Arup’s modular emergency healthcare solution, CareBox, can be deployed rapidly wherever it’s needed. Phil Lattimore finds out how it works, and looks at how other designs have responded to increasing knowledge of how Covid-19 is transmitted
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Health provider: The Samson Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic
With significant variation in seasonal temperatures and occupant density, the HVAC systems modelled at the Samson Pavilion in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, by Foster + Partners had to be highly flexible. This was borne out by its recent conversion into a Covid-19 surge hospital, as Phil Lattimore found out
Rapid response: delivering a 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale Hospital in nine days
When ExCeL was chosen as the site for an NHS Nightingale Hospital, the project team had nine days to build a 4,000-bed critical care facility ahead of the expected surge in London’s Covid-19 cases. Andy Pearson talks to the key engineers