Facilities management along with health care are two important aspects in controlling the spread of infectious diseases with regard to controlling the outbreak of global COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, with the increasing outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of examining the relationship between the built environment and the outbreak of infectious diseases has become more significant. The aim of the research described in this article is to develop effective infection control and mitigation measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 pandemic in the built environment. This study seeks to answer the question of how the facilities management industry can help reduce the transmission of coronavirus. For this purpose, an online survey questionnaire was distributed internationally from 8 April to 25 July, 2020 to collect data from various key stakeholders. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Various methods for the prevention and control of infectious diseases transmission are evaluated through this questionnaire-based survey with regard to their effectiveness for the healthy and safe built environment. These methods were categorized into three groups, including training protocols, operation and maintenance, and design and construction. The results show that all suggested methods have a positive effect on all types of buildings. These methods have an equal effect on low-risk buildings, while for high and very high-risk buildings, training protocols and design and construction measures have the greatest impact. In addition, training protocols and the measures in operation and maintenance will have the greatest effect on medium-risk buildings. The results can help in more rational decision making in relation to controlling the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in all types of buildings.
Society deems detention facilities successful when total life cycle cost is minimized without compromising safe, secure, and constitutional incapacitation. However, this consensus view represents only a minor subset of the potential of jails. System boundaries should be expanded, and a much larger set of outcomes considered. This case study of the design of a high-rise jail embodies transdisciplinary exploration of operational integration, architectural design, and engineering disciplines. The resulting 1,200-bed facility will rise 193.5 feet (59 meters) and cost an estimated $1.4 billion dollars. Sociotechnical systems ultimately determine conditions of confinement and the successful administration of justice within facilities that incarcerate. While organizational and detainee culture contribute to the criminogenic | rehabilitative continuum of outcomes, design can rise to the level of organizational culture, psychological drivers, and policies, procedures, and post orders in its potential to influence outcomes. Justice facilities are complex adaptive systems that cannot be directly controlled. We can—at best—influence their evolution, nudging them toward desired goal states.
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