Hospitals
Incorporating technology into healthcare facilities
The visioning, coordination and planning of technology equipment in a new hospital or major healthcare facility takes a lot of meticulous work and accuracy to get right.
How critical space testing works in health care
Critical space testing has been shown to be an effective way for health care facility managers to understand and manage the operation of their HVAC systems
Mitigating OT cybersecurity risks, enforcing best practices
Cybersecurity is becoming a major problem for operational technology (OT) users and can affect people in surprising and unexpected ways. See example and four questions to ask when developing an OT cybersecurity plan.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: February 26 to March 4, 2021
Read the best articles from the past week. Effective COVID-19 mitigation, NFPA 101 and COVID-19, scope and cost of a BAS, choosing between an ECM and VFD and NEC electrical grounding and bounding.
Addressing military treatment facility sustainment and resilience needs
Medical treatment facilities (MTFs) will need sustainment, restoration and modernization (SRM) as a key requirement to meet future standards being prioritized by the military.
Fueling performance in all types of workplaces
A roundtable discussion focused on how workplace settings on health and academic campuses can benefit just as much from strategies to refine, reprogram, and optimize them for high performance and positive employee experience
What do engineers want?
Consulting-Specifying Engineer knows the answer: Information about COVID-19 and codes and standards
Video: Healthcare Emergency Power Supply Systems Commissioning: Clearing Communication Hurdles
The coordination effort to achieve successful functional testing of a large hospital system can be overwhelming but it can be rewarding and valuable to clients if planned right.
Case study: Using a hotel as an alternate care site
According to this study, there are both challenges and solutions when converting hotel rooms to hospitals
Video: Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Case Study – Highly Effective Commissioning
This commissioning effort on two new medical office buildings for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta puts special focus on how additional effort did not sacrifice project profitability.