Architecture and Design
Continuing Education from SwiftEnvirons LLC
SwiftEnvirons is an AIA Continuing Education Provider – focused on the issues that impact people and the Earth.
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About SwiftEnvirons LLC – What’s in a name?
Welcome to SwiftEnvirons LLC. We partner with select clients to provide design and planning services across sustainability, environmental projects, academic research, healthcare innovation, campus planning, and public-private initiatives. SwiftEnvirons grew from the belief that every project—whether at the molecular scale Read more…
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Sports Medicine at UC Davis
A return to the home field My visit to the UC Davis Edwards Family Athletic Center (EFAC) and the UCD Health clinic became an unexpected homecoming—professionally and personally. But first a little about this striking facility. I had the chance Read more…
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Visiting the Latest Labs: UC Merced
In September 2025, we visited University of California, Merced for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Shared Resource Laboratory project. Between tours of the campus and research facilities, our team (Uta Grieshammer, Susan Swift, Dan Eriksson) kicked off this Read more…
Research, Collaboration and Innovation
Reporting on My Procedure Inside and Out
I’ve visited hundreds of healthcare facilities over the years, as architect, owner’s representative, facility operator and product representative. But a visit to the University of California Irvine (UCI) as a patient provided a unique and humbling hands-on “Patient Experience”.
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Lab Construction Continues On Pace
History Repeats Image above: Beckman Institute, City of Hope, Duarte California. When the NIH rejected a grant for synthetic insulin in the 1970s, researchers led by Arthur Riggs proceeded without federal funding. The rest is history. And history repeats itself. Read more…
Research, Collaboration and Innovation
Bakar Bioenginuity Hub
UC Berkeley’s Premier Innovation Lab Shines Thank you to Gino Segre for a follow up visit to the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub at the University of California Berkeley. We are forever intrigued by the success of the best and brightest as Read more…
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Science and Technology on Display
Aggie Square Now Open Much has been posted about the opening of Aggie Square. It’s just started, and with much promise of collaboration and innovation in biomedical research, the potential is phenomenal. After a decade of planning, design, development and Read more…
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Aggie Square: Background
A Decade in the Making The project started in earnest over a decade ago with a vision. Mark Romney, with his experience with AURP, was instrumental in championing revisioning a planned academic research zone at the Med Center in Sacramento. Read more…
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The Wexford ConnectLab at Aggie Square
After over a decade of visioning, leadership and delivery, Sacramento’s Innovation District is on the horizon. The SwiftEnvirons team is grateful for a visit to the Aggie Square project. Thanks to Claire Drummond of Wexford Science and Technology hosted our Read more…
Research, Collaboration and Innovation
City of Hope Shared Resource Laboratory
Our Journey takes us to the City of Hope main campus in Duarte, California. City of Hope Supporting shared resource laboratory development through a CIRM grant The City of Hope Campus Shared Research Facilities City of Hope provides state-of-the-art equipment Read more…