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Space standardisation and flexibility on healthcare refurbishment
conference contribution
posted on 2017-01-12, 14:55 authored by Ahmad M. Ahmad, Andrew Price, Peter Demian, Jun LuOne of the most common features and aims of a
flexible solution is to help all stakeholders throughout
the lifecycle of a healthcare facility, own or take (full
or part) responsibility of reducing, mitigating or
abating the redundancy impacts throughout a
building’s lifecycle with the integration of flexibility
and standardisation into healthcare refurbishment,
this can be achieved effectively with task partitioning.
This paper has acknowledged that there are barriers
to task partitioning. Flexibility and standardisation
strategies have been implemented globally across
different sectors and industries. Refurbishment is
usually undertaken to improve the current state or
functionality of a building in order to extend its
valuable life span. Flexible designs are intended to
provide future proof solutions. This requires
providing the ability to adapt to unforeseen future
changes at a specific place and time. Standardisation
can and should be used to improve efficiency and
reduce errors, it has been implemented in many
manufacturing processes such as the automobile
industry, but the question is how will it impact
buildings especially existing healthcare spaces?
This paper is aimed at identifying the impact of
space standardisation and flexibility on healthcare
refurbishment, with the view to identifying best
practice and prescribing possible processes for
integrating and optimising space standardisation and
flexibility during the refurbishment of healthcare
facilities.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
the Joint Conference of CIB W104 and W110, Architecture in the Fourth Dimension, Open Building Conference,Pages
250 - 257 (8)Citation
AHMAD, A. ... et al., 2011. Space standardisation and flexibility on healthcare refurbishment. IN: Proceedings of 2011 Joint Conference of CIB-W104 and CIB-W110: Architecture in the Fourth Dimension, Boston, United States, 15-17 November 2011, pp.250-257.Publisher
Conseil International du BâtimentVersion
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