Advance Designs that Protect, Develop, and Restore Health

White Papers

FGI - The Facility Guidelines Institute​

• Guidance for Designing Health and Residential Care Facilities that Respond and Adapt to Emergency Conditions

University of Toronto Centre for Design + Health Innovation

• Pandemical Healthcare Architecture and Social Responsibility--COVID-19 and Beyond.​

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News

• Institution-based isolation could better contain the spread of COVID-19 than home-isolation: Study​

• Plummeting air pollution leads to 11,000 fewer deaths in Europe

• Smart cities project to use hyper-local mobility data to forecast disease spread

 

Projects

• Is Project Héroe the Audacious Solution Needed to Stem Future Outbreaks? By Wanda Lau 

• Nanjing Public Health Care Center, Nanjing, China

• Modular Tool Box/HOMA-Hôpital Modulaire Autonome (in French) Developed by French UIA-PHG Workgroup

• CannonDesign Creates Modular, Walk-in Booth Design for Coronavirus Testing.

• A 30-bed community health centre as per India guidelines using shipping containers. Developed by Martin Fiset.
   

Books

• An Architecture Guide to the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Volume 2

  • How can architecture contribute to the UN 17 Goals?

• Hospital 21: Breathing new Life in the 21st century Hospital​

• Annual 2020: Covid 19. by Argentine Association of Hospital Architecture and Engineering

• Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture, by Stephen Verderber (Author)
   

Guidelines

• Infrastructure Guidance for COVID-19/Alternate Care Sites.

• Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

• Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre
   

Webinars​

• ACOAIH Challenges of Hospital Design by COVID-19 (in Spanish) Friday, May 29, 2020

• Managing Healthcare Construction During COVID-19 Crisis (recorded)

 

Videos

• Texas A&M University Architecture for Health Lecture Series: COVID-19 Pandemic: Ongoing Lessons Learned

• One Day with military nurses in the ICU at Huoshenshan Hospital (video)

• Timelapse shows creation of London virus hospital..