Emergency architecture. Modular construction of healthcare facilities as a response to pandemic outbreak

Smolova, Marina; Smolova, Daria

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127401013

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“…It is also reported that the architectural designs of the hospitals took a significant share of the pandemic in the Tugela Ferry outbreak in South Africa in 2006, which showed the importance of facility design to expand hospitalization [12]. Hospitals must be built and designed using strong human-factor concepts; they must also be able to adapt to emerging problems and urgent demands, as well as accommodate future requirements, particularly when dealing with emergency situations such as COVID-19 [13][14][15][16]. The implications are that the well-being and health of humans are strongly linked with constructed environments.…”

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A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic

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Sustainable design methods aim to obtain architectural solutions that assure the coexistence and welfare of human beings, inorganic structures, and living things that constitute ecosystems. The novel coronavirus emergence, inadequate vaccines against the present severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-(SARS-CoV-2), and increases in microbial resistance have made it essential to review the preventative approaches used during pre-antibiotic periods. Apart from low carbon emissions and energy, sustainable architecture for facilities, building designs, and digital modeling should incorporate design approaches to confront the impacts of communicable infections. This review aims to determine how architectural design can protect people and employees from harm; it models viewpoints to highlight the architects’ roles in combating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and designing guidelines as a biomedical system for policymakers. The goals include exploring the hospital architecture evolution and the connection between architectural space and communicable infections and recommending design and digital modeling strategies to improve infection prevention and controls. Based on a wide-ranging literature review, it was found that design methods have often played important roles in the prevention and control of infectious diseases and could be a solution for combating the wide spread of the novel coronavirus or coronavirus variants or delta.

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“…accommodate future requirements, particularly when dealing with emergency situations such as COVID-19 [13][14][15][16]. The implications are that the well-being and health of humans are strongly linked with constructed environments.…”

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A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…A whole life-cycle approach to the healthcare facility operation is needed considering the rapid and constant alterations of healthcare environments resulting from transformations in medicine, technology and organizational changes [ 8 ]. Healthcare buildings must be planned and designed based on sound human factors principles and capable to accommodate current problems and needs, adapt to speedy transformations and respond to contemporary and future necessities, especially while facing emergency issues such as COVID-19 [ 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Modular and fast construction, repurposing of spaces and equipment of temporary settings have emerged as approaches to manage the urgent need for flexible and resilient solutions [ 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

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Flexibility during the COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Healthcare Facility Assessment Tools for Resilient Evaluation

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Healthcare facilities are facing huge challenges due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Around the world, national healthcare contingency plans have struggled to cope with the population health impact of COVID-19, with healthcare facilities and critical care systems buckling under the extraordinary pressures. COVID-19 has starkly highlighted the lack of reliable operational tools for assessing the level sof flexibility of a hospital building to support strategic and agile decision making. The aim of this study was to modify, improve and test an existing assessment tool for evaluating hospital facilities flexibility and resilience. We followed a five-step process for collecting data by (i) doing a literature review about flexibility principles and strategies, (ii) reviewing healthcare design guidelines, (iii) examining international healthcare facilities case studies, (iv) conducting a critical review and optimization of the existing tool, and (v) assessing the usability of the evaluation tool. The new version of the OFAT framework (Optimized Flexibility Assessment Tool) is composed of nine evaluation parameters and subdivided into measurable variables with scores ranging from 0 to 10. The pilot testing of case studies enabled the assessment and verification the OFAT validity and reliability in support of decision makers in addressing flexibility of hospital design and/or operations. Healthcare buildings need to be designed and built based on principles of flexibility to accommodate current healthcare operations, adapting to time-sensitive physical transformations and responding to contemporary and future public health emergencies.

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“…The hospital included isolating units' of 1600 beds located on a 79900 m2 covering the area of 21.97 ha. To reduce the workload and accelerate the project, engineers and architects have used modular prefabricated systems [10]. The two hospitals can be built in a short time because they use prefabricated materials which are expected to immediately accommodate patients infected with the COVID-19 virus during an emergency due to its wider spread.…”

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“…Furthermore, there is prefabricated concrete applied to the foundation, prefabricated panels for walls and roofs. All hospital components are pre-assembled at the factory [10]. The installation process for a hospital ward is shown in Figure 2.…”

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The Role of Prefabricated Materials in Architecture During the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic

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The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze how big the role of prefabricated materials in increasing construction efficiency in architecture, especially in the post-pandemic era. This research was conducted using qualitative methods because it relates to the views of researchers regarding to the relationship between prefabricated materials and post-pandemic phenomenon. The results obtained from this research are the application of prefabricated material technology that can help the construction process in architecture to be faster in several aspects. The presence of prefabricated materials in architecture, especially post-pandemic, can make the construction process faster in terms of time and installation. The presence of prefabricated materials in architecture, especially post-pandemic, can make the construction process faster in terms of time and installation. Therefore, the use of prefabricated materials is very well applied both during the pandemic and post-pandemic because it can break down the processing time faster so as to minimize the crowd of workers in the field. The final result of this research is to find out how big the role of prefabricated materials in architecture is to make work in the field more efficient and minimize crowds during the pandemic or post-pandemic period. We hope that this research can be useful for the architectural world regarding the advantages of applying prefabricated materials during the pandemic and post-pandemic era.

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Emergency architecture. Modular construction of healthcare facilities as a response to pandemic outbreak

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic

A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic

Flexibility during the COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Healthcare Facility Assessment Tools for Resilient Evaluation

The Role of Prefabricated Materials in Architecture During the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic

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