September 18, 2020
Operating in the Pandemic Age: The Pursuit for Efficiency, Sustainability
In this article, team members from BWBR and Dunham Associates explore performance design options for healthcare facilities operating during a...
September 15, 2020
BWBR Names Curlee First Key Manager for Performance Design
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – In an organization-wide move to enhance and reinforce sustainability practices, BWBR named Sara Goenner Curlee, AIA,...
August 10, 2020
Scenario Planning: Designing Resiliency into Operations
In the past 15 years, the coronavirus spread is one of many unplanned events that have challenged both large and small organizations, alike. MERS, SARS, mass shootings, 100-year floods, tornadoes – the scenarios that strain the resources of hospitals, clinics, and the communities that they serve occur at a greater frequency that ever before.
August 7, 2020
BWBR Rankin Hall Renovation Earns Carroll University’s Second LEED Certification
A nationally registered historic lab and classroom facility at Carroll University has earned LEED® certification, making it the second campus...
July 31, 2020
Scope and Scale: Primary Care Faces Innovative Disruptions
Rachel Woods stated it succinctly: Primary care is primed for disruption. And that was before COVID-19 hit the United States...
July 13, 2020
Scenario Planning: How to be Resilient in Design and Operations
The spread of the coronavirus across the United States did more than expose the nation’s health system’s challenge in responding...
July 17, 2020
BWBR Hosting Live Discussion on Primary Care’s Future
Projected revenue losses for primary care physicians and organizations are expected to exceed $15 billion in 2020. More than impacting...
June 3, 2020
For Provider Health, Virtual Care Will Need Real Space
“Face-to-face physician visits will never be the same again in healthcare.” Chris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health, made this...
June 2, 2020
We can no longer deny our role
Words alone can not capture the amount of shock, anger, and grief we have felt over the past week. To...
May 12, 2020
What Comes Next? For Organizations, Answers Can Be Found Now
For most organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic’s rapid spread had a whiplash effect on business operations. Overnight, processes and procedures were...
May 8, 2020
“We want to make sure, whatever we do, that it is safe, effective, and equitable when we come back.”
How offices reopen is as much a question as when for many organizations. In our third episode of BWBR Design...
April 23, 2020
“This is eye-opening for a lot of leaders.”
The rapid disruption to our workplaces and our workflows caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has been revealing, both as employees...