Tag Archives: healthcare

4 Keys to Managing CEQA for California’s First LEED Platinum-Certified Hospital

Kaiser Permanente’s ambitious goal for a new 450-bed hospital included LEED Platinum Certification and becoming a valued neighborhood resource. The new medical campus was recently named the Best Healthcare Project in California in 2017 by Engineering News Record. “When you’re building a hospital, it’s like building a mini-city,” said Shawn Shamlou, AICP, Dudek’s CEQA Principal

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Regional Medical Center Opens New Packaged Treatment Facility

A small packaged wastewater treatment plant designed to serve a regional medical center significantly improved the quality of treated effluent, and was completed under-budget, enabling the medical center to add a connection from the new plant to a nearby elder care center. The Hi-Desert Medical Center (HDMC) and the Joshua Basin Water District (JBWD) jointly

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CEQA Tips for Hospital Seismic Standards

California’s hospital administrators face a January 2013 deadline to retrofit or rebuild acute-care inpatient hospitals to meet stringent earthquake life-safety standards, complicated further by the passage of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. “With the far-reaching requirements set by new regulation, and complexity of project design and implementation stemming there from,

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Construction Management Award for City Senior Center

The City of Fontana and Dudek have been recognized for excellence by the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Southern California Chapter for the city’s new Community Senior Center. Working as the city’s representative on the new $15.3 millon project, Dudek’s construction managers provided the following services: Completion of the project design (95%–100% construction documents)

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