Case Studies

Cancer is a frightening diagnosis, so when Michael Monaldo sat down with his team and with clinicians at John Muir Health, they developed a concept for a new treatment center environment that would uplift patients and make it easy for them to find their way to care. The UCSF-John Muir Health Cancer Center will sit […]

It may be a school that adheres to conservative values and for that Liberty University makes no apologies. But it needn’t cling to some old and very inefficient ways of campus and facilities upkeep. So, Michael S. Terrell emphasized two years ago when returning to where he had lived, the idyllic locale of Lynchburg, Virginia, […]

There’s no avoiding the risk of infection at any hospital. But there are ways of mitigating it. So Mat Bradley emphasizes while going about his responsibilities as facilities director at 174-bed Titus Regional Medical Center in the Northeast Texas community of Mount Pleasant. A hospital’s plumbing apparatus often where bacteria festers, he’s assembled a water […]

In the world of architecture, engineering and construction, working from home typically isn’t feasible. No one can lay bricks or properly evaluate a metal and concrete foundation from their sofa. Yet, as the adage goes, “necessity is the mother of invention.” For Marc Goldman and the AEC industry, that necessity came in the form of […]

It was just another day at Veranex, an end-to-end medical device company, when the main electrical switch at the company’s Providence, Rhode Island, manufacturing facility malfunctioned, cutting off the power supply. While the obvious issue was the sudden darkness and idled equipment, Matt Branch was thinking about something else: With manufacturing at full speed, every […]

When most students eat their school-issued lunches, they don’t know where the food comes from. Typically, they can assume it’s been mass-produced, frozen or canned. Students at Santa Clara Unified School District, however, don’t need to guess. Their food is grown on campus. “We run a farm here where we grow the food ourselves, harvest […]

It’ s not always easy for a hospital system to be sustainable. The lights are always on, machines like respirators run steady throughout the night and refrigerators must be kept cold to preserve medicines and specimens. These are but a few of the challenges Mike McKay encounters at UW Health as he works with his […]

It’s a design that hasn’t gone stale, it’s just in need of some refreshment. So explains Michael Kazarian as he oversees renovations at around 75 Panera Bread locales this year. Much has changed since the popular chain of bakery-cafes debuted in 1987, with the past few years perhaps the most consequential for Panera as well […]

Education is multifaceted. For instance, one can learn how to install an irrigation system by working on a farm or by sitting behind a college desk. Marcos Rodriguez did both. Between 1996 and 2004, he worked as an irrigation manager for Wonderful Orchards, a pistachio, almond and pomegranate farm covering 22,000 acres. In 1999, he […]

If nothing else, it’s been a change of pace for Mike Craig. For nearly 20 years, he played crucial roles in facilities management at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. From his beginnings as a contracted foreman in the electronic shop, he rose through the ranks and became director of facility management. However, Craig says he […]