Ultra-rapid delivery of specialty field hospitals to combat COVID-19: Lessons learned from the Leishenshan Hospital project in Wuhan

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward COVID-19 Among Construction Industry Practitioners in China

“…The pandemic has also seriously affected many industries, and the construction industry is no exception. Many construction projects in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, have been suspended because of the city-wide shutdown of all non-essential work and restriction of public transportation that led to a shortage of essential materials and skilled practitioners ( 2 ). Although regions are able to continue their construction projects, the inherent labor-intensive nature of construction project causes additional challenges due to the onsite necessity of construction task delivery and the constraints on the feasibility of social distancing on an active jobsite.…”

The design of safe classrooms of educational buildings for facing contagions and transmission of diseases: A novel approach combining audits, calibrated energy models, building performance (BPS) and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations

“…Specifically as regards to the COVID-19 hospitals created in Wuhan just during the peak of the pandemic (January 2020) and thus the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals, Luo et al . [22] presented the lesson learned from these design and construction, ultra-rapid to be ready in less than 12 days for facing the sanitary emergency in Hubei. By means of a BIM approach, and thus an integrated, architectural, engineering and service design, the Leishenshan Hospital was designed for having wards in negative pressure compared to the surroundings, to isolate the pathogens.…”

Modeling working shifts in construction projects using an agent-based approach to minimize the spread of COVID-19

“…The pandemic, due to COVID-19, has impacted our society in its entirety. It has modified the way people relate with each other (e.g., social distancing) and how people interact with their natural and built environment (e.g., quarantines, virtual activities); thus, creating the need to adapt the existing built environment to the pandemic’s unprecedented requirements [ 1 , 2 ], such as quickly building healthcare facilities to combat COVID-19 [ 3 ]. The construction industry has been recognized as a key player in shaping the existing built environment [ [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] ].…”

“…As the spread of COVID-19 has continued worldwide, research studies have started to report challenges that workers may face while performing their jobs during the pandemic context (e.g., [ 14 , 15 ]. Of note, a few studies have focused on the challenges that COVID-19 may have on construction workers in the current pandemic context [ 3 , 11 , 16 ]. For instance [ 11 ], proposed a model to study how the spread of COVID-19 among construction workers may impact the construction workforce’s planning during a project.…”