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Healthcare Facilities Today: Facility Management Before a Crisis Strikes
"Resilience has become a higher priority in recent years, according to professionals involved in helping healthcare facilities prepare. They cite the effects of recent wildfires and power outages, as well as hurricanes and flooding that devastated parts of the East Coast."
In this article for Healthcare Facilities Today, Thornton Tomasetti Associate Aditya Bhagath - who helped provide flood-resistance strategies and lessons learned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy for various healthcare facilities in the New York metro area - discusses the challenges of healthcare facility managers embracing resilient structural design to mitigate against future extreme levels of precipitation and coastal flooding.