The necessity for providers from all health professions to work together in coordinated care teams has become a critical c...
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In the not-so-distant past, human capital was defined in limited, objective terms. The benefits in terms of effectiveness,...
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Increasingly, leadership in higher education and industry are working closely together to focus on better preparing studen...
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In March 2016, SmithGroupJJR convened in San Francisco, California to host an Advisory Board discussion in conjunction wit...
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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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We expect change. We welcome innovation. But in today’s business world, disruption has become the new norm. Disrupti...
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The Laboratory of the Half Century (aka LAB2050) is an initiative SmithGroupJJR embarked on to dig deep into the scie...
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The forensic field is attracting new graduates from forensic science education programs every year and the number of indiv...
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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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The Center for the Intrepid, the world’s most advanced center for rehabilitation, research, education, and training,...
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Rapidly changing diagnostic & treatment modalities—predicated on emerging technology, an increasingly chronic pa...
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SmithGroupJJR specializes in the planning and design of a variety of science facilities, from life sciences to material...
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The Continuing Care Retirement Community has long been the preeminent model of senior care in the United States. Its domin...
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Biophilic design is based on the theory of ‘biophilia,’ defined by Edward O. Wilson as “the innately emo...
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Every city tells a story through its urban landscape: its street life, retail, transit offerings, art and architecture. In...
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Recognizing the critical role that public/private partnership (P3) will play in the sustainable growth and success of our ...
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Coastal environments can be relentlessly unforgiving when it comes to winds, waves, erosion and flooding. The best waterfr...
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Academic medical centers are meeting the demand for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration by employing strategies to cr...
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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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Redevelopment of existing real estate assets, often in premier locations, offer developers many opportunities to increa...
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The experiences of the companies earning LEED-CI (and of their architecture/engineering firms) do more than show the va...
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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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Research continues to illuminate the role of dentistry in a comprehensive, holistic approach to health care. In turn, dent...
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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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The continuum of care is critical in rehabilitation. Recovery after a catastrophic injury or illness does not end when ...
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There has been much speculation about what the academic scientific workplace of the future will look like. As young scient...
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Over the past decade employers and educators have placed increasing importance on the mastery of competencies beyond those...
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SmithGroupJJR annually brings together a Workplace Advisory Board comprised of corporate real estate executives, workplace...
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The need for energy efficient lighting has become mainstream. Momentum is growing at the consumer level for light sourc...
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As the demands of a growing population continue to impact the environment, today’s generation is responsible to rese...
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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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When designing speculative office buildings, and campus buildings for end-users, there often exists an element of myste...
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The forensic field is attracting new graduates from forensic science education programs every year and the number of indiv...
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Laboratory space design represents a highly specialized challenge for facility owners, architects, and engineers. It requi...
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Forensic science facilities have experienced an influx of operational and design changes due to advancements in technology...
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Research parks are a key component of today’s knowledge economy. Initially conceived in the 1950s as real estate dev...
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An emerging design paradigm is having a major impact on the world of university campus planning and design-fusion faciliti...
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Long span structures can create expansive views, future flexibility in a range of building types.
Quite often when some...
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We are used to thinking of infrastructure as built public works systems, such as roads, sewers, and utilities. “Gree...
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Green is good-including in the workplace. While green is good for obvious environmental reasons, sustainable design is als...
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SmithGroupJJR is encouraged by the increasing trend toward transparency in the building products industry. For the l...
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U.S. institutions of higher learning are confronting a dramatically altered economic landscape. Over the past 30 years, th...
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Over the past decade, SmithGroupJJR has planned, designed and engineered 13 engineering facilities for clients like the Un...
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As higher education confronts unprecedented change, campus planners are taking on the critical role of synthesizing an ins...
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The necessity for providers from all health professions to work together in coordinated care teams has become a critical c...
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Increasingly, leadership in higher education and industry are working closely together to focus on better preparing studen...
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SmithGroupJJR's landscape architects and environmental scientists were tasked with developing a new metric for site su...
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The Laboratory of the Half Century (aka LAB2050) is an initiative SmithGroupJJR embarked on to dig deep into the scie...
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The collapse of the United States housing market in 2007-08 precipitated a nearly commensurate downturn in new nonresident...
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Maximize our site’s capacity. Lower our energy costs. Provide the community with a positive environmental impa...
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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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As planning and design professionals deeply involved in higher education, SmithGroupJJR is keenly aware of the profound...
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As the days go by, the global movement towards transparency gains steady momentum. In the design and construction world, t...
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SmithGroupJJR is working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) on a new facility, the Brock Environmental Center in Vir...
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With programs like the 2030 Commitment, designers are pursuing incrementally stringent energy reduction targets following ...
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Healthcare is in a period of great change and innovation abounds in ways never imagined. Healthcare reform is unfolding...
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What if, every time you had to build a hospital, ambulatory care center or medical office building (MOB), you didn'...
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Landscape is often viewed as the warm and fuzzy side of sustainable design. While nearly everyone agrees that enhancing a ...
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Solar power is now cost competitive with fossil fuel energy and gaining widespread adoption. But can architects imple...
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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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Healthcare planners and designers are trained to solve problems: we seek the opportunities and challenges of any given cli...
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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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When it comes to renovating historic architecture, sensitivity to the original architect’s intent for each space and...
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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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As architects and engineers, we have an opportunity to design recreation facilities that promote awareness about sustainab...
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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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Borrowing a page from a playbook more familiar to real estate turnaround experts, a number of research-based institutions ...
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The research environment is progressing. Growing industry workforce, evolving demographics and the teetering economy are t...
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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 has proven to be an effective teaching method, and one well suited to inter-professional education. Stude...
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The American Society of Civil Engineers' Manuals of Practice series represents a commitment by ASCE to provide frontli...
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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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Few will disagree that this is an exciting time for sustainable design. Significant trends emerging include the push towar...
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Reconstruction and modernization of older and often historically significant buildings present many opportunities-and like...
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The Center for the Intrepid, the world’s most advanced center for rehabilitation, research, education, and training,...
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Many factors contribute to the ever-changing workplace—technological advancements, economic and societal influences,...
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In March 2016, SmithGroupJJR convened in San Francisco, California to host an Advisory Board discussion in conjunction wit...
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As healthcare reform legislation extends medical insurance coverage to more Americans, the nation's healthcare syst...
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True sustainability must include the trifecta of environmental stewardship, economic prosperity and social responsibility....
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In the not-so-distant past, human capital was defined in limited, objective terms. The benefits in terms of effectiveness,...
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Organizations move with a speed and agility that was unimaginable even a decade ago. It took appliance manufacturers 50 ye...
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We expect change. We welcome innovation. But in today’s business world, disruption has become the new norm. Disrupti...
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It can be very challenging for a non-architect to be able to understand a space in two dimensional plans. In addition to w...
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The information technology arena is at a crossroads. While technologies can make the world a more efficient place, the fac...
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As workplace designers, we often ponder the connection between workspace and the culture of an organization. Does the envi...
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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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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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