Chronicle 2: CDS Specialty - Healthcare

CDS' Design Director, Damon Thomas, recently traveled to beautiful Grand Traverse, Michigan for the Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) and AIA Michigan Health Facilities Planning Seminar. The event featured presentations from healthcare service providers and administrators, as well as design and facilities professionals, providing the latest information to assist in the planning, designing, constructing and maintaining health facilities. Damon also had the opportunity to meet and network with other professionals offering services specific to the health facilities market.

Damon (right) at the Health Facilities Planning Seminar,
with Thom Thelen of Acoustics by Design (left) and
Bianca Graves of Tooles Contracting Group (center)

You see, health facilities is one of the market segments we specialize in at Centric Design Studio. Most recently, we partnered with Harley Ellis Devereaux (an Architectural Record Top 250 Firm) to provide design development, construction documentation and building information modeling (BIM) services for the new Cardiovascular and Multispecialty Building at the Detroit Medical Center central campus. The 162,000 square foot, $110 million facility will house interventional and non-invasive cardiology and ambulatory surgery along with two floors of medical offices.

Damon (far right) at the groundbreaking ceremony for the
new DMC Cardiovascular and Multispcialty building