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Syska Hennessy key staff members regularly contribute technical articles on a variety of topics to leading industry publications. In addition, Syska Hennessy projects are often the recipient of industry awards for excellence in design and construction. You may contact any number of our experts for more information.

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Medical Construction & Design
The Vital Signs of Green Building Management
Increasing sustainability starts with the HVAC system. Side bar features Northern Westchester Hospital as a case study/example.
appeared in Medical Construction & Design

Building Design & Construction
Green Power
This article gives an introduction towind, solar, and geothermal power, explaining how they affect the building market as well as project planning and construction.
appeared in Building Design & Construction

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
M/E insider: recent new hires and promotions
Syska annouces an expansion to the Asia market and new leadership in Houston.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Healthcare Building Ideas
Champion both Infection Control and Energy Conservation
How Hospital's can be designed to address infection control issues and how save energy at the same time.
appeared in Healthcare Building Ideas

Healthcare Design Magazine
Navigating the integration superhighway
By dissolving individual wireless and stationary network systems into a single, integrated superhighway, hospitals can save costs, while increasing reliability and redundancy.
appeared in Healthcare Design Magazine

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
M/E insider: recent new hires and promotions
Syska Hennessy Group, New York City, named James Coe, PE, Christopher Johnston, PE, and Carol Fern, PE, to the positions of senior vice presidents.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

New England Real Estate Journal
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Challenges Local Fire Protection Codes to Better Protect Occupants
Dana Farber brought on board the fire/life safety design engineers from Syska Hennessy to help create a new fire evacuation system that still appreciates the vulnerabilities of the patients and the responsibilities of the Institute's staff simultaneously.
appeared in New England Real Estate Journal

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Energy Efficiency Prescriptions for Health Care Facilities
A nine-point check up can help health care facility executives find significant opportunities for savings.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Plumbing Systems & Design
Nanotechnology Plumbing Design
Learn the basics of designing the plumbing systems for a nanotech laboratory.
appeared in Plumbing Systems & Design

Medical Construction & Design
Advanced Technology: Enhancing Patient Experience
Just like the ultimate goal of air travel is to get the passenger quickly and safely to his desired destination— with in-flight entertainment only an added bonus—the use of advanced technology in the medical field serves the purpose of getting the patient from the scene of the accident to the emergency room, and ultimately back home as quickly and with as few complications as possible.
appeared in Medical Construction & Design

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Light Untamed
We’re not as familiar with are the complexities that accompany a daylighting design and the problems of its often erroneous implementation. To reap the benefits, daylighting strategies must be designed and installed correctly--a task that isn’t as simple as it seems.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

HVAC Web Connection
ASHRAE Awards First Certification for Healthcare Facility Design
Ildefonso Bayron, Jr. is an associate partner for Syska Hennessy Group, Los Angeles, Calif. He and 28 others recently earned certification after passing the exam at ASHRAE’s 2007 Annual Meeting.
appeared in HVAC Web Connection

Environmental Design + Construction
Web Exclusive: A Breath of Fresh Air
Green Hospital Environments on the Rise
appeared in Environmental Design + Construction

Healthcare Design Magazine
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center Gilbert, AZ
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center (MGMC) is a four-story, 210-bed, 358,650-sq.-ft acute care hospital located in Gilbert, Arizona, about 30 minutes southeast of Phoenix.
appeared in Healthcare Design Magazine

Business Facilities
Top Trends In Lab Design
Sustainability and flexibility are driving the design of new laboratories in the 21st Century. Here’s what one expert says a modern design should look like.
appeared in Business Facilities

Building Design & Construction
Silver Award: Rehabilitation Center Rebuilds Wounded War Heroes
The Center for the Intrepid provides hope for injured veterans, as well as important research into the rehabilitation of modern war injuries.
appeared in Building Design & Construction

Health Facilities Management
Staking Claim
Organization opens hospital in Arizona boom town
appeared in Health Facilities Management

The Data Center Journal
Syska Hennessy Forms Green Critical Facilities Committee (Green CF)
Being industry leaders in the design and construction of Critical Facilities and Sustainable and High Performance Building Technology, we recognize the need to integrate these practices and look beyond traditional design.
appeared in The Data Center Journal

