Hospital Building Services Engineering Systems play a pivotal role in assuring resilience of hospital operation. These complicated and inter-dependent engineering systems comprising: electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, fire services, medical gas, plumbing and drainage system are supporting the very essential functions of the hospitals in the delivery of patient-care services. These systems are constantly under unpredictable challenges and disturbances, periods of overcrowding and medical response to accidents and disasters including increment weather and epidemic.
Engineering Systems Resilience makes a largely hidden contribution to ongoing hospital operation and indeed patient safety, it is not simply a success towards the threat of failure, but also on the anticipated failure, reduce failure in process, or redirect the failure pathway to easier recovery, with less disruptive or less costly and more importantly to sustain safe patient services delivery.
While hospital is an infrastructure-dependent, dynamic and operation-driven system, its resilience depends not only on built or physical infrastructure, but also on the design and functioning of non-structural, regulatory components, such as compliance of local statutory and international reference standards, risk assessment, incidents review and associated operation management. This presentation will outline how HA operates to tackle engineering resilience matters, with also the use of innovative technologies and established organizational regime from building up capacities in the perspectives of preventive, absorptive, adaptive, transformative and acquisitive cogitations, and in how resilience is cascaded through to the various building services engineering systems.
