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John Osbourn
John Bernard Howard Osbourn ARIBA AA Dipl. John Osbourn’s name appears amongst those Obituaries listed in the February issue of the RIBA Journal. By nature a very modest person, he was outstanding for the contribution he made to architectural education and for his life long dedication to the protection and enhancement of the environment that we... »
GUPHA Forum
Reporting the 5th Gupha Forum at the University of Tokyo, November 2007 Gupha meet in Tokyo The Gupha Forum 1 consisted of many speakers from all parts of the globe addressing both macro and micro forms of health care design from world health provision and massive hospitals in Malaysia to the new Community Facilities in Northern... »
Chairman’s Annual Report 2007
Last year I reported that the high level of activity that we had achieved overstretched the available time of executive members and were arranging an away day for the executive members early this year to review and clarify AfH’s objectives, to prioritise these, to develop achievable strategies and the means to resource them. The Wellcome... »
Chairman’s Annual Report 2005
Organisational Development Several years ago the executive committee held an away day to set activities and priorities for Architects for Health. The potential for developing existing and new initiatives were identified and priorities were discussed. It was unanimously recognised that the essential first step to implementing these initiatives was the provision of some management and... »
The Howard Goodman Bursary Update July 2005
Howard Goodman Fellowship: Innovation and Adaptability in Healthcare Facilities Increasing demand for healthcare and changing trends in healthcare delivery pose challenges for healthcare infrastructure. Shorter technology lifecycles and evolving service models stand in sharp contrast to the long lifetime of physical building structures. These trends are creating new and increasing pressures on the requirements... »
Architects for Health at Charing Cross Hospital
Ann Noble, chair of Architects for Health writes: Architects working in the health sector frequently express concern that they have limited opportunities to talk directly to and explore and exchange information with clinical staff who will be working in the buildings they are designing. They also find that when the opportunity does occur it is... »
The future of the Private Finance Initiative
Edited by Ann Rossiter Report of the Social Market Foundation Seminar series 2004 1. Cost and value for money Overall, PFI initiatives have proved to deliver timely and cost-effective projects. Concerns regarding the costs of PFI have sometimes been overstated and have diverted attention away from am ore considered view of problems with PFI programmes. Some of those,... »
The Howard Goodman Bursary
Martina Köberle-Gaiser has been appointed Howard Goodman Research Fellow at the Innovation Studies Centre at Imperial College on the basis of the Howard Goodman Fellowship. Martina Koberle-Gaiser trained as an architect in Germany and started her career in an architectural practice in Stuttgart, Germany. Amongst various other project types, she had the opportunity to work... »
2004: Architects for Health celebrates its 10th birthday!
2004 marks the 10th Anniversary of Architects for Health. The society began as a loose association of architects in health planning, initiated by Professor Raymond Moss in early 1993, and was formalised in late 1993 with the appointment of an Executive Committee. The article below by Professor Moss, which appeared in Hospital Development in... »
Chairman’s Annual Report 2003
AfH has had an active and productive year. Our membership continues to increase. We have had the opportunity to contribute to, participate in and generate more activities and initiatives than we currently have resources to take up and develop. We are actively seeking sponsorship, which will enable us to do more. At last year’s AGM,... »
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