It's A Medical Study

The school of nursing and health services building is uniquely complimented on the campus of Golden West College in California. It has been finished since the fall semester of two thousand and eight and I am proud to say that I attended the cutting of the ribbon ceremony when it first opened. A tour was given to the members that arrived as well as Frank M. and Gertrude R. Doyle, who are the ones who supported the funding for this building given to nursing students and health services for Golden West College.

I was given the opportunity to look over the whole project details from interior spaces and codes to the structural materials used to keep this building standing. It was designed by Perkins & Will creating a place structurally stable as well as being properly up to code for medical uses and spaces on the interior. The school of nursing and health services building was built to allow eligible students to take advantage of our popular and well known nursing program as well as identifying their own practice.

The outside of this building shows brick in the running bond pattern made of type 2 concrete. Though it is not back to back and revealed on the interior, you still get the image of a sturdy material. Being limited to my requests of touring the inside of rooms on the upper levels, i was able to sneak up the stairs and capture what they call translucent glass for some of the windows used. This glass allowed natural light to come in, but not letting the inside space get too hot from the sun shining in. This room is occupied for demonstrations on fake patients and instruments. From the inside you can see out clearly as the outside keeps you from seeing in on any tasks being done.

Stairs on both sides for students to exit and enter their studies are made from the medium carbon of A-36. This strong material creates stability for any galvinated corrosion and resistance to any natural disasters. Its non slip strips on the edge of each step is good for all weather conditions that make the climb safer since it is an outside asset to the design.

Many rooms i was able to glance at used carpet tiles. I thought this was a good advantage making it easier to replace if any damage were to occur on one piece rather than replacing the entire space's flooring. The main reception area had one restroom, which used ceramic tile as the flooring. It was a non-absorbent type that was not slippery and complimented the wall tiles in a vertical pattern.

As I was looking over the blueprints for this project, Austin was of great help in the facilities building and explained to me how I can find what detail from abbreviation codes in this huge book and told me more about the inside where I was not able to see for myself. There are a few rooms that are painted in vibrant colors for testing and placing certain patients in and allow for studies and student practice, which I think is key for this program. As close as you can make to a real hospital, this building comes close in certain limits of how nursing majors can transition to real patients they will be treating.

The main receptionist desk was made with a high resin material panels as well as in the skills lab section of the nurse building. There was a brown finish around parts of the exterior. Made with wood veneer, its weather resistant philosophy looks the part and works well with keeping the place a significant creation to attend to.

Designing a space for medical uses is very code oriented since there are certain requirements that need tending to, which make this a neat project to look into because I can find out why specific materials are used any why. Especially since real patients are checked in for minor health reasons makes it all the more real for students to obtain the condition for their profession. I would say material choices were used successfully making this building safe and realistic.

(my source was verbal)