MAINTAINING A HEALTHY BALANCE
TECHNOLOGY
and hand over our Revit models to the contractor , that level of information from design to build can then be passed on to the client as a digital twin to help them operate the building - vital for the future-proofing of healthcare projects .”
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The synergies across the many sectors Cundall operates in – from education and industrial to residential and healthcare – allow for new techniques to be shared . “ Some of the work we ’ re doing with pumping technologies in high rise residential can be transferred to hospitals ,” explains Maddocks . “ Healthcare can also learn from the resilience technology required in the construction of data centres . Because one of the problems we ’ re going to have on the net zero carbon journey [ Cundall aims to be carbon positive by 2025 ] is the huge backlog of maintenance issues across healthcare sites that still have oil or steam powered boilers . Creating resilient low carbon strategies that still meet the process requirements of a hospital will be a major challenge over the next ten years .”
APRIL 2020