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1. GREEN BUILDING INDEX
& UNIVERSAL DESIGN
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
NOOR AIZA BINTI HASSAN . 119289

2. Rush University Medical Center
Night view in Chicago

3. LOCATION PLAN
Rush University Medical Center | 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, Illinois 60612 - located in corner of Ashland Avenue
and Harrison Street that adjacent to existing Atrium Building.

4. RUSH BUILDING
Rush’s new complex is a two-sided design. Its base
remains boxy outside and flexible inside
while the tower above is organic in external shape and
rigidly prescribed within. The expressway façade gives
high-speed travelers a visual landmark and its street face
welcomes patients with a more pedestrian scale. And
the building’s green initiatives are sometimes obvious—
specifically in the terrarium, green roofs, and brightly
daylight spaces, while the green aspects of the high-
recycled content and carefully chosen materials are more
muted

5. Rush’s Inspiration
• The butterfly inspired shape allows more natural light to enter throughout the entire building.
• achieved Gold in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by a combination of energy
use, lighting, water use, and material use, incorporating more than 100 energy saving designs

6. LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Facts.
Conserving Water
 Water-saving use 30% less water than
conventional plumbing.
 Public bathrooms will use dual flush
toilets.
 Rainwater from green roofs will
slowly flow into city storm sewers
and reduce heat from the sun.
 Condensed moisture from air
conditioners will be used for
watering campus vegetation.
 Use of microfiber mops will save
500,000 gallons of water per year.
Conserving Energy
 The hospital’s butterfly shape and
other design features allow a large
amount of natural light into the
building, reducing the need for
electric lighting.
 Energy-efficient lighting fixtures
and bulbs are being used
throughout the hospital.

7. The Edward A. Brennan Entry Pavilion
contains a green roof garden that also includes indigenous landscaping.

8. Rush’s Green Rooftop
The rooftop gardens were designed to grow a combination of local plants that bloom in different cycles,
varying the colorful view from season to season

9. LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Facts.
Using Recycled Materials
Rush University Medical Center hospital consists of:
 About 20 percent recycled steel
 More than 20 percent of wallboard made from recycled materials
 More than 20 percent of interior wall coverings made from recycled materials
 Recycled concrete
 More than 70 percent of wooden doors made with materials harvested from
certified sustainable forests.

10. Universal Design Facts.
Entrances
 Use automatic doors that opened
using sensors detection. The doors
open by sliding to the side, to allow
unobstructed access for people in
wheelchairs and scooters.
 The grade of the slopes of ramps
barely noticeable, making it easier
for people in wheelchairs to propel
themselves up and down the ramps.
 Short term parking stalls are
accessible.
Hallways, Elevators and
Way finding
 Handrails throughout areas where
patients travel.
 Public elevators: digital display,
Braille alongside floor buttons and
audio announcements of the floor
location to accommodate people
with visual disabilities.
 Primary overhead way finding signs
(high contrast to enhance
readability.)
 Contrasting borders on the edges of
hallway carpeting and around patient
and procedure room doorways.

11. Rush’s Hallways
Handrails throughout areas where patients travel.

12. Primary overhead way finding signs

13. Universal Design Facts.
Patient Room
 Patient phones have large numbers on the
dial pad and volume controls to help
people with visual or hearing
impairments.
 Bathroom doors swing in both directions,
to enhance emergency access and to allow
people in wheelchairs to enter and leave
more easily.(5footdiameter turning radius
to allow patients in wheelchairs to
maneuver inside the room.)
 Handrails are provided between the
patient bed and the bathroom, around the
toilet and inside the shower.
 Showers have a fold down seats. no raised
border on the floor to ease patient access.
Treatment and Services
 Patient treatment carts in the
Emergency Department are height
adjustable.
 Patient registration counters and
electronic information signs are at
a level that is accessible for people
in wheelchairs.

14. Toilet & Braille Primary way finding signs
Helps disable people

15. Patient’s Bed
Friendly user to disable people that really helps patient to move with hang on the handrails around the bed.

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