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    Sustainable Medical Spaces: Designing Clinical Environments That Heal Patients and the Planet

    Eco-friendly medical center design targets social equality, comfort and patient healing while decreasing its negative environmental impact and increasing its productivity and profits. Sustainable health care facilities implement their eco-friendliness in various ways, but incorporate their goals and methods into core principles that don’t vastly differ.  You might find that a cancer treatment facility includes sunshine and greenery as primary factors in calming and improving patient moods while reducing energy consumption with more sunlight. Alternatively, a mental health facility might use green roofs to absorb heat and carbon dioxide while better controlling stormwater runoff and providing a visually appealing and calming area for patients. Medical spaces use fundamental design principles…