing a ...
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Photovoltaics – No longer the Ugly Ducklings of Design
Photovoltaics – No longer the Ugly Ducklings of Design
Solar power is now cost competitive with fossil fuel energy and gaining widespread adoption. But can architects imple...
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Planning for Urban Universities and Colleges
Planning for Urban Universities and Colleges
More than half of all colleges and universities in the United States are located in urban centers and their immediate surr...
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Planning in a Time of Uncertainty
Planning in a Time of Uncertainty
Healthcare planners and designers are trained to solve problems: we seek the opportunities and challenges of any given cli...
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Preparing for an Era of Talent Scarcity: The Evaporating Technology and Research Talent Pool
Preparing for an Era of Talent Scarcity: The Evaporating Technology and Research Talent Pool
By 2050, the global population is expected to soar by 30 percent. As our world grows, it’s also aging: one in six pe...
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Re-Lighting of Historic Architecture
Re-Lighting of Historic Architecture
When it comes to renovating historic architecture, sensitivity to the original architect’s intent for each space and...
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Re-Thinking the Office: Lessons Learned in Office Design
Re-Thinking the Office: Lessons Learned in Office Design
One thing we can all agree on is that the workplace—and work for that matter—continue to evolve at a very rapi...
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Recreation-Sustainability
Recreation-Sustainability
As architects and engineers, we have an opportunity to design recreation facilities that promote awareness about sustainab...
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Relational Sustainability: Environments for Long-term Critical Care Patients
Relational Sustainability: Environments for Long-term Critical Care Patients
In recent years, a new type of critical care patient has emerged who requires both intense care and long-term care in the ...
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Remaking the Engineering Building: Strategies for Success
Remaking the Engineering Building: Strategies for Success
Borrowing a page from a playbook more familiar to real estate turnaround experts, a number of research-based institutions ...
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Research Environment of the Future
Research Environment of the Future
The research environment is progressing. Growing industry workforce, evolving demographics and the teetering economy are t...
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Safer labs, greener labs: Ventilation strategies
Safer labs, greener labs: Ventilation strategies
Today, there are a few givens that challenge design teams and owners striving to create state-of-the-art laboratory fac...
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Simulation Design
Simulation Design
Simulation has proven to be an effective teaching method, and one well suited to inter-professional education. Stude...
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Small Craft Harbor Planning and Design
Small Craft Harbor Planning and Design
The American Society of Civil Engineers' Manuals of Practice series represents a commitment by ASCE to provide frontli...
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Student Life
Student Life
When designing centers for student use, it is no longer enough to include a food court and a computer lab. Today's ...
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Sustainability: Looking Forward
Sustainability: Looking Forward
Few will disagree that this is an exciting time for sustainable design. Significant trends emerging include the push towar...
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Sustainable, Secure Reconstruction
Sustainable, Secure Reconstruction
Reconstruction and modernization of older and often historically significant buildings present many opportunities-and like...
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The Changing Workplace: What's Your Strategy?
The Changing Workplace: What's Your Strategy?
Many factors contribute to the ever-changing workplace—technological advancements, economic and societal influences,...
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The Evolution of the Engineering Building
The Evolution of the Engineering Building
In March 2016, SmithGroupJJR convened in San Francisco, California to host an Advisory Board discussion in conjunction wit...
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The Facility Response to Health Reform
The Facility Response to Health Reform
As healthcare reform legislation extends medical insurance coverage to more Americans, the nation's healthcare syst...
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The JUST label: Adding social justice to the transparency movement
The JUST label: Adding social justice to the transparency movement
True sustainability must include the trifecta of environmental stewardship, economic prosperity and social responsibility....
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The Rise of Human Capital and Engagement
The Rise of Human Capital and Engagement
In the not-so-distant past, human capital was defined in limited, objective terms. The benefits in terms of effectiveness,...
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Thriving in a Disruptive World
Thriving in a Disruptive World
We expect change. We welcome innovation. But in today’s business world, disruption has become the new norm. Disrupti...
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Waste Heat Recovery in Data Centers
Waste Heat Recovery in Data Centers
The information technology arena is at a crossroads. While technologies can make the world a more efficient place, the fac...
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Workplace Culture: Is it all Hype?
Workplace Culture: Is it all Hype?
As workplace designers, we often ponder the connection between workspace and the culture of an organization. Does the envi...
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Workplace of the Future
Workplace of the Future
One of the biggest drivers of the future of work is technology. Rapid advances have changed the nature or work, allowing t...
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Workplace Trends
Workplace Trends
Many factors are changing the nature of work, and work behaviors. No longer is the office the only place where work gets d...
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