Westchester Medical Center – Ronald McDonald House
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects

Consulting to Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, SDC assisted in all aspects of the project’s sustainable design beginning during schematic design and continuing through indoor air quality testing upon completion.

Ronald McDonald Houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest. The RMH is located a very short walk from the Children’s Hospital. A LEED Gold certification is anticipated for the 18,000 square foot building which provides a “home-away-from-home” for families close to their hospitalized child.

Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center,
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners – NYSERDA/EME Group
Hillier Group, William Reed

Designed by architects, SDC assisted the team in establishing the foundation for LEED Gold Accreditation. The new 120,000 square foot Heart Hospital greatly expands the functional capacity of the Cardiology Department. The building design includes an intervention into the existing hospital complex and serves to express the vitality and dynamism of the rapidly changing medical community it serves. A curving all-glass sun-controlled wall acts as a counterpoint to the existing masonry buildings and provides panoramic views of its spectacular setting to visitors, patients, and medical practitioners.

New York Methodist Hospital - Brooklyn
Perkins & Will Architects

P&W designed this major 100,000 square foot hospital expansion fronting on Sixth Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Park Slope is considered one of New York City's most desirable neighborhoods. In 2010, it was ranked number 1 in New York by New York Magazine citing its quality public schools, dining, nightlife, shopping, access to public transit, green space, quality housing, safety, and creative capital, among other aspects.

Park Slope features historic buildings, top-rated restaurants, bars, and shops, as well as proximity to Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the Central Library (as well as the Park Slope branch) of the Brooklyn Public Library system.[
SDC’s Bobenhausen (then Chief of Specifications, and Director of Energy Planning at P&W) wrote the architectural specs and coordinated the energy efficient design of the hospital including installation of a large solar array.

A voluntary, non-profit hospital, New York Methodist’s mission is to provide excellent health care services in a compassionate and humane manner to the people who live and work in Brooklyn and its surrounding areas.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center
David Smotrich and Partners

A new science building was designed by David Smotrich and Partners with Sustainable Design Collaborative provided LEED-related services beginning during Schematic Design.

The Downtown Medical Center is older than the Brooklyn Bridge, and traces it’s roots back to 1860. The new college’s faculty revolutionized medical education in this country by bringing the teaching of medicine to the hospital bedside, thus rejecting the idea that physicians should be trained exclusively in university lecture halls.