laboratories/Expanding Lab Space for Testing
Containment Space for PPE
Environmental & Engineering Measures
Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities
Modular Field Hospitals
Emergency Testing Considerations
Emergency Planning & Operations
Emergency Preparedness Unit
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Our medical planners and designers are familiar with healthcare crisis management and bed capacity increase for surge flexibility.
Emergency Planning
& Operations
Alternative sites of care are a clear option. We can help conduct building assessments to make decisions on new sites of care.
Our researchers are currently focused on crisis response outcome measurements and best practices for containment of patients with an infectious disease.
Our operations planning teams are currently helping clients implement strategies for the most efficient operations at sites of care and to rethink their processes to enable the safest environment for patients, staff and the public.
If possible, it can help to repurpose laboratory support rooms for testing and use mobile lab trailers on site (does not require special HVAC). Our lab planners can assist in the design of mobile testing units.
We can help in planning laboratories to make use of automated/high-throughput equipment to conduct testing at a higher volume.
Our laboratory designers and planners have experience in designing units up to biocontainment safety level 4 (BSL-4).
laboratories/Expanding Lab Space
for Testing
Screening Clinic: Tented facility for testing and treatment before entering the medical facility. Relocates triage near emergency department and physically separates patients showing symptoms.
Walk-up “Booth” Testing: Patients enter booths that are separated from a protected, negative pressure clinical workspace with attached lab.
Drive-through Testing: Tests many people quickly and reduces social contact.
Emergency Testing Considerations
We can help with master-planning for patient-throughput for newly founded operations.
Our master planners can help coordinate the care site for emergency vehicle circulation/transport, site utilities and service.
Our medical planners have developed modular, tented and built environments for surge relief.
Our designers have created plans for field hospitals comprised of isolated patient beds fabricated from shipping containers and deployed at hospital sites.
Modular Field Hospitals
We also have experience with hospital command centres,
and can assist in establishing a Regional Network Incident Command Centre.
Telehealth can assist with providing safe care in the appropriate setting, often reducing non-emergent visits to increase emergency department capacity. Virtual visits can also be provided to assist with a rapid, safe discharge to provide increased inpatient bed capacity. We have experience in this area and are available to assist.
Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities
Waiting areas for consultation should be in an open-air setting with at least two metres distance between patients. Separate placement of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients is critical.
Consultation rooms should be negative pressure and equipped with HEPA filtration systems with at least 12 air changes per hour (ACH). They should also be equipped for hand hygiene with proper waste receptacles.
Our engineers can help you evaluate MEP systems, accommodating failure scenarios, filtration and directional airflow.
Environmental & Engineering Measures
Our designers and planners have designed biocontainment units for highly-infectious disease treatment and can assist with temporary solutions that employ the same strategies.
Containment Space for PPE
Murray, Utah
Intermountain Healthcare
Separate patient corridor to reach exam rooms and staff-only centrally-located work area
Fully-equipped to handle highly-infectious diseases
Separate exam room doors for patient and staff access
Material selection based upon cleanability of surfaces
Emergency Planning & Operations
Rapid Response: Planning & Design Capabilities
Project Experience
Dedicated elevator from emergency department
Separate exam room doors for patient and staff access
Separate patient corridor to reach exam rooms and staff-only centrally-located work area
Fully-equipped to handle highly-infectious diseases
Sydney, Australia
New South Wales Biocontainment Unit
Westmead Hospital Redevelopment
Equipped with necessary infrastructure
Flexible to meet surge needs as they increase
26 Surge Tent sites designed and constructed
for forward triage
Illinois/Wisconsin (Continuing work)
Tented/Modular Pandemic Response
Advocate Aurora Health
Working directly with modular fabricator and construction manager
Planning and design for 20-patient ICU Surge Units and central support core for prefabrication and rapid construction at three locations.
Brooklyn | Mineola, New York (Continuing work)
Modular ICU Surge Units
New York Surge Relief
Project Experience
Rapid Response: Planning & Design Capabilities
How We Can Assist Our Healthcare Clients Right Now
Healthcare professionals are on the frontlines caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, while simultaneously trying to navigate the uncertainty of what the future holds for staff, patient populations, and facilities.
We’re here to help. We’ve assembled a task force of global healthcare design experts and can provide immediate assistance in the areas below.
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Within these containment environments, it is important to include anterooms and containment-level space for donning and doffing of personal protection equipment (PPE) to protect medical personnel. We can help designate the proper areas for maximum safety.
Our planners and designers can assist with the following modular testing solutions:
BSL-3 Lab
Physical Containment Level 4 Lab
Material selection based upon cleanability of surfaces
Dedicated elevator from emergency department
Our designers and planners have designed biocontainment units for highly-infectious disease treatment and can assist with temporary solutions that employ the same strategies.
Supporting trailers included for data racks and supplies
Equipped with necessary infrastructure
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Parking garage equipped to convert to pandemic centre in case of emergency. Outfitted for decontamination showers and water containment units.
Over 80 negative-pressure conversion-ready rooms, 36 in the emergency department
Toronto, Canada
Pandemic Response Plan
Humber River Hospital
Additional space available for expansion if needed
Constructed using prefabricated divider panels
Materiality consistent with infection control
144-bed temporary care facility
London, Canada
LHSC Field Hospital
London Health Sciences Centre
Additional space available for expansion if needed
Constructed using prefabricated divider panels
Materiality consistent with infection control
144-bed temporary care facility
London, Canada
LHSC Field Hospital
London Health Sciences Centre