Shedding Light on Difficult Jobs

The article below comes from HealthcareDesignMagazine.com.  It talks about daylighting, a topic we discuss here a lot.  If you like what you see here, access some of the similar posts by clicking the articles found at the end of this article.  This post may be seen in it’s original form here.

After studies showed the positive effects of daylighting in healing environments, designers began introducing large windows with views to the outdoors in patient rooms and waiting areas. As the practice grew, family respite areas and staff spaces eventually saw the light, too.

Now facilities are taking the move further, incorporating daylighting into some nontraditional areas, including the surgical environment.

“Daylight and connections to the outside are further and further acknowledged as an imperative for healthcare environments to maintain and improve health and well-being. It makes a lot of sense to extend daylighting into all areas where staff and patients spend many hours of their day,” says Eva Henrich-Behringer, healthcare planner,  Heinle, Wischer & Partner (Berlin).

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