Applying Flexibility Spatial Guidelines on an Intensive Care Unit to Increase its sustainability and life expectancy. | ||
| Port-Said Engineering Research Journal | ||
| Article 19, Volume 21, Issue 2, September 2017, Pages 199-205 PDF (589.08 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/pserj.2017.33371 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ashraf abd elfattah elmokadem1; Osama Abo Elenien2; Mohamed Nour* 3 | ||
| 1faculty of engineering port said university | ||
| 2Associate Professor at Architectural engineering and urban planning, Faculty of engineering, Port Said University | ||
| 3Architect at Gulf Medical Company LTD., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Flexibility in design is one of the sustainability techniques in architecture which applying it shall increase any buildings sustainability and life expectancy. Hospital buildings are the most type of buildings that needs that due to the rapid and frequent changes that happens to the hospital buildings architecture. High specialized departments in specific, needs flexibility more than other departments to cope with the huge load and development in it. ICU department as one of the specialized departments will definitely increase its sustainability if applied flexibility guidelines on it. Flexibility is the ability to change with an ease and without affect any of the other element badly, it has certain guidelines that guides the way to apply flexibility in hospital buildings | ||
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