Texmedic wrote:hope the generators aren't on the ground floor, as often the case
They sure are, every last one of them, except in the TDC hospital...
R
Well duh! What those people think when they build a hospital??!
I'm not in architecture, but... I'd put in an internal "wing" on each floor with no windows, vault-type doors that could be closed, and service those "bomb wings" with isolated emergency lines for : oxygen, electricity, airconditioning, water, emergency phones, etc. On 2nd or 3rd floor I'd put my isolated "plant" to run those all those services, including their generators, independent of the rest of the building, including connection stairwell. I'd let those areas house ICU, CCU, PCCU, surgical recovery (all those patients who can't look out the window anyway). When it came time for hurricane evac, the critical patients who can't evac are already in the bomb-proof, hurricane proof part of the building. Shut down and evac everything else, lock the big doors, and you are safe from storm winds, rising water, looters, etc. Even if it's a terrorist threat, it might come in very handy...