Innovations can improve healthcare spaces and reduce infections with benefits for patients, caregivers and healthcare organizations
Original Post: August 9, 2022 It’s been my pleasure to work with Avidicare, Infection Prevention Partners and collaborators developing solutions to reduce infections in healthcare environments. Innovation can be difficult, and in this case the solution is proven in Europe. USA is now catching up to current ultraclean technology to Read more…
SwiftEnvirons grew from the belief that every project—whether at the molecular scale or the scale of a building, a community, or the planet—requires swift, interdisciplinary understanding of the forces that surround it. Elemental and Interconnected That belief shapes everything we do. We move between disciplines — sustainability, environmental science, architecture, healthcare Read more…
SwiftEnvirons is an AIA Continuing Education Provider – focused on the issues that impact people and the Earth.
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”.
A time for reflection on 2024 and focus on building 2025 Like every snowflake, every year is a unique, beautiful point in time. Celebrate 2024 and prepare for 2025
“I won’t retire but I might retread” – Falling from Above, Neil Young In 2021, Joel retired from almost three decades of public service in California, notably with the University of California and County of Placer. This afforded Joel the opportunity to help Susan set up SwiftEnvirons in Sun Valley, Read more…
People have asked “what have you been doing for the past three years since retiring?” True, Joel retired from public service after 29+ years at the University of California and County of Placer, California. But, as Neil Young sang, Joel says “I won’t retire, but I might retread”. That retread Read more…
This image captures client satisfaction wih the Project Chair Dr. Diana L. Farmer, M.D. Chair of the UC Davis Department of Surgery. She is testing the public space at the Children’s Surgery Center at the UC Davis Children’s Hospital on the Sacramento Campus. The broader picture is one of the Read more…
A little background. In my history at the University of California, Davis – Healthcare, I had the rare opportunity to lead not only planning, design, construction and operations of multibillion dollar programs. My role also included the highest level of QA of the AHJ and Fire Marshall for critical care, Read more…
Much gratitude for many partners and colleagues. The collaborations are fruitful in so many aspects. “Design och funktion är viktigt för oss!” – Mari Regner, Avidicare “Design and function are important for us” I am even learning a little Swedish! Some Highlights from 2023 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM): Read more…