As the landscape for academic institutions grows more competitive, determining how human factors impact the design of STEM facilities is becoming a significant consideration when it comes to attracting students and research faculty. As a result, team members at Francis Cauffman...

Maintaining patient health is always a top priority for healthcare facilities—now more than ever.

Standards of care are designed around patient wellness and multi-disciplinary care that help keep patients out of the hospital. With that objective in mind, materials used within...

Founded in 1985, not-for-profit health system Mainline Health has become a reliable fixture in Pennsylvania because of its high-performance hospitals and healthcare centers across the state. To support its rapid growth, Mainline Health enlisted the help of Francis Cauffman Architects...

Flooring products, as well as what designers and architects want to specify, have changed and developed over the past few decades - mainly impacted by the evolving design approach to healthcare design. Informed by the desire to "do no harm" building healthier hospitals has encouraged...

Since COVID-19 became part of our everyday vernacular, the ThinkLab team has been working behind the scenes to track the metrics of how the virus is affecting the interiors industry. And while our data indicates that we are still struggling through the economic effects of the...

As the healthcare industry begins to navigate the new realities of a post-pandemic world, we’re seeing changes, both large and small in scale, across healthcare design. During the initial response to the global coronavirus crisis, healthcare facilities had to adapt in order to...

The US Healthcare sector is a multi-trillion-dollar industry supported by over 20 million health workers. Based on the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) 2020 data, these professionals currently process more than 36.3 million admissions. As one of the country’s essential markets,...

As the healthcare industry begins to navigate the new realities of a post-pandemic world, we’re seeing changes, both large and small in scale, across healthcare design. During the initial response to the global coronavirus crisis, healthcare facilities had to adapt in order to...

How will hospitals design future healthcare spaces after the pandemic? As COVID-19 is impacting every facet of our healthcare systems, frontline workers will have a voice in how we prepare for the future. As such, listening and learning from them will be a fascinating and challenging...

As the coronavirus crisis drags on and outbreaks continue—and even emerge—across the United States, your routine of heading to the office every morning may feel like a half-forgotten dream. Working from home isn’t for everyone; while some people have adapted to it (and are pushing to...