More or less, yes if you are able to show by design and calculation how it meets the essential requirements for the use of that place.
There is a need for the design authority to create a detailed risk assessment and something akin to a method statement that shows how all the credible failures that may occur are going to be mitigated by his/her design, or are not dangerous in that situation.
It rather depends what sort of hospital it is - some for example do not even have a general accident and emergency section, others may have all disciplines or specialise in one thing like eye surgery. Many larger ones have a campus layout, so that there may a whole building of mothers and babies, and another one on the other side of a patch of grass that is full of stroke patients. The buildings then can be given different optimisations.
More or less, yes if you are able to show by design and calculation how it meets the essential requirements for the use of that place.
There is a need for the design authority to create a detailed risk assessment and something akin to a method statement that shows how all the credible failures that may occur are going to be mitigated by his/her design, or are not dangerous in that situation.
It rather depends what sort of hospital it is - some for example do not even have a general accident and emergency section, others may have all disciplines or specialise in one thing like eye surgery. Many larger ones have a campus layout, so that there may a whole building of mothers and babies, and another one on the other side of a patch of grass that is full of stroke patients. The buildings then can be given different optimisations.
