Next month PAYETTE’s Andrea Love and Megan van der Linde will present at the 2015 Healthcare Design Conference.
Session: Natural Ventilation of Patient Wards: Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation:
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 | 1:15pm-2:15pm
Using natural ventilation for cooling and ventilation can lead to energy savings, improved indoor air quality and well-being, and building resiliency, among other benefits. While naturally ventilated wards are common in Europe, in the U.S., this passive cooling strategy is rarely used. This session will outline the impact on potential energy savings associated with using natural ventilation associated to code compliance, climate region, and window geometry. Presenters will summarize the results of a survey distributed amongst U.S. leaders in healthcare, intended to quantify the most critical challenges that are stopping natural ventilation from being used.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.