Designing On the Triple Bottom Line in Sri Lanka

Sustainable design in connection with "workforce, economic, environmental, and catastrophic event management goals":

A public and private collaboration, the Embassy Medical Center’s (EMC) multipronged sustainability initiative includes using the presence of international firms as an educational and economic primer for local companies. With a projected completion date of January 2011, the project is being developed by Silvermere Hospitals, Ltd., and includes a 500,000-square-foot hospital and clinic, dormitory, parking structure, and two bio-anaerobic digesters.

Is a new healthcare facility really a different kind of animal in Sri Lanka?

In the United States, healthcare executives think of their facilities as a cost, as an expense. But here is a case where a facility will actually be an asset, a driver for economic development, a source of education and training, an incentive for companies to come, and attract international money through medical tourism. It’s more than just a liability and a piece of architecture. It has inherent creative potential.