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infections. While it was recognised during the pandemic that healthcare facilities lacked the infrastructure design to be converted quickly and efficiently to meet infection control needs, new designs must have those requirements. As a result, the pandemic has triggered a dramatic need for building controls, improved air quality, increased HVAC capacity and overall facility resilience. Futureproofing is now part of the planning lexicons of most health systems. Every aspect of each facility, from arrival to discharge, is reviewed and reconsidered during the design of new or renovated spaces.
During the pandemic, emergency
facilities were built very quickly. The design and build speed mentality now permeates all hospitals and healthcare projects internationally, even if there is no real consensus on which delivery method is the most efficient. In this regard, in countries where it is
possible, more new delivery models are being developed that can accelerate projects. These include integrated project delivery (IPD), progressive design build (PDB) and modular design and construction (MDC). The fixed point is that build projects will fall within budget and on schedule.
New tools for a new time The pandemic has made it more difficult to keep up with the demands of healthcare companies and hospitals. To this end, prefabrication and modularity have become important tools. Even if we return to a new normal, some principles will be fixed points in imagining the places of territorial and hospital healthcare. Telemedicine will continue to expand
and the evolution of telemedicine could establish new patient-health system relationships especially in rural areas where services are often scarce. It will be possible to create real ‘command centres’ that are powering telemedicine solutions, allowing doctors from all over the world to consult and maintain visibility on the
The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful reminder that we live in a highly complex and unpredictable world and that, when the future is unknown, it is necessary to create resilience and agility
condition of a remote patient and to act as a ‘central call centre’ for the facility or the system. The energy consumption of hospitals is typically three times that of other commercial buildings and attention must certainly be paid to controlling and ideally limiting/reducing energy consumption.
Conclusion Today, we have to work with new technologies, new project management tools and we have to be agile in the way we work and in how we communicate, with new working model as well as new engineering processes. We need to develop flexible working systems, whether it is remote work or up-skilling to improve operation practices. Above all, we have to keep our people
safe, inside and outside our healthcare systems and hospitals, from COVID-19 and future pandemics and we have to do that without harming our planet and ecosystems. We also have to guarantee that we
do not compromise our fight against climate change in our preparation against pandemics. This is our great challenge.
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