The archive at NGH covers the 275 years of the hospital’s operation, and Walking in the Footsteps of Others offers a dip into the wealth of information regarding children’s health care during that ...history. From this beginning, Walking in the Footsteps of Others touches on a wide variety of topics, including the hospital’s herb and vegetable gardens, patient nutrition, the hospital’s role in safeguarding children from harm and neglect, the overall costs of the hospital’s operation (there is a nice self-aware bit about ‘everyone’s favorite topic, health economics’), the gradual professionalisation of the nursing staff, the establishment of a fund for the care of local indigent children, and the history of smallpox and other vaccinations at NGH. Along the way, the Little Professors share archival films of hospital operations from the 1930s through to the 1960s, and they highlight the growth of innovative services like care for premature infants and treatments for jaundice in newborns, as well as the Childhood Development Centre, which opened in 1974.
...Walks Like Others delves into the history of the Northampton Crippled Children’s Fund (NCCF), which helped to provide ongoing medical treatment to poor children with physical difficulties from its ...inception in 1893 until it was made permanent in 1925 with the opening of the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital. Just after the turn of the century, Northampton was a light industrial town with large numbers of indigent residents without the resources to maintain a healthy diet or to pay for medical treatment in cases of illness or injury. ...organisers set about establishing a fund that could support the ongoing needs of young patients.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the roadmapping methodology and its application to concrete prefabricated housing in Australia.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper describes the ...concrete and housing industries of Australia collaboration in a project to develop a technology and innovation roadmap that will advance the concrete industry's supply chain capabilities by identifying and mapping innovation necessary for prefabricated concrete house construction. The roadmap lays out what is necessary for an off‐site systems‐based approach to housing construction in Australia. The systems‐based approach to prefabricated concrete products is a relatively new and developing extension of the concrete industry supply chain in Australia. New manufacturing technologies and innovations, which are emerging locally and from overseas, make these potential extensions possible. For the long‐term sustainability of the concrete industry, it is critical that it better understands how to adopt cooperative innovations in prefabrication to realise these benefits in the housing industry and advance Australia's competitiveness. The first phase of the mapping involved the development of an industry‐maturity model that determined the current state of the industry, and plotted this against the desired route for the future. Numerous industry‐based workshops and interviews gathered the views of the industry towards existing concrete housing systems, and where their main difficulties are in relation to adoption. Using these data, a technology roadmap is developed, together with three options on how these might be realised using the roadmap. The options offered through the roadmapping process form the basis for ongoing experimental trials of concrete houses in the major cities of Australia.
Findings
The system‐based approach to prefabrication is seen as innovative and the industry needs to understand how to adopt cooperative innovations in prefabrication in order to be competitive.
Originality/value
The paper offers insights into the technology roadmapping process in Australia, offering an exciting prospect for moving the industry into a new model of delivery.
Ligand-to-ligand charge-transfer photochemistry Wang, Yingsheng; Hauser, Brian T; Rooney, Michael M ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
06/1993, Letnik:
115, Številka:
13
Journal Article
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the roadmapping methodology and its application to concrete prefabricated housing in Australia.Design methodology approach - The paper describes the ...concrete and housing industries of Australia collaboration in a project to develop a technology and innovation roadmap that will advance the concrete industry's supply chain capabilities by identifying and mapping innovation necessary for prefabricated concrete house construction. The roadmap lays out what is necessary for an off-site systems-based approach to housing construction in Australia. The systems-based approach to prefabricated concrete products is a relatively new and developing extension of the concrete industry supply chain in Australia. New manufacturing technologies and innovations, which are emerging locally and from overseas, make these potential extensions possible. For the long-term sustainability of the concrete industry, it is critical that it better understands how to adopt cooperative innovations in prefabrication to realise these benefits in the housing industry and advance Australia's competitiveness. The first phase of the mapping involved the development of an industry-maturity model that determined the current state of the industry, and plotted this against the desired route for the future. Numerous industry-based workshops and interviews gathered the views of the industry towards existing concrete housing systems, and where their main difficulties are in relation to adoption. Using these data, a technology roadmap is developed, together with three options on how these might be realised using the roadmap. The options offered through the roadmapping process form the basis for ongoing experimental trials of concrete houses in the major cities of Australia.Findings - The system-based approach to prefabrication is seen as innovative and the industry needs to understand how to adopt cooperative innovations in prefabrication in order to be competitive.Originality value - The paper offers insights into the technology roadmapping process in Australia, offering an exciting prospect for moving the industry into a new model of delivery.
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