Total Construction Spending Expected to Keep Falling in 2010
Medical Construction & Design Magazine
Because of a collapse in nonresidential construction and despite an expected recovery of residential building in the second half of 2009, total construction spending on an annual basis is expected to fall 12 percent this year and four percent in 2010, according to the Third Quarter U.S. Construction Briefing by IHS Global Insight's Construction Service.More

EPA Tightens Air Emissions for Hospital, Medical and Infectious Waste Incinerators
Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
EPA is setting new limits that will affect most existing hospital, medical and infectious waste incinerators. This final action will reduce about 390,000 pounds of several pollutants each year including acid gases, nitrogen oxides and metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury. EPA is also finalizing additional testing, monitoring and inspection requirements.More

Ohio State Trustees Affirm $1 Billion ProjectONE Medical Center Plan
Medical Construction & Design Magazine
Architecture and construction plans for ProjectONE, an expansion project for The Ohio State University that will significantly advance the Medical Center's education and research programs and improve patient care, were approved on Sept. 18 by The Ohio State University Board of Trustees.More

Naturally Transparent
Health Facilities Management Magazine
When Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center enlisted NBBJ to design their new, fully integrated orthopedic institute, they challenged the project team to design a facility that could support a new way of delivering orthopedic care—one based on transparency, significantly more daylight and a streamlined patient experience.More

Dedication of N.C. Cancer Hospital Highlights New Face of Cancer Care
Medical Construction & Design Magazine
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, UNC President Erskine Bowles, and other dignitaries welcomed a crowd of more than 500 today to the dedication of the $180 million, 315,000 square foot N.C. Cancer Hospital.More

Women & Infants Opens 140,000-Square Foot South Pavilion Featuring Nation's Largest Single-Family Room NICU
Care New England
Five years after beginning the approval and construction process, officials at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has cut the ribbon on the five-story, state-of-the-art South Pavilion. Designed to help the hospital keep pace with an increased demand for its specialty services, the South Pavilion boasts the largest single-family room neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the nation, with 70 rooms that give each family private space.More

New Hospital Construction Under Way
The Madison County Herald
City and medical officials in Canton broke ground Thursday on the construction site for a new 113,000-square-foot hospital. A 30-acre tract on Canton's Nissan Parkway just off I-55 will be the new home for Madison County Medical Center, currently operating on East Peace Street in Canton, Miss.More

A Pathfinder to Health
Project Data File
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland explains why the new 300-bed hospital at Enniskillen will be so important for the people it will serve.More

Aurora Engineering Completes Work on Flying Hospital
WWJ
Clarkston-based Aurora Engineering said last week that it had just completed the first phase of the Global Flying Hospital in collaboration with Siemens Medical and Steris Medical. AE has taken a 747-200 and transformed it into a high tech flying hospital.More

Kaiser Permanente Opens New Hospital in Downey, Calif.
Medical Construction & Design Magazine
Kaiser Permanente has opened a new state-of-the-art 352-bed hospital in Downey, Calif., which will provide high-quality, personal and affordable health care in Southeast Los Angeles County for many years into the future. The $390 million Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center is located near the northwest corner of the intersection of Imperial Highway and Bellflower Boulevard, situated close to Kaiser Permanente’s outpatient Garden and Orchard Medical Office Buildings.More

Delay in Hospital Construction Upsets Commissioners
The Martinsburg Journal
Morgan County commissioners are eager for plans to move forward on a new hospital facility, and they said they are concerned about a delay in the certification process. Before War Memorial Hospital and Winchester-based Valley Health can continue with construction of a modern hospital, they need to receive a Certificate of Need by the State Health Care Authority. More

St. Francis Plans $110M Expansion
The Ledger-Enquirer
St. Francis Hospital has plans for a $110 million expansion of its Manchester Expressway facilities. Hospital officials are expected to announce today they have filed a Certificate of Need with the state of Georgia so the nearly 60-year-old Columbus hospital can undergo extensive renovations and construction.More