Real Estate Weekly
Syska Hennessy Stays in Step with Healthcare Visionaries
For more than three decades, Syska has evolved to meet the technological needs of the healthcare industry.
appeared in Real Estate Weekly

Architectural Record
Banner Estrella Medical Center
NBBJ designs a technologically advanced hospital with room to expand, at the crossroads of several growing cities
appeared in Architectural Record

HealthcareFacility
Improving Hospitals’ Preventive Maintenance Programs
Hospitals and health care systems have been slow to adopt automated preventive maintenance programs. Due to intense pressure to cut costs, hospital officials sometimes decide to shortchange the maintenance staff, where a lack of resources often manifests itself through an apparent lack of progress and improvement in the organization.
appeared in HealthcareFacility

Houston Business Journal
Caretsky Acquired by Syska Hennessy Group
Syska Hennessy Group has acquired Caretsky & Associates Consulting Engineers, a firm with roots in the Houston area.
appeared in Houston Business Journal

Healthcare Building Ideas
HVAC Systems Can Pose Risks
How to maximize infection control in energy-efficient HVAC systems
appeared in Healthcare Building Ideas

Building Design & Construction
Rehabilitation Center for Wounded Veterans Taking Shape at Fort Sam Houston
SmithGroup has designed the Center for the Intrepid's National Armed Forces Physical Rehabilitation Center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The four-story, 65,000-sf center will provide patients with severe extremity injuries, amputations, and burns sustained during service in Iraq the opportunity to regain their pre-injury abilities.
appeared in Building Design & Construction

Healthcare Building Ideas
Can Integrated Technologies Save the Healthcare Industry?
The time is now for today's healthcare leaders to advocate a new vision by preparing their facilities to accommodate new technologies.
appeared in Healthcare Building Ideas

Healthcare IT News
The Big Question: Will They Cooperate?
It’s not the $64,000 question, but the $18.6 million one – can the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology get vendors and providers to cooperate?
appeared in Healthcare IT News

Contract Magazine
Be My Guest
Since the ultimate goal of caregiving is to get the patient well and back to his normal life in the shortest period of time, that should be the directive behind any blueprint for a well-designed patient room.
appeared in Contract Magazine

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Health Care: The Market is OK—for Now
For the New York-based Syska Hennessy Group, the health-care market has been very good to the consulting engineering firm, with major activity on both coasts.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Engineered Systems
A Westchester Classic
Creating a state-of-the-art children’s hospital requires innovative solutions that meet current and future needs of the facility. Sensitivity to the health and emotional needs of the children and families who use the facility is also a critical component of such a project.
appeared in Engineered Systems

Today's Facility Manager
The Hospital of the Future
Like the human population it serves, Banner Estrella was born to grow and thrive for years to come.
appeared in Today's Facility Manager

HES News
The Hospital Engineering Society of Greater NY (HES News)
Syska was pleased to present our Critical Facilities in Healthcare Program on May 12, 2005 to the HES. Here is the May 2005 HES news letter.
appeared in HES News

Southwest Construction
From Holsteins to Hospitals
Catholic Healthcare West's new Gilbert Mercy Medical Center won't be surrounded by dairy farms for long.
appeared in Southwest Construction

Real Estate Weekly
House-Shaped Hospital New ‘Home’ For Children in Valhalla, N.Y.
As hospitals get more and more specialized, they are seeking to address the specific health and emotional needs of children and their families.
appeared in Real Estate Weekly

Southwest Construction
Southwest Contractor's 2004 Best of Awards
Welcome to Southwest Contractor magazine's annual "Best of 2004" competition.
appeared in Southwest Construction

Southwest Construction
West Side Wellness - Banner Estrella Establishes Architectural Vocabulary in Former Field
Phoenix's West Side is the site of rapid growth and a new hospital owned by Banner Health is quickly taking shape.
appeared in Southwest Construction

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Trends in Healthcare Energy Management
Whether it’s cogeneration or load aggregation, a multitude of energy management options can help hospitals and clinics save money
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Integration, Step-by-step
For healthcare facilities, integration can cut costs and boost productivity. The key is developing a plan that meets the unique needs of the organization - today and tomorrow.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Engineered Systems
Designing Under (Positive) Pressure
Focus on Healthcare - new advances in hospital patient room airflow
appeared in Engineered Systems


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