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Interaction Between Building Design for Efficiency + Safety of Patients / Staff in the Age of Pandemics
Utilising iterative designs, flexible layouts and tracking sensors to find the optimum setup for a pop-up Moorfields Eye Hospital
As part of a cross-disciplinary UCL team including team members from the听Bartlett School of Architecture,听Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, the听UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, as well from the听听and commercial partners听,听听补苍诲听, the Connected Environments team at CASA is looking to help design and build the optimum outpatient clinic for Moorfields Eye Hospitals.听
Glaucoma and medical retina care at Moorfields consists of several standardised tests that each patient goes through when visiting an outpatient clinic. These include procedures like the standard eye test and photographs taken of the eye to less heard of procedures like the Humphrey Field Analyser and the ORA. What is fundamental about these outpatient clinics is that each patient runs through the same procedures every visit. This means that the patients and the technician running the procedures go through very similar flows and patterns that can be optimised given the right technology and opportunities.听听
This is precisely the problem that Project Hercules is attempting to solve. Using the pop-up clinic located at Brent Cross, which is easily reconfigurable and allows multiple different floor plans to be tested, the Project Hercules team aims to build a safer and more efficient clinic. Consenting patient and technician movements will be tracked using highly specialised Ubisense Ultra-Wideband sensors. Monitoring and recording people within a metre, these sensors will provide granular location data, which can be analysed on its own, aggregated to understand problematic areas or to potentially uncover what makes one layout much more efficient than another. In combination with in-person ethnographic observations and measurements of environmental conditions such as CO2 levels, these analyses will be a fundamental part of how future Moorfields Eye
Partners
Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust, Ubisense,听UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Bartlett School of Architecture,听Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction,听Zeiss, Optos
Funders
Moorfields Eye Charity
Project Team Members
- Prof Paul Foster, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (Project Lead)听
- Prof Kerstin Sailer, Bartlett School of Architecture听
- Prof Peter Scully, Bartlett School of Architecture听
- Prof Duncan Wilson, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis听
- Prof Grant Mills, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction听
- Dr Anne Symons, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction听
- Dr Hari Jayaram, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust听
- Prof Ian Eames, Mechanical Engineering听
- Prof Martin Utley, Clinical Operational Research Unit听听
Contact
Duncan Wilson, Daniel Rennie, Steven Gray