Takeaways From 2020 Vanderbilt Healthcare Design & Construction Symposium

Longtime sponsor of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s Annual Healthcare Design & Construction Symposium, Henderson Building Solutions proudly continued its participation during the 14th installment of the conference on Aug. 5-6. Although unique in its …

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Third-Party Inspections and Plan Review Offered by Henderson

At Henderson Engineers and Henderson Building Solutions, we believe in continually finding ways to help solve our client’s challenges so they can be successful, especially when it comes to third-party inspections, plan review, and commissioning. …

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Design Guidelines for Infection Control

The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across every vertical market. As some jurisdictions begin phasing toward reopening, many of our clients have asked us what they can do to make their buildings feel safe …

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Elevator Emergency Preparedness Guide: Hurricane Zone

While we can’t predict exactly what will happen during any given hurricane season, you can take proactive steps before, during, and after a storm to protect investments in your building’s infrastructure and equipment like elevator …

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Healthcare Design: Guidelines for Infection Control

No work is more important right now than what’s done in healthcare environments. Within these spaces, preventative, restorative, and essential care is provided. COVID-19 has introduced a new set of challenges for infection control within …

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Health & Wellness Design: Guidelines for Infection Control

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the health and wellness industry, including fitness studios, gyms, and spas, have closed their doors to protect patrons from contracting and/or spreading the virus. The nature of these spaces presents …

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Preparing Your Elevators for Infection Control

Implementing infection control technologies and strategies throughout your building, including elevators and conveyance systems, is key to creating safe facilities as the world looks toward a post-pandemic future. Research has shown the three main modes …

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Engineer-Led Design-Build: Better Than Standard Project Delivery?

At Henderson Building Solutions, we believe in a better process with our construction management delivery method. Running a facility isn’t easy. Most of our clients spend their days putting out fires, wishing they had a …

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Preparing Construction Projects Now for Surge After COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the construction industry in many ways. Measures have been taken to protect our health and wellbeing as citizens, which has caused some projects to pause and delayed start dates for …

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Optimizing Your Venue During This Unprecedented Time

Without question, we’re facing a trying time as the world copes with the spread of COVID-19 and its fallout. As we all adjust to our new “normal” centered around social distancing, we’ve seen several venues …

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How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Power Grid

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on most people’s lives, affecting how we live, work, and play. But it’s also having an impact on our country’s electrical power grid. Over the last few …

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Infection Control Technologies for Building Design

The recent spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought several new questions to the forefront with respect to the design and operation of the buildings in which we spend much of our time, specifically …

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Construction State of the Market

3.25.2020 The world as we know it has changed dramatically over the past couple of weeks, but construction is considered essential to health and safety, and we must agree. That means things for us are …

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Elevator Modernization, There’s Levels to This

Elevators are complex and require specialized expertise to operate and maintain; in fact, most facilities have to work through a third-party service provider to address elevator modernization and equipment issues. Everything, including the doors, shaft, …

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Healthcare Delivery, The Built Environment, & Key Takeaways

For the last few years, #TeamHenderson has participated in Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s Annual Healthcare Design & Construction Symposium. The schedule is always packed with experts from every area of the industry. Over the course …

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What is a Facility Condition Assessment?

There is a fundamental balance between functionality and maintenance. When something happens to disrupt either one, the operation of the facility is at risk. Maybe you’re faced with functional issues like consistent hot/cold calls or …

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What makes building commissioning successful on a project?

Building commissioning has evolved over the last two decades. The continuous development of the construction industry combined with the Great Recession has left the impression that commissioning is a commodity-based service to be engaged as …

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How Do I Choose A Good Commissioning Agent?

Throughout this series we’ve established the importance of building commissioning. Now we’re looking at the characteristics of a good commissioning agent and how to identify them in the procurement process. In our first piece, What You …

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What Matters Most in Your Medical Gas Replacement

Medical gas systems serve healthcare facilities by providing gases that are life-sustaining (oxygen), critical-use (medical air), or suction (vacuum) for patients. These systems are often centrally located and away from patients. If medical air compressors …

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Why Do I Need Commissioning On My Project?

As building systems become more reliant on technology, it is making building commissioning more important than ever. The jump from pneumatic controls to direct digital controls (DDC) in the 1990s was only the beginning. As …

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