Construction system design solutions for preventing hospital-acquired infections in the Coronavirus pandemic context

In the Coronavirus pandemic, many unexpected factors appear in nature that causes inflexible technological construction systems to fail in many hospital projects. Even many newly-built hospital projects have not taken into account the destruction of the structural system’s health when the hospital architectural solution evolves due to the demands of sustainability. Based on the results identified by many pieces of research on hospital-acquired infections in the Coronavirus pandemic, this paper reviews the rising demand for appropriate solutions of sustainable construction systems containing essential characteristics to facilitate the flexibility and adaptability of hospital architecture to confront unexpected infectious diseases as pandemics are not playing out in the same way every time. Comparison analysis will be carried out to outline the opportunities for structural systems in the hospital construction industry with respect to environmental sustainability. For the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, the architecture of healthcare facility designs has to be able to improve functional spaces and medical technical systems. These lead to a demand for changes to the recent structure diagram and load-bearing capacity. This research in pursuit of structural system health preservation have shown that a steel structural system with lightweight and long-span frames provides environmentally responsible solutions in hospital design that are long-lasting, highly flexible, and reusable