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Design team talk about Haiti hospital project challenges

Healthcare Design's 'Take Five' series asks healthcare design professionals about what's got their attention

By Healthcare Facilities Today


 

Healthcare Design magazine's "Take Five" series asks healthcare design professionals about what’s got their attention. The magazine recently talked to the Copley Wolff Design Group of Boston. Brett Oliver, landscape architect, and Marcus Cantu, landscape designer talked about on their experience constructing the landscape for the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in Haiti.

The factors involved in the project included:

1. Using landscape features to reduce air-borne disease

2. Importance of outdoor spaces

3. Need for adaptability

4. Thinking about sustainability in more ways than one

5. Maintaining budgets calls for creative problem solving

According to the article, the construction of HUM was funded through the donations of supporters and had a rigid budget.

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November 12, 2013


Topic Area: Architecture


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