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Publicity: Huntsman Cancer Institute Among Top Ten Most Beautiful Hospitals in Nation

Soliant Health has hosted a competition to find the most beautiful hospitals in the USA for ten years. In 2019, the Nexus designed Huntsman Cancer Institute came in as the ninth most beautiful hospital in the nation. See the full top 20 list here.

A moving essay written by a hospital volunteer, nominating the Huntsman Cancer Institute for this recognition reads:

When you walk into the hospital, often to the sound of the grand piano being played in the lobby, the beauty almost takes your breath away. The architecture is enhanced by artworks in the halls, lobbies, and public areas. Hospital rooms provide serene views of the Salt Lake Valley or the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, which are covered in a blanket of sage, grasses, and wildflowers.

James Pehkonen, Hospital Volunteer

Arch Nexus is grateful for the opportunity to have designed each phase of the world class cancer treatment facility. We are humbled by the generosity and innovation of the Huntsman Foundation and the progress they continue to make toward eradicating cancer.

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News: Design Firm of the Year

Arch Nexus is honored to be named the 2019 Design Firm of the Year, by ENR Mountain States. This video produced by ENR shares some of the projects and accomplishments the award is based on.

 

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Thought Leadership: Building Resilience 19

The world is changing. Storms are getting more extreme; heat waves are becoming more frequent; sea level rise is underway; drought is occurring more regularly; dependable municipal water supplies are at risk; wildfires are becoming more intense; and the people most affected by these disruptions tend to be those who face the greatest economic challenges in responding.

At the same time, forward-looking companies, organizations, agencies, and individuals recognize that resilient design is vital to our future—and a critical component of social equity and sustainable building practices. The urgency of the situation is calling these citizens to action.

Building Resilience 2019 will catalyze this emerging movement. It is the first national gathering of building industry professionals focused exclusively on how to create more resilient buildings and communities. Participants will engage in professionally facilitated, outcome-focused working sessions. The Friday afternoon session is led by Nexus President, Kenner Kingston. In Microgrids and Backup Power, attendees will explore the growing intensity and frequency of storms, wildfires, and other disturbances and why creating more resilient power systems is increasingly important. This session focuses on islandable, resilient power systems, both at a building scale and community scale.

Visit buildingresilience.living-future.org for more details and registration.

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News: Nexus Builds in the News

After months of construction, employees at Architectural Nexus completed building a tiny home intended to help an individual facing homelessness in Seattle. Housing security advocates, environmental groups and public leaders were invited to view the newly built tiny home at the Arch Nexus Salt Lake City office last week, before it was shipped to Washington. The Deseret News reported on the project, it’s uniquely sustainable features and what Nexus Builds aspires to do next. Read the full article here.

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News: From Salt Lake City to Seattle, Nexus Builds

Since March of 2019, over 120 different employees at Arch Nexus have donated hundreds of hours, gaining hands on experience while creating a 200 square foot home that will provide housing for a previously homeless individual. Finishing touches were added and the house was prepped for travel on Thursday. The day has come to bid farewell to the tiny home, as it makes its journey from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Seattle, Washington. Stay posted as we follow its voyage and final placement! #NexusBuilds

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Thought Leadership: Arch Nexus SAC Receives Hunter-Welborn Circle of Excellence Award

Hunter Industries came for a visit to present the Hunter-Welborn Circle of Excellence Award to Arch Nexus SAC. We had a great conversation with their Director of Sustainability regarding the like-mindedness of our two companies and how this award was created to highlight organizations that make social and environmental responsibility a priority.

Hunter is striving to have zero-waste factories and currently has achieved 98.5% of their goal, with their largest challenge being electronic controller end of life. One example of their effort to combat this problem has been to create collection programs that intercept controllers destined for the landfill and reroutes them to Blue Star Recyclers. Blue Star Recyclers is a social enterprise out of Colorado which mission is recycling electronics and other materials to create jobs for people with autism and other disabilities.

The award itself was created from 100% recycled waste from their factories. Thank you for the honor, Hunter Industries!

 

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News: Arch Nexus Builds Tiny Home to Fight Homelessness

For a number of years we have supported a culture of philanthropy by giving additional leave days to employees for volunteering to support a cause they believe in. This year we pooled our collective efforts and talents to tackle the issue of homelessness through a Seattle Based visionary program known as The BLOCK Project. The program invites communities into the task of ending homelessness by placing a 125 square foot tiny home on every residentially zoned block in the City of Seattle.

Here at Arch Nexus, we have contributed by leveraging our own philanthropy program as well as their experience in designing environmentally regenerative dwellings to build and donate a BLOCK Home that is also a Certified Living Building. Over the past 6 months we have put literal blood, sweat, and tears into this project.

The time to send this tiny home on to a host family in Seattle has come. A celebration held at Arch Nexus today, gave guests the opportunity to step inside and see the home. On the morning of October 31st the structure will be prepped for its journey, hoisted onto a truck, and bid farewell as it travels to Seattle.

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News: Urban Agriculture at Sutter Middle School

To fulfill the urban agriculture imperative of a Certified Living Building, Arch Nexus SAC utilized the concept of scale jumping. This allowed for a sustainable garden to be implemented at nearby Sutter Middle School. Check out recent news coverage of the school garden from Good Day Sacramento.

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News: SLC Design Week 2019

We’re halfway through Salt Lake City Design Week. On Tuesday evening Arch Nexus President, Kenner Kingston participated in a panel discussion after a screening of the feature documentary: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. The film is a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet.

Many more design week events will be held through Saturday, check out the full lineup here.

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Uncategorized: 2019 SLCO Corporate Games

The 2019 SLCO Summer Corporate Games recently wrapped up with a hard earned, second place trophy for Arch Nexus SLC. More importantly, new friendships were formed, teamwork skills strengthened, generous community service provided and participants had FUN.

Arch Nexus took part in a total of 28 events, taking home the gold in horseshoe and men’s golf and men’s bowling. Additionally, Nexus donated 22 units of blood to ARUP Blood Services and 732 pounds of food was collected for the Utah Food Bank.

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