Lobby Renovation in East Tennessee | Project Spotlight
Steve Ward & Associates is proud to show our latest project, a corporate lobby in East Tennessee. Our goal for the space was to create something up-to-date and into the future. The clean lines and bright colors make the lobby a modern, yet inviting space. MBI Companies’ design and renovation plans incorporate many elements to bring this concept to life. … Read More
Analysis: Prefabrication and Modular Construction 2020 SmartMarket Report
Dodg Data & Analytics’ Prefabrication and Modular Construction 2020 SmartMarket Report gives us a huge amount of insight into the benefits of prefabrication as well as what the future for it looks like. The report, over 60 pages long, explores several different angles and industries. Here we can see just how much the prefabrication market is changing, as well as … Read More
What Back to School Looks Like in a Covid-19 Affected World
Several months into the coronavirus crisis, we begin to shift our lens to figuring out how to live in a Covid-19 affected world. With a vaccine on the horizon and mask mandates in place across the nation, our lives may not return to normal, or at least what it was before the pandemic. However, as the Summer closes out, some … Read More
Design Assistance in a Post Covid-19 World
In the midst of the largest healthcare crisis of our lifetime, healthcare staff and designers are finding themselves constantly developing new strategies to keep up with the pandemic. We are several months into the Covid-19 crisis, and active cases continue to rise. ICUs are reaching their capacities. Infection is spreading faster than contact tracers can keep up with. Short-term hospitals … Read More
How the Healthcare Design Landscape is Being Changed by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly changing the world around us. Healthcare design is at the forefront of these changes. At the root of these factors: hospital capacity limits, staff health and satisfaction, and patient care, is the way our hospitals and medical offices are designed. In a crisis like COVID-19, it falls onto companies like ForWard Headwall® to help doctors … Read More
The Importance of Prefabrication and Evidence-Based Design in Healthcare Crises
Flattening the Curve The race to create hospital beds across America is on as the COVID-19 threat grows into a larger crisis than previous expectations. As cities enforce Stay at Home orders, Americans are quarantining in an effort to ‘flatten the curve.’ In other words, reduce the rate of infection to prevent healthcare systems from overwhelming. Even with these efforts, … Read More
Hospital Headwall Industry Growth Shown in New Market Forecast
With a booming market and expanding hospital and healthcare industry, the future of hospital headwalls looks promising. In a newly released report called Medical Headwalls Market to 2027 – Global Analysis and Forecasts by Product Type; Application and Geography by The Insight Partners, they expect “the global medical headwalls market to reach $1,318.68 million in 2027 from $826.80 million in 2018” (ReportLinker). It’s clear … Read More
Shine Award June 2020
SHINE AWARD FEBRUARY 2020And the winner is?… Rodney HayesNominated by: Chris Rogers In the midst of these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 crisis, they’ve been on the front lines daily traveling to sites keeping our installations moving forward. They like many of us are uncertain what each day may hold, but each morning they strap on their boots, pack a … Read More
Steve Ward & Associates: 40 Years Later
As we go about our normal routine this Monday afternoon, the environment at Steve Ward & Associates feels ever so slightly different. Today is the day we commemorate 40 years of our company’s existence. It’s a proud moment for all of us here, and for those who have played a part in our success. For four decades we have prided … Read More