COVID-19’s spread exposed cracks in the healthcare sector, but also opportunities in this sector for AEC firms.

America’s healthcare sector found itself in an ambivalent state in late 2020, as the coronavirus raged relentlessly across the country and as the distribution of two newly...

Over the last several years, healthcare systems have been developing more and more ambulatory facilities to gain market share, build patient loyalty, and provide care closer to the communities they serve. The need to locate this space away from acute care campuses has grown and become...

Not long ago (think 2019), the design of office spaces had been reinvented. Private offices were out unless absolutely necessary. Open seating was available to encourage discussion, impromptu meetings, and a moment of relaxation. Then COVID-19 struck, sending workers to their homes...

When you think of your facility’s restroom design what comes to mind? A functional environment that meets the personal needs of users? Certainly. But historically speaking, restrooms have long been battlegrounds in the struggle for civil rights. 

Designers from FCA and several other...

FCA and Tactix collaborated on this project to achieve a holistic view of how legal offices are surviving and revisiting how they plan to operate in the “Next Office”. We recognized early in the COVID-19 Experience that it just wasn’t a matter of prescribing space sizes but how that...

Staff Efficiency: When designing a new bed floor, we work on making the design as efficient as possible for the nursing staff. We study the footfalls required to do their daily tasks and try to tweak the design until the staff workflow is as efficient as possible.

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Design and landscape experts at FCA and the American Society of Landscape Architects discuss green building and nature-based solutions to enhance human health and combat climate change.

Working and living in healthier buildings has been top of mind for everyone since the onset of the...

If the current pandemic has taught us anything it is that we are all connected and part of a global community. Just as our natural environment is an intricate balance of an ecosystem; buildings exist on a much smaller, but equally important scale, as touchpoints of their communities...