Events

David Sachs is the 2008 RTKL Professor in Residence in the Shanghai office. He will share his impressions of Shanghai in an illustrated lecture entitled Photographic Ethnography (or) Why I Love Shanghai. David has been with RTKL in Shanghai for the past six months while on sabbatical from Kansas State University. When he has not been helping on projects, he has been prowling the streets of Shanghai gathering provocative images and ideas.

By curving and pinching the rectangular race-track design of the patient unit, a similar elliptical, organic patient floor plan has been developed as the most appropriate solution for two new RTKL hospitals, resulting in cost-effective and efficient adjacencies, reduced walking distances, enhanced visibility and connectivity, and wide windows to enhance daylighting. RTKL speakers, Alan Wilson, Georgeann Burns and Steve Blye, will discuss the benefits of elliptical shaped patient floor plans.

As digital technology radically influences how clinical healthcare systems operate, proper data-center planning can go a long way. Using Johns Hopkins Hospital as a case study, Robert Romero and Stephen Spinazzola will discuss how JHH used long range planning and related data center planning helped JHH prepare for explosive growth in the deployment of digital clinical systems expansion. Formula calculations enabled the planning team to determine optimum solutions for hardware, software, space, power, cooling, maintenance, and money.