designing for life · • design basics • a look at operational hospitals • convergence? ......

Designing for lifeDesigning for life

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Overview

• About Queensland Health• Standards and how they relate• Design basics• A look at operational hospitals• Convergence?• Design development• Murphy• A new concept for design• Summary• Questions


Queensland State Boundary


Boigu Is

Mornington Is Cairns

Camooweal

Boulia

Mungindi

Queensland Health remote locations

Mornington Is

Boigu Is

Brisbane

Cairns


Queensland Distances


Comparison of service area


Standards

• History• Focus• Products• Government• Queensland Health


Introduction to Queensland Standards

One over-arching standard that governs the way things are done:Queensland Government Information Security Classification Framework (QGISCF) and in particular principle 7 of that document.


QGISCF classification model


Key points in Qld Health design

• Building and site lifespan – some in excess of 100 years

• Cat6A Shielded cabling is mandated• Redundancy is mandatory for:

– Patient safety– Business continuity


Key points in Qld Health ICTCSTD

Things that WILL happen• Projects must be audited for compliance

with standards at the project’s cost• Defects will be rectified at the offending

party’s cost


Key points in Qld Health ICTCSTD

Things that WON’T happen• Accepting a communications system that is

subject to interference or interruption e.g.– Incomplete or unstable power– Incomplete environmentals– Unsecured environments

• Acceptance of a communications system that is not fit for purpose.

• Impact is that any system that relies on the QH LAN environment cannot be commissioned until the room is complete.


A brief look at a working hospital (Royal Brisbane


Network convergence

News Flash!

The future of networking is here! We can have a single data network with all of our devices connected to it and save money.


Networked devices

The items considered suitable for convergence (but not limited to) arePCs, Laptops, WOWS, COWS, Printers, MFDs, Desk phones, Wireless Phones, Security systems, Fire panels, Nurse call, Duress, Paging (pocket), Servers, SANS, CT scanners, MRIs, Linear accelerators, Room booking systems, Temperature monitors, Temperature controllers, Energy management systems, HVAC systems, MATV (IPTV), CCTV cameras, CCTV servers and archivers, Video conference unitsand finallyThe 200,000 biomedical devices


There is a new buzz word in the industry

Network Convergence

Networked devices

Network Convergence ?


Networked devicesSpot quiz – what does it take to go from:

This To this


Building Design Stages

5 key stages:• Master Planning• Sketch Design• Detailed Design• Tender• ConstructionThen there is • Discipline tendering• Final or last minute design


Murphy

Better known as the things that go pear shaped• Changing Timeframes• Updated Technologies• GFCs• Rapid changes in standards• Environmental effects• Final minute Design• Unmanaged Expectations• Inappropriate delegation• Lack of project management• Lack of understanding• The Stupid factor


A new concept for Design

To quote – never assume – it makes an ass out of u and me.

The customer must never assume that the supplier engaged to do the work knows everything

The supplier must never assume that the customer is uneducated or inexperienced.


Summary of the Design for Life

• A hospital environment is totally different from any other environment.

• At a hospital like RBWH:– One or more patients will be undergoing surgery

during any implementation– a new life will be coming into the world during any

implementation– The Emergency Department will have at least 20

patients– There will be almost 1000 patients in beds



• The designer is responsible for getting the design correct.

• The designer, installer and the hospital are responsible and liable when things go wrong

• Consult with the correct stakeholders

• The post installation inspections are aligned to the Queensland Health ICTCSTD and approved exemptions, not necessarily the design presented by the designer.

• The QH ICTCSTD is the output of all specialist areas in Queensland Health.



The next slide portrays what I believe designing for hospital environments is all

about


Life by Power point

One Special Care Nursery2 new lives144 power points to support the biomedical


Questions?


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