December 17, 2020
BWBR Expands Capabilities with Strategic Facility Advisor
Brandon King has seen the costs of a facility from both ends of the spectrum. As an architect and owner’s...
December 2, 2020
Lloyd Bergquist, the second ‘B’ in BWBR, passes
A gentle soul always with a smile on his face. More than a physical description, those words captured the essence...
November 19, 2020
Building Staff Resilience in a Time of COVID-19
“Every practitioner, nurse, social worker, physician—they are worried for their own health. They’re worried they’re going to bring this home...
October 19, 2020
BWBR Welcomes Seven New Associates
BWBR named seven new associates within the employee-owned firm, following the January 2020 recognition of twelve new shareholders. With each...
October 13, 2020
EmPATH Units: Improving Psychiatric Emergency Care
The numbers, alone, are attention grabbing For institutions that have implemented EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing) models for...
October 12, 2020
Mayo Clinic’s Benefactor Recognition Displays Earn Interior Design Award
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The renewal of two benefactor recognition displays on Mayo Clinic’s Rochester, Minn., campus immerses visitors in...
October 12, 2020
Every Space is a Learning Space
Learning space design, approached from a holistic perspective, takes into account the spectrum of learning activities and the variety of...
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...