Hospitals
Case study: Hospital pivots to adjust for COVID-19
For the Parkview Regional Medical Center Core Tower expansion, engineers were able to modify design to accommodate COVID-19 patients as the project was in progress
Navigating hospital ventilation design during COVID-19
COVID-19 has impacted ventilation design considerations in health care settings in a prominent way
Four highlights from healthcare design and construction symposium
Healthcare has radically changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s Annual Healthcare Design & Construction Symposium addressed several changes currently happening.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: August 31 to September 6, 2020
Read the best articles from the past week. Resilient hospital design, MEP Giants revenue, college campuses, pandemic control and Product of the Year finalists.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: August 24-30, 2020
Read the best articles from the past week. Resilient hospital design, MEP Giants revenue, college campuses, pandemic control and Product of the Year finalists.
Resilient design in health care: Four steps for surviving a crisis
Learn the basic concepts and strategic planning needed to ensure resilient design of hospitals and health care facilities to reduce risk during natural disasters and man-made threats
Case study: Hospital achieves resilient design
Well in advance of COVID-19, Silver Cross Hospital designed for resiliency measures no one could have predicted
Case study: Hospital uses displacement ventilation
A Canadian hospital addition provided efficient HVAC and reduced airborne infections
Pandemic control in high-performance buildings
High-performance building design in health care facilities may teach engineers how to design other building types
How simulation modeling can help healthcare facilities
Simulation modeling helps engineers rapidly test a number of "what if" scenarios, which is crucial for hospitals.