Designer Roundtable - Environments That Heal
Hoefer Welker’s Director of Interiors, Tiffany Kalloor, was featured in Healthcare Construction + Operations magazine’s Designer Roundtable:...
Resiliency has become a buzzword in sustainability circles and the green industry. Although used often, resiliency has many connotations and means different things. Recently, resiliency has been paired alongside climate change. According to the Resilient Design Institute, resilience is “the capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to maintain or regain functionality and vitality in the face of stress or disturbance.” In the context of architectural design, resiliency refers to the design intent of ensuring a structure’s ability to withstand environmental, sociopolitical, financial, and cultural impacts.
When contemplating resilient design, more and more questions continue to emerge. How should design best practices and standards be revised if 100-year storms are now happening every 10 years? It is a good question to ask, but is weather the biggest adversary in the pursuit of resilience? Or are there other factors one needs to ‘future-proof’ the buildings from?
Hoefer Welker’s Director of Interiors, Tiffany Kalloor, was featured in Healthcare Construction + Operations magazine’s Designer Roundtable:...
We’re proud to celebrate Shannon, Project Architect in our Civic Studio, for being named to ENR Midwest’s 2026 Top Young Professionals! This honor...
Hoefer Welker congratulates Mara Sabatini, Senior Project Manager in our Healthcare Studio, on being named to BD+C’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2025. This...