Gbadamosi Abdul-Quayyum, Oyedele Lukumon, Olawale Oladimeji, Abioye Sofiat
Big Data Enterprise and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Big-DEAL), Bristol Business School, University of West of the England, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Prog Disaster Sci. 2020 Dec;8:100130. doi: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100130. Epub 2020 Oct 26.
The outbreak of a pandemic of global concern, the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has tested the capacity of healthcare facilities to the brim in many developed countries. In a minacious fashion of rapid spread and extreme transmission rate, COVID-19 has triggered a shortage of healthcare facilities such as hospital bed spaces and ventilators. Various strategies have been adopted by the worst-hit countries to slacken or halt the spread of the virus. Common Isolation Space Creation (ISC) measures for the COVID-19 pandemic containment includes self-isolation at home, isolation at regular hospitals, isolation at existing epidemic hospitals, isolation at retrofitted buildings for an emergency, isolation at Temporary Mobile Cabins (TMCs), isolation at newly constructed temporary hospitals for COVID-19. This study evaluates the ISC measures and proposes offsite and modular solutions for the construction industry and built environment to respond to emergencies. While this study has proposed a solution for creating emergency isolation spaces for effective containment of such pandemic, other critical COVID-19 challenges such as the shortage of healthcare staff and other facilities are not addressed in this study.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）这一全球关注的大流行病的爆发，在许多发达国家对医疗设施的能力进行了极限考验。COVID-19以迅速传播和极高传染率的可怕方式，引发了医院床位和呼吸机等医疗设施的短缺。受灾最严重的国家采取了各种策略来减缓或阻止病毒传播。用于控制COVID-19大流行的常见隔离空间创建（ISC）措施包括居家自我隔离、在普通医院隔离、在现有传染病医院隔离、在应急改造建筑中隔离、在临时移动方舱（TMC）中隔离、在新建的COVID-19临时医院隔离。本研究评估了ISC措施，并为建筑行业和建成环境提出了场外和模块化解决方案以应对紧急情况。虽然本研究提出了创建紧急隔离空间以有效控制此类大流行的解决方案，但本研究未涉及其他关键的COVID-19挑战，如医护人员和其他设施的短缺。
