What patients want from healthcare facilities

This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders about:

• The award-winning Central Station Memphis hotel reconstruction project
• How Autodesk plans to bring generative design and AI to the AEC masses

BD+C's David Barista sits down with Vikram Dutt, Associate Vice President, Building Design Strategy and Marketing, with Autodesk, to discuss the tech giant's recent acquisition of AI and generative design platform provider Spacemaker.

Dutt talks about common applications for generative design in today's market, and hints at future applications for this technology.

Central Station Memphis is a new hotel formed from the bones of the historic train station in the Home of the Blues. BD+C's Rob Cassidy chats with the developer, McLean Wilson; the design firms, LRK and Bounds & Gillespie Architects; and the general contractor, Robins & Morton, about the reconstruction, which won Bronze honors in Building Design+Construction's 37th Annual "Reconstruction Awards" in 2020.

This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from BK Facility Consulting, cove.tool, and HMC Architects about:

• What two healthcare designers learned about the shortcomings—and happy surprises—of healthcare facilities in which they found themselves as patients.
• How AEC firms can use machine learning to optimize design, cost, and sustainability, and prioritize efficiency protocols.

BD+C Senior Editor John Caulfield interviews Sandeep Ahuja, a sustainability expert and co-founder of Atlanta-based startup cove.tool, a machine-learning enabled app that helps AEC firms optimize design, cost, and sustainability, and prioritize efficiency protocols.

Sandeep discusses the tool's benefits, as well as a new report on AEC Trends that her company just released.

Pam Maynard, a Design Principal with HMC Architects, and Bruce Knepper, a healthcare architect and President of BK Facility Consulting, discuss the shortcomings—and happy surprises—of the healthcare facilities in which they found themselves as patients.

They talk about these experiences - and their advice for other healthcare designers—with Rob Cassidy, Executive Editor, Building Design+Construction.

This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from JLL and Landini Associates about:

• What patients want from healthcare facilities, based on JLL's recent survey of 4,015 patients
• Making online sales work for an in-store retail recovery

BD+C Senior Editor John Caulfield interviews Mark Landini, Principal with the Sydney, Australia-based Landini Associates, about Post-COVID retail trends and expectations.

Landini is a global consultant whose clientele includes such retailers as Conran's, McDonald's, Loblaws, and ALDI, and brands such as Burts Bees.

Daina Pitzenberger, RN, Senior Vice President of Project Development Services with JLL, joins BD+C Editorial Director David Barista to discuss the key takeaways from JLL's recent survey of 4,015 healthcare patients on how the built environment impacts the patient and family experience.

Pitzenberger talks about how location is vitally important in today's healthcare environment, and how COVID-19 is driving trends like rapid adoption of telehealth and decentralized health services.

This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from Bozzuto Management Company and Goldman Copeland about:

• Advice on installing EV ports in multifamily housing
• Advances in fire protection engineering

BD+C's Robert Cassidy speaks with Pete Zadoretsky, Vice President of Sustainability at Bozzuto Management Company, who offers his experience installing electric vehicle charging stations in both new construction and retrofit apartment projects.

BD+C Senior Editor John Caulfield interviews Dan Columbini, Principal and Senior Fire Protection Engineer at New York-based engineering consultant Goldman Copeland.

Columbini talks about how fire protection solutions have been adjusting to codes, the coronavirus pandemic, and advances in technology and building science.