Architect Selected to Write “Hospital Design and Construction” Column

For Immediate Release (02/01/09)

Bernstein & Associates, Architects is pleased that the firm principal, well-known healthcare and hospital architect --- William N. Bernstein, AIA --- has been selected to write a column entitled “Hospital Design and Construction” for the publication Hospital Newspaper.

The column will focus on the many aspects of specialized design and construction required by hospitals and healthcare facilities, as they improve their aging hospital infrastructure and/or add new programs and technologies to stay up to date with the fast moving world of the healthcare marketplace.

Mr. Bernstein is well equipped to write the column. He was educated at the Yale University School of Architecture, where he received a Master of Architecture. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, American College of Healthcare Architects, Construction Specification Institute and Project Management Institute. He is one of the few architects in the United States to receive the American Hospital Association Construction Management Certificate. He has written many articles on hospital and healthcare design and construction, and his healthcare and lab projects have won numerous awards and been published widely.

In addition, Mr. Bernstein is a principal of two healthcare and lab specialty companies: a healthcare and laboratory architecture firm --- Bernstein & Associates, Architects (http://www.bernarch.com/) --- and a healthcare and lab project management firm --- Empire Projects, Inc. (http://www.empireprojects.com/).

About Bernstein & Associates, Architects: Founded in 1990, this company is an award-winning architectural firm specializing in healthcare and laboratories. For more information about hospital and lab design and construction, please contact:
William N. Bernstein, AIA --- Principal --- Bernstein & Associates, Architects – PLLC --- 59 West 19th Street - 6A New York, NY 10011 --- Office: 212.463.8200 --- Fax: 212.463.9898 --- Email: info@bernarch.com --- website: http://www.bernarch.com/

About Empire Projects, Inc.: Founded in 2003, this company is a project management and owner’s representative firm specializing in healthcare and laboratories.

For Hospital Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-hospitals/

For more information about project management of hospital and lab design and construction projects, please contact:
William N. Bernstein, AIA --- President --- Empire Projects, Inc. --- 59 West 19th Street - 6A New York, NY 10011 --- Office: 212.463.0800 --- Fax: 212.463.9898 --- Email: info@empireprojects.com --- website: http://www.empireprojects.com/