PHILOSOPHY Sustainability Maximizing sustainability in our design is part of WHR�s approach to each project. The first step we take is to evaluate applicable sustainable design influences for the project, to determine possible cost and schedule impacts . ...more
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Edge-City Hospitals: New Communities, New Facilities Planning and design of Memorial Hermann's new hospitals in Houston's �edge-city� communities of Katy and Sugar Land, Texas by Bill Ganshirt, AIA and Mark Vaughan, AIA
The cities of Katy and Sugar Land, Texas, are near-classic examples of what Joel Garreau termed �edge cities� in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. They are among the new, self-contained suburbs of mixed-use commercial and residential properties growing and spreading just outside many of America's major cities. As two of the fastest growing such communities in the Houston area, Katy and Sugar Land are located on Highway 99�i.e., the Grand Parkway, the proposed third ring road�which at completion would traverse over 180 miles through seven counties to encircle the Greater Houston region. One segment of the road linking Interstate Highway 10 and Interstate Highway 59 is now complete. ...more
