The importance of a dirty utility room's design and layout

By Alan Webb, Technical Director, DDC Dolphin

The importance of a dirty utility room's design and layout

  

By Alan Webb, Technical Director, DDC Dolphin

  

Designing modern, effective and, most importantly, clean hospitals for the 21^st century requires an innovative, informed, and cost-effective approach. Incorporating dirty utilities or sluice rooms into the architectural design of new/refurbished hospitals and other care facilities needs consideration of all factors relating to, as a minimum, infection control, access, flow of work, and layout. Dirty utility room design needs an approach that meets the specific needs of the hospital, as well as associated regulations. However, most critically it requires a design specification that helps to reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) resulting from cross infection from body fluids and human waste.

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