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Roadmap layers and processes: resilient and sustainable care facilities

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posted on 2019-03-14, 11:29 authored by Efthimia Pantzartzis, Andrew Price, Francis Tekyi Edum-Fotwe
Health and social care facilities are usually complex buildings that require continuous effort to provide resilient and sustainable responses to changes in demographics, technologies, diseases and models of care. Despite resilience and sustainability concepts being frequently used by practitioners and researchers, ambiguities in their definitions often result in a lack of operational solutions to record, monitor and improve the resilience and sustainability of health and social care facilities. Although the importance and complexity of the issues are widely acknowledged, there is little strategic guidance as to how they should be achieved. The aim of this paper is to: assess the suitability of developing a roadmap for improving the resilience and sustainability of UK health and social care facilities; and identify the layers and processes needed to construct such a roadmap. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative approach was adopted, starting with a literature review of different types of roadmaps and their suitability to support the desired improvement objectives. Layers and processes were thus developed using the key issues identified in three recent research streams, and the roadmap was structured. Findings - The major findings have been captured within a three-layer, four-step process generic roadmap for improving the resilience and sustainability of health and social care facilities that can be used to monitor performance, plans future actions and implement response to change. Practical implications - This paper targets decision-makers, especially estate managers, but the proposed layers and processes can be modified for other stakeholders. Originality/value - This paper suggests an original approach for the development of a roadmap for resilience and sustainability of health and social care facilities, and specifically of how to structure layers and processes, envisioning a more integrated development of service provision and infrastructure asset management.

Funding

This paper describes different streams of research that have been completed with funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), and the Department of Health England.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volume

26

Issue

9

Pages

1986 - 2007

Citation

PANTZARTZIS, E., PRICE, A.D.F. and EDUM-FOTWE, F.T., 2019. Roadmap layers and processes: resilient and sustainable care facilities. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 26 (9), pp.1986-2007.

Publisher

© Emerald

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2019-03-04

Publication date

2019-10-21

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-06-2016-0136.

ISSN

1365-232X

Language

  • en