Healthcare Design (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)

Healthcare Design (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design) Review

Healthcare Design (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)

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Comprehensive coverage of healthcare design fundamentals--from the field's top professionals

Healthcare Design examines all of the basic elements necessary to create physical environments that enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. Written by practicing professionals, educators, and other experts in the field, this book is an essential cornerstone for anyone building a career in healthcare design.

Combining important concepts with practical guidance, this definitive resource:
* Covers planning, designing, and furnishing of cost-effective, efficient facilities that serve patient needs
* Contains product specification information for a range of design components--from floorcoverings and ceilings to furniture, lighting, textiles, and more
* Addresses current topics such as wayfinding, green design, healing art, and therapeutic effects of landscape architecture
* Features a wide selection of photographs, including an eight page full-color insert


As massive changes in healthcare financing and delivery sweep the industry, the question of how to create facilities that address market considerations, satisfy government regulations, and accommodate patient needs is setting the agenda for today's healthcare design professionals.

Healthcare Design is the first comprehensive source of the basic information and resources necessary to plan, design, and furnish efficient physical environments that facilitate quality healthcare delivery. Written for architects, designers, and planners who are new to this growing field, the book presents key contributions from leading experts within an overall framework based on the healthcare design certificate program offered by New York University.

Practical ideas are provided for every stage of the design process--from site visits and programming to design implementation and evaluation. You'll also find extensive product guidance and coverage of new trends such as green design and therapeutic effects of landscape architecture. The photographs that accompany the text--many in color--vividly illustrate the design concepts while showcasing the work of some of the best professionals in the business.

Well-organized and clearly written, Healthcare Design is a valuable reference for anyone taking on the exciting design challenges in healthcare today.You will not be disappointed with Healthcare Design (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)

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Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and FF&E for Commercial Interiors Projects

Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and FF&E for Commercial Interiors Projects Review

Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and FF&E for Commercial Interiors Projects

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An indispensable working resource—Supplies you with everything you need to write effective commercial interiors specifications

Writing effective commercial specifications requires detailed knowledge of contractual obligations, industry regulations and standards, and material selection criteria. But keeping abreast of the vast and ever-changing body of facts, figures, rules, and regulations concerning tenant improvement work is more than can be expected of today's busy design professional. Specifying Interiors gives you instant access to all the critical information you need to write effective commercial interiors specifications. This valuable working resource:

• Provides comprehensive coverage of all legal, regulatory, contractual, construction, and materials issues critical to successful tenant improvement work
• Includes a specifications checklist for each product or material
• Presents practice-specific selection criteria for all types of commercial spaces, including retail, health care, hospitality, and general office design
• Features over 100 line drawings and 75 photographs accompanying material descriptions

With new commercial construction approaching an all-time low and the availability of prime real estate rapidly dwindling, tenant improvement is fast becoming one of the most sought-after design specialties. Taking advantage of a trend that is expected to last well into the next century, today's most successful design firms are making tenant improvement the primary focus of their practices. A synthesis of construction and furnishing, successful tenant improvement requires the guiding hand of a design professional who fully understands the consequences of design decisions from both performance and legal standpoints, and one whose interiors specifications reflect a thorough knowledge of contractual obligations, industry regulations and standards, and material selection criteria.

Clearly, the need for a comprehensive professional reference has never been greater. Specifying Interiors provides design professionals with instant access to all the information critical to writing effective interiors specifications for retail, hospitality, health care, and general office design. It tells you what you need to know about:

• Leases and work letters
• Methods for measuring commercial office space
• Contracts for construction and for furniture and equipment
• Laws affecting contracts for interiors projects
• Specification formats
• Federal regulations, codes, and standards
• Construction and finish materials
• Furniture and furnishings
• And much more

Specifying Interiors also supplies busy design professionals with selection criteria and an annotated specifications checklist for each product or material covered, as well as more than 100 vivid line drawings and 75 photographs accompanying material descriptions.

Specifying Interiors is an indispensable tool of the trade for architects and interior designers. It is also a valuable resource for students in those fields and for anyone preparing for the NCIDQ exam.You will not be disappointed with Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and FF&E for Commercial Interiors Projects

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Planning and Managing Interior Projects (RSMeans)

Planning and Managing Interior Projects (RSMeans) Review

Planning and Managing Interior Projects (RSMeans)

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This comprehensive text addresses the ins and outs of downsizing, company mergers, and information technology—and how they affect workspace design. It will helps you successfully manage the players, agendas, and technology of today's office space construction, renovations, and relocations.

Planning & Managing Interior Projects guides facility managers, architects, and interior designers through every step in relocating to a new space or renovating an old one. In depth coverage addresses space requirements, selecting the right site, alternative work models (e.g., telecommuting, hoteling), document management, telecommunications and data issues, working with consultants, and environmental considerations.You will not be disappointed with Planning and Managing Interior Projects (RSMeans)

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Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style

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Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style

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Nancy Lancaster, who was born in 1897 into a wealthy Virginian family, became one of the greatest influences on interior decoration and garden design in Great Britain and America in the second half of the 20th century. She created what is known today as the 'English Country House Style' – a mixture of faded colors, chintzes and painted and antique furniture. In the garden, she worked in a formal yet romantic neo-Georgian style, which is still a strong spirit in British garden design. This book examines Nancy's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by chronicling her own homes and gardens –and her extraordinary life. Mirador, her family's Virginian country house, was to remain her key inspiration throughout her life. Nancy herself, her houses, her gardens and her friends are shown in an intriguing collection of photographs by distinguished photographers of the era, including Horst and Cecil Beaton.

