Our staff has been hard at work this spring readying projects for installation in cities across the country, including Raleigh, North Carolina and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Other active projects include Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Area Community College, and hospitals in Des Moines, Iowa and Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Indiana. Look for updates in coming issues!
Two Hospital Campuses,
One Wayfinding System
Exterior wayfinding systems that Corbin Design developed for Lehigh Valley Hospital have been installed at the health network’s campuses in Muhlenberg and Cedar Crest.
The new 188-bed Muhlenberg facility hosts a range of enhanced health care services and includes a 260,000-square-foot addition that serves as the new main entrance and houses most patient services. The 195-acre Cedar Crest campus is Lehigh Valley Hospital’s largest, with a new seven-story patient care tower, three new parking decks and a new medical office building. The patient care tower was designed to win LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
Corbin’s mandate was to create clear and consistent wayfinding systems for both campuses while re-using or modifying as many of the existing signs and bases as possible. The systems use graphics incorporating the “Big Blue H” that acts as the main entrance to the Muhlenberg hospital and has become a defining icon for Lehigh Valley Hospital.
The signage for both campuses was fabricated and installed by Reed Sign Company of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
Happy Trails
Corbin is working with Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation on an expandable and economical wayfinding program for its 180 miles of greenways around Charlotte, North Carolina. We’re partnering on the project with DAWA, Inc., a Charlotte-based company that assists in sign system analysis, planning and implementation.
Signature Architectural Signage of Thomasville, North Carolina, fabricated several prototype signs, which were installed in a limited test program in October. The project went to bid in May, and the contract is expected to be awarded at the end of June.
The full system is scheduled to be installed by the end of 2008.