Modular Buildings offer Advantages for the Healthcare Industry

Modular buildings offer the healthcare industry quick construction turnaround and high value. Both factors are important in the modern era of tight budgets and difficult construction schedules. Modular buildings can be used for many healthcare applications such as medical offices, clinics, diagnostic imaging facilities, dialysis centers and medical laboratories. Medical facilities can benefit from the flexibility and value of modular construction, temporarily or long-term.

Modular Construction
A modular building is constructed in sections in a controlled factory environment. As the modules are constructed, site work commences to install foundation, utilities and initial site grading. Next, the modules are delivered to the site and assembled on the foundation. Lastly, utilities are connected and the final interior and exterior finishes are completed.

Temporary Use
Often, a renovation or large construction project displaces workers. Using a modular building as swing space is often the best solution to provide a temporary location to house workers and assist patients until the project is complete. Medical swing space can keep the clinic, hospital or emergency room functioning while providing uninterrupted service during construction. The recovery process from natural disasters can also be aided by modular construction. Temporary modular clinics and hospitals can serve the community while the permanent structures are rebuilt.

Long-Term Use
Modular medical buildings also offer value when used for a permanent medical facility. The final building erects quickly and may offer a more cost effective solution because of the efficiencies of factory construction compared to onsite construction methods. The modular construction process can offer the owner all of the same options for floor plans, interior decoration, detail and healthcare specific requirements such as oxygen lines and laboratories. Other specialty features that these modular building can have include: airborne infection isolation room to reduce the spread of illness), HEPA filtration system with a MERV 15 air filter in the HVAC system for fresh air, specimen pass-through cabinets, medical sinks with foot pedals, special electrical loads for medical equipment such as x-ray machines and more.