Steve Langston AIA, ACHA, EDAC, LEED AP, of RLF, a leading Winter Park-based architecture, engineering and interior design firm, recently earned his evidence-based design accreditation and certification (EDAC) from The Center for Health Design. The accreditation has been offered for just over a year and has been awarded to less than 900 professionals to date.
According to Langston, the information he learned from The Center for Health Design can be applied to non-healthcare projects, as well. “New and existing projects can be improved using these tools. But, the EDAC principles remain very important in the healthcare industry because every design decision can significantly influence the environment of care and healthcare results.”
Mounting scientific evidence supports the Evidence-Based Design approach to healthcare facility design and its correlation to successful patient outcomes. The EDAC accreditation tests individual knowledge and understanding of how to base healthcare building design decisions on credible research evidence and project evaluation results.
Langston has received national, state and local accolades for his work, including the 2003 AIA-AAH/Modern Healthcare Honorable Mention; and the 2003 Healthcare Design Award, Certificate of Merit from the Center for Health Design for the MD Anderson Cancer Center – Orlando. He also won the 2010 AIA Orlando Design Award for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Orlando located in Lake Nona.
EDAC’s mission is to develop a community of accredited industry individuals through education and assessment of an evidence-based design process. For more information about the program, visit www.healthdesign.org/edac.
