Spend a little time talking with our Vice President of Product Development, Bruce Bickford, and you’ll quickly realize just how deeply ingrained safety is into our design program. Keeping patients and staff safe during an occupied renovation is at the core of our mission. The pandemic certainly heightened infection prevention ...
ASTM E119, ASTM E84 and Fire-Rated Barriers: What You Need to Know
When conducting an occupied renovation in a hospital, a one-hour fire-rated temporary construction wall is often required by national or regional jurisdictions, particularly when a working sprinkler system is not in place. Requirements and testing specifications can vary by state, city, hospital and even by project - and can ...
Changes You May Have Missed with Modular Temporary Containment for Healthcare
It’s easy to miss the many important changes with modular temporary containment for occupied healthcare renovations. And, the measuring sticks for grading temporary containment have advanced – significantly – and quickly. We talk about this a lot around here - and with our customers. We asked our VP of Business Development (and ...
5 Fire Safety Questions Answered by Josh The Fire Geek
We recently surveyed our customers and email subscribers about safety during hospital renovation and maintenance projects. Our survey asked respondents to describe which safety issues they feel are most commonly overlooked before and directly after a project starts; which safety concerns keep them up at night - and for one ...
SRA and ICRA: New Developments in Healthcare Construction Safety
By Janet Haas, Principal Consulting Epidemiologist at Innovative Infection Prevention We are honored to welcome our infection prevention advisor, Janet Haas, as a guest author to help us understand these healthcare construction safety developments. Dr. Haas is currently Principal Consulting Epidemiologist at Innovative ...
The True Cost of Drywall for the Construction Industry
With many practical applications, drywall is commonly used in various renovations and remodeling projects within commercial settings. Contractors factor drywall cost into their projects’ budgets, sometimes even using drywall to temporarily contain areas within job sites so that businesses can continue to operate. Yet the true ...
5 Containment Questions for Healthcare Project Pre-Planning
Our healthcare contractor customers have shared reams of notes from the field with us over the years. One thing is clear: healthcare contractors have ‘settled’ for traditional, often inferior, methods for containment challenges for far too long. Methods which can create as many problems as they solve, contributing to ...
5 Ways to Use Modular Walls Systems in Healthcare Facilities During the Pandemic
Healthcare facilities worldwide had to repurpose their infrastructure to create additional capacity during the pandemic, and the modular construction industry responded to this need. The use of modular wall systems helped hospitals cope with the influx of infected patients during outbreaks while creating a safer environment for ...
“Making the Impossible Possible” Award Winner: Artesia General Hospital
After implementing rigorous safety measures including temporary isolation solutions, this New Mexico hospital has had zero reported COVID-19 cases of patient-to-patient transfer since March 2020. Artesia General Hospital is the first winner of STARC System’s #MakingitPossible campaign—recognizing the healthcare facility ...
STARC Systems Accelerates Manufacturing to Accommodate Healthcare Networks Investing in Temporary Isolation Solutions as CARES Act is Set to Expire
PruittHealth joins several other major healthcare networks with system-wide investments in STARC. STARC’s ICRA Class-IV negative air temporary walls can be used to create instant isolation rooms to protect healthcare workers, patients, residents and visitors, while slowing the spread of coronavirus. December 16, 2020 - STARC ...