The new pediatric infusion center at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center captured the top spot in the Blue Ribbon Awards for the region’s best real estate projects at an event hosted by CREW-CT, a group that honors the achievements of women in commercial real estate.
“Connecticut Children’s new Infusion Center is a study in imagination and investment in the patient experience,” read a statement announcing the award. Tecton Architects, C.E. Floyd Co., Giuffrida Engineering and Dimensional Innovations partnered with the hospital on the project.
Design features including LEDs that create a “mystical illusion” of a forest and waterfalls and a waiting room set under screens projecting a canopy of trees were celebrated by the organization, along with virtual reality technology that allows patients to choose backdrops as they undergo treatments.
The new infusion center opened in 2019 and treats an estimated 3,400 patients a year from age 4 to young adulthood.
Attendees at the virtual awards ceremony on Oct. 5 also chose the infusion center project for the People’s Choice award.
The 25th annual CREW-CT Blue Ribbon Awards also honored Hartford’s Weaver High School as the top project in the education sector; the Otis Service Center in Bloomfield as the best industrial project; Montgomery Mill in Windsor Locks for best adaptive re-use project; the renovation of the University of St. Joseph’s McGovern Hall as best the interior design project; and the Joseph R. Ensign House renovation as the year’s best historic project.
