SMART Healthcare Facilities was developed in 2013 in the Caribbean Region of the Americas. Its aim is to improve the resilience of healthcare facilities to withstand natural hazards, and to adapt to and mitigate against climate change.
The lecture recording focuses on many aspects including:
- The Caribbean environment with respect to natural hazards and traditional counteractive measures
- The history of the DfID-PAHO Smart Hospitals project
- Assessments of healthcare facilities using the PAHO Hospital Safety Index
- Standards of retrofitting and the how these are monitored
- Discover the assessments used to check water and energy consumption and how these lead to sustainable retrofitting
- Gain an understanding of the impact of these projects on the construction industry in DfID-PAHO-SH countries
- Learn how some of these methods can be applied to local retrofitting projects
SMART Healthcare Facilities