Beaumont Hospital has been a longtime leader in cardiovascular care and developed the Max & Debra Ernst Heart Center to research better approaches to congestive heart failure, improving patient quality of life. They turned to HED for the firm's experience and specialization in heart centers.

"This kind of focused, Heart Failure Clinic is becoming ever-important to today's patient populations. The design incorporates a mix of highly technical solutions and operational efficiencies that will impact the quality of care and quality of life for both patients and providers."
- DAVID JAEGER, AIA, LEED AP, EDAC | HED HEALTHCARE STUDIO LEADER

With heart failure as the top reason for hospitalization of people 65 and older, the disease can greatly undermine patients' quality of life. Heart Failure Clinics are not yet common around the U.S., but their growing prominence is linked to a decrease in the number of deaths caused by heart failure or coronary heart disease over the past several years.

This new center is designed to treat 100 patient visitors per day in an outpatient setting, reducing emergency room visits and hospital stays. Comprehensive services include 12 patient care rooms, echocardiogram, stress testing and medication infusion treatment rooms.

You can also read more about this success at Beaumont in Crains Detroit Business, Building Design + Construction, and Healthcare Design.

Julia C. Lathrop Homes was originally designed by a collective of architects and constructed in 1938 as a New Deal model for public housing. Today (10/15/2019), Lathrop has completed its multi-phase transformation into a new mixed income residential and commercial community led by Lathrop Community Partners, a partnership of Related Midwest, Heartland Housing and Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation with HED acting as the Executuve Architect for Phase one!

Lathrop is unique in terms of its location on the Chicago River on the northside, the recently rehabbed North Campus includes the original Administration Building, updated apartment buildings and rowhouses, Prairie style landscape architect Jens Jensen’s Great Lawn, and the re-activated riverfront.

HED contributed its integrated design expertise and extensive housing knowledge to modernize the historic structures, address accessibility challenges and coordinate new systems not imagined in the original structures. However, the tradition of collaboration among architects and designers has also been continued in the Lathrop redevelopment. The project was master planned by Farr & Associates and HED leveraged the talents of project designer JGMA, landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh (MVVA) Historic Preservationist McGuire Igleski & Associates (MIA), and Civil Engineering by Terra.

Together, this team has reimagined the historic 35-acre development through a multi-phased masterplan that honors the original intent of the famed landscape architect Jens Jensen and creates a vibrant attraction on the City’s rapidly redeveloping riverfront, including the preservation and modernization of 16 historic buildings on the north half of the site and creating six acres of green space. Lathrop is now a bustling, diverse and sustainable neighborhood connecting two of the City’s most prominent areas.

“Related is proud of our long history of successfully preserving and developing affordable and mixed-income communities that serve the needs of all residents and the neighborhood,” said Curt Bailey, president of Related Midwest. “For Lathrop, we worked closely with our partners to revitalize and reimagine a historic riverfront community rooted in a rich cultural past. Through the Lathrop Partners public-private partnership, we have brought to life the first phase of a vibrant mixed-income community that everyone can call home.”

HED's Sustainability Leader Daniel Jaconetti, AIA, LEED is attending the Architect 2030 Carbon Positive Summit - an invitation only gathering of the world’s most influential architecture, planning, engineering and construction firms to establish a plan of action for dramatically reducing embodied carbon in the built environment.

Over the next 4 decades, the world is projected to construct 230 billion square meters (2.5 trillion square feet) of buildings, an area roughly equal to the current worldwide building stock, or the equivalent of adding another New York City to the planet every 34 days.

The upfront carbon emissions associated with just three materials used in the construction of new buildings and infrastructure nearly equals annual building sector operational emissions.

By 2050, the embodied carbon from these materials in all new buildings and urban infrastructure, if built to western standards, could consume 60% of the world’s 2°C carbon budget, unless we change course, quickly.

"We are committed to advancing our clients world, and believe that this promise includes using our influence and buying power as a firm to create a positive and sustainable future for all," says Jaconetti.

The firms invited to participate in this event are currently responsible for approximately $2 trillion, or 20% of annual new construction globally. The CarbonPositive‘19 Summit will convene the leadership of these most influential architecture, engineering, planning and construction firms to take action on embodied carbon in the face of unprecedented global construction and urbanization. Discussion will focus on the most impactful and innovative design strategies, material technologies, policies and tools for rapidly driving global change through CarbonPositive practice.