You will not be disappointed with Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style

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A Comprehensive Guide to Oriental and Specialty Rug Cleaning

A Comprehensive Guide to Oriental and Specialty Rug Cleaning Review

A Comprehensive Guide to Oriental and Specialty Rug Cleaning

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The first book of its kind with over 900 color photographs, maps and drawings that illustrate how to identify, inspect, and clean rugs mst commonly encountered in rug cleaning plants. Drawing upon their years of cleaning, teaching, and appraising skills as well as knowledge of the most respected and successful oriental rug cleaning plans in the country, the authors combined research with firsthand knowledge in developing the most comprehensive guide in the rug cleaning industry. In an article by Dr. Steven Spivak, textiles technical expert with ASCR International and the ASCR Foundation, praises the value of this publication: Writing worth reading can be a life changing event. For a serious, substantial new book, these opening words apply not only to reader and book buyer, but as well to the authors. It applies exactly to the recent arrival of A Comprehenisve Guide to Oriental & Specialty Rug Cleaning by Amirkhan and Groseclose. This splendid, lavishly illustrated and comprehensive new rug book and cleaning guide will change the way many flooring retailers, professional cleaners, rug aficionados and our greater ASCR community will think and learn about oriental, area and specialty rugs. At 400 pages with over 900 hundred illustrations and photographs, most in full color, plus easy to understand diagrams, maps and explanatory drawings, this is one special book huzzah! It took the authors, highly respected oriental rug and rug cleaning experts, teachers, lecturers and authors, about four years of painstaking effort to bring this new rug cleaning compendium to us. It s worth the effort and demands serious attention. The rug cleaning guide contains eighteen chapters plus a glossary of terms, recommended references and a detailed index. The book is divided into several logical sections beginning with rug materials fibers and dyes; then construction and features of the many variations of machine-made rugs, plus specialty and area rugs. A major portion on hand-knotted rugs with their classification, construction, design features and means of identification. Thereafter follows the chemistry of rug cleaning, pre-inspection for problems and successful cleaning, and detailed rug cleaning methods with numerous cleaning alternatives clearly given. Rug spotting and spot removal, cleaning related problems and practical solutions comprise a major aspect of the book. A list of rug and rug cleaning resources, a mini-buyer s guide if you like, is useful to anyone in the textile furnishings and cleaning business, or thinking of diversifying further into rug cleaning. A meaningful quote begins their introduction and prelude to rug history. It s descriptive of rug marketing and retailing as well as cleaning and rug collecting. To rug neophytes as well as to experts and rug cleaners, the following describes that special love and affection many have for oriental and specialty rugs. The authors analogize rugs to Winston Churchill s portentous view of the late Soviet Union as: 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, [since this] also describes the world of oriental rugs.' Therein shows a rug s mystique and inner beauty, plus the affection from those whose business it is to import, sell, swap, collect, decorate with and/or clean and repair rugs. There are many cleaning manuals, guides, smaller or insubstantial 'books' and the like in our industry. But seldom does such a labor of love, an enormous expense in authors time, effort and cost to produce, appear for us to take notice. The Amirkhan and Groseclose Oriental & specialty Rug Cleaning book is one of those - 'first among equals' in the rug cleaning business.You will not be disappointed with A Comprehensive Guide to Oriental and Specialty Rug Cleaning

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FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Decorator (FabJob Guides)

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FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Decorator (FabJob Guides)

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As an interior decorator you will have a rewarding, high-paying job that lets you use your creativity to make homes and businesses more beautiful and comfortable.

As long as you have the desire, you can become an interior decorator. No special education or experience is necessary to break into interior decorating and succeed. (Unlike becoming a certified interior designer which has strict requirements including two to five years of post-secondary education in interior design.) You can start interior decorating and become an interior decorator immediately.

If you would like to be paid to decorate homes or businesses, the FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Decorator is for you! In this book you will discover how you can get started and succeed in the exciting career of interior decorating.

This FabJob guide focuses on information that is difficult to find elsewhere – how to get hired as an interior decorator. However, if you also want to learn interior decorating, this guide can save you many hours of research time, because it includes step-by-step interior decorating instructions. The book explains how to get hired as an interior decorator with a retailer, home builder or other industry employer. It covers how to find job openings, prepare a resume and portfolio, and do well in an interview.

It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to start an interior decorating business, set your fees, find clients, and get discounts of up to 50% on furniture and materials. The CD-ROM that comes with this book includes sample forms, checklists, furniture cut-outs, etc., plus links to interior decorating resources (including many free resources).You will not be disappointed with FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Decorator (FabJob Guides)

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Construction Materials Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch))

Construction Materials Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch)) Review

Construction Materials Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch))

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Eine Übersicht für Architekten, die auch die Bedeutung der Baustoffwahl für die sinnliche Wahrnehmung von Architektur wie Haptik, Geruch, Farbe, Oberflächenstruktur berücksichtigen. Alle wesentlichen herkömmlichen und neuartigen Baustoffe werden hinsichtlich Herstellung, Verarbeitung, Oberflächen, Anschlüssen und Kenndaten umfassend dokumentiert.You will not be disappointed with Construction Materials Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch))

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