At the 2016 PDC Summit, we’ll be unveiling the findings of our thermal comfort in healthcare spaces study. Will you be there?
Comfort for All: Calibrating Thermal Comfort for Healthcare
Thermal comfort in a healthcare is particularly challenging. The ideal comfort zone of patient rooms, doctor’s spaces, waiting areas, and highly controlled environments don’t overlap creating a perpetual challenge for how hospitals can best meet the thermal comfort needs of all the key occupants. The panel will discuss the field observations and share a series of recommendations. The discussion will also cover the intersection of the WELL Building Standard, thermal comfort and healthcare design.
Details:
Monday, March 21 | 9:45am – 10:45am
Speakers:
Andrea Love, AIA, LEED Fellow, Director of Building Science, PAYETTE
Scott Rawlings AIA, FACHA, LEED AP, Principal, PAYETTE
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.