HED is excited to partner with Michigan Technological University (MTU) to create a new H-STEM Engineering & Health Technologies Complex, which will house MTU’s integrated educational programs that apply engineering and science to issues related to human health. The complex will co-locate multiple departments including Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Kinesiology/Integrated Physiology to work together in shared collaborative space to advance learning, develop new technologies and prepare a technologically skilled future workforce. One of the leading STEM Universities in the Midwest, the new H-STEM Complex will allow MTU’s scientists and engineers to make new discoveries through research, by supporting workforce and economic development in the state of Michigan and strengthening the University’s role as a leader in STEM education and innovation. The project will also look to advance MTU’s sustainability goals to create environments focused on the health of building occupants and efficient use of energy and resources.

HED is inspired by MTU’s vision for the H-STEM project and its proposed plan to reimagine its existing facilities to create new state-of-the-art instructional and research spaces to support team-based learning and encourage interdisciplinary relationships. HED brings significant higher education, STEM and laboratory programming and planning experience to this project and will provide architectural design, lab planning, MEPFP engineering and landscape architectural design services for the project, on MTU’s campus overlooking Portage Lake in Houghton, Michigan. As part of this effort, HED will support MTU in securing State of Michigan approval at each project milestone.

The H-STEM Complex will be designed to support the University’s mission - to create solutions for society’s challenges by delivering action-based undergraduate and graduate education, discovering new knowledge through research, and launching new technologies through innovation.

The project is targeting completion by fall, 2023.

HED welcomes Patrick Slattery to the firm as a Business Development Manager serving workplace and housing clients in Chicago. With over a decade of experience in architecture and design, Patrick leverages extensive expertise across multiple disciplines including, workplace, hospitality, housing, mixed-use, retail healthcare programs, as well as extensive experience within the real estate development industry, and international markets serving clients such as Equity Commonwealth, Northwestern Memorial, PIRHL Development, JP Morgan Chase, and Palmer House Chicago, among others.

Prior to joining HED, Patrick stewarded workplace & tenant improvement pursuits across the US and Canada as a Sr. Project Manager for CBRE - Global Workplace Solutions. Dedicated to design as an evolving, lifetime pursuit, he also gives back to the profession by serving as an Adjunct Professor of Architecture & Design at Robert Morris University.

Patrick’s passion for design and a creative pragmatism will be integral to HED’s effectiveness toward its mission: Advancing Your World. we seek creative solutions that have a positive Impact for our clients, the community, and the world.

HED welcomes Maria Meldrum, JD, MBA, PE as Associate Corporate Counsel and Associate Principal in the Detroit office.

With more than 17 years of experience representing legal interests of Architects, Engineers, Land Surveyors, Geologists, and Contractors in complex and technical construction, environmental, and commercial litigation matters Maria will leverage her extensive experience litigating and arbitrating both small and complex building and construction related matters in her counsel and representation of HED.

Described as a high-energy leader who applies superb problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, Maria began her career in civil engineering, practicing in the field for over 10 years before transitioning to law.

Maria’s extensive experience with Legal, Financial, and Engineering expertise combined with creativity, resourcefulness, and independent thinking will be invaluable to our firm as we continue to seek out new ways to create positive impact for our clients, the community, and the world.

HED welcomes Rick Castillo, AIA, NCARB, to the firm as a Studio Leader and Associate Principal in the Los Angeles office. He will oversee Corporate and Commercial housing projects and will be supported by HED's extensive technical team of architects, engineers and designers.

With over 30 years of experience in Architecture, Design, and Construction, Rick is respected for his pragmatic approach to project design and ability to lead multiple user groups, consultants, and construction professionals.

His extensive portfolio includes complex, mixed use and high-rise projects for prominent clients throughout California, the western United States, and internationally.

Prior to joining HED, Rick established himself as a leader and mentor within the profession. He understands that a successful project consists of a passion for design and skillful technical execution.

Rick will be integral to HED's effectiveness toward its mission: Advancing Your World. Founded in 1908, we seek creative solutions that have a positive Impact for our clients, the community, and the world.