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Product / Project Innovation Highlights

Full Circle Systems Engineering Innovative Design & Simulation Tools
June 2018 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

How an engineering firm is helping a leader in healthcare transformation to leverage high-end tools for design and simulation.
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Gerflor Mipolam Symbioz
November 2017 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

Mipolam Simbioz is a fully flexible homogenous compacted floorcovering sheet providing excellent resistance to wear and tear in high traffic areas.
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Dirtworks Sensory Arts Garden
April 2018 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

The sensory arts garden is a therapeutic space for children and adults, especially those with sensory processing challenges, providing a meaningful experience through the exploration of nature.
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Accurate Lock & Hardware Ligature Resistant Sliding Door System
August 2018 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

The patent-pending Ligature Resistant Sliding Door System is a seamless, safe, silent, secure and space-saving door opening solution designed for behavioral healthcare environments.
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Mecho's EcoVeil Sheer™
November 2018 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

Mecho’s EcoVeil Sheer is a 100% polyester shadecloth that’s PVC-free and flame retardant. The EcoVeil Sheer shadecloth features individually pigmented yarns with an attractive, distinctive twill pattern making it the ideal window covering in healthcare facilities to maximize the healthy properties of natural light.
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Porcelanosa KRION K-LIFE
March 2019 ∘ Product / Project Innovation Highlights

KRION® K-LIFE is a new generation solid surface that raises standards in sustainability and commitment to reduce environmental impact.
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Project Brief

The Role of Simulation In a New Hybrid Operating Room

May 2019 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how a practical consideration of all the elements of the new hybrid OR helped guide design choices, the role Human Factors played in optimizing the new space, how process mapping and cognitive walkthroughs furthered the design team’s understanding of the OR’s people and processes, and how buy-in from key stakeholders led to the success of this project and laid the groundwork for future efforts.
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How Evidence-Based Design and Lean Philosophies Worked Together to Create a Flexible Prototype Unit for UW Health
May 2019 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how a unit redesign for UW Health will serve as a prototype for future redesign projects, why the new unit must be flexible to respond to a variety of staff and patient needs, and how a multidisciplinary team used a range of observational findings and current literature to inform the overall design process.
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Project Brief

Taking an Empathic Approach In the Design of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
May 2019 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how a variety of approaches—including research, observation, and process mapping exercises—were used in conjunction to develop the new design plans, why the architectural team relied on existing staff, patients, and families to understand which needs to address in the redesign, and how envisioning the new center as a “house” could better support the needs of patients and families.
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Webinar

Automating Safety: How Design Research Can Reveal Solutions for Safe Environments
April 2019 ∘ Webinar

By combining observation, interviews, simulation, and rapid prototyping, this team developed design solutions that help healthcare workers stay safe while engaged in challenging tasks. This webinar brings the experience of the healthcare practitioners who cared for Ebola patients during the 2014 outbreak and introduces a human-centered discovery approach developed by design researchers at SimTigrate Design Lab to define the design requirements of spaces where the risk of self- and cross-contamination is the highest.