Healthy Concrete
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Citation
Building journal Hong Kong China, Oct, 1999, pp. 80-101
Abstract
Hospitals represent architecture at its most intricate. Few edifices have such a wide range of specific needs, and few builidings house disciplines which evolve as rapidly as medicine. When the classic flying-buttress cathedrals of Europe were built, physicians were still applying leeches and dreaming of safe anesthetics. Both architecture and medicine have come a long way since then - constant changes in medical technology and healing philosophies are a driving factor in the design and construction of Hong Kong hospitals. In this supplement, Building Journal talks to three experts on the science of constructing efficient hospitals in today's SAR.
(1) LD Asia
(a) Indeterminate hospitals
(b) Introduction to the Queen
(c) Local culture
(2) The Authority
(a) Evolution
(b) Building a healing environment
(c) Educating the community
(d) Designing the building plan
(e) The latest: TKO
(f) Management and energy savings
(g) Other trends in building materials
(3) Kwan-PTP Design Approach
(4) Hospital Authority- fast facts
(a) Mission statement
(b) The HA's corporate vision
(c) The Authority's five corporate strategies
(d) Budget
(e) Health Care Services
(f) Hygiene underfoot
(g) Safety first
(h) Access control
(i) Surgical lumens
(j) Safeguarding the infirm
Description
Building Type(s): Hospitals
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Type
Article
Format
Date
1999
Language
en