DETROIT, March 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid throngs of
daily reports lamenting the critical lack of hospital beds and
similar space shortage concerns for morgues in the wake of
COVID-19, with makeshift tents being erected on both fronts as a
short-term "BAND-AID," one company has been think-tanking what
could be a hugely viable solution for all. Detroit-based cargo architecture firm Three
Squared, whose steel cargo containers are typically used for
innovative multifamily and mixed-use housing applications, is now
proffering its state-of-the-art cargo container dwellings not only
as relief units for hospital and morgue/mortuary overflow, but also
as appropriately-appointed and climate-controlled housing units for
doctors and nurses needing to stay close to those patients.
"Amid the crisis, we've been refocusing our residential lodging
efforts to instead resolve the current hospital housing crisis,"
notes Leslie Horn, CEO of Three
Squared. "In consultation with several doctors who've shared
front-line problems and needs in relation, and through concerted
efforts to rally and align with other builders in the shipping
container sector, we've identified two distinct gaps in hospital
housing and successfully devised two specialized solutions to
wholly resolve these needs."
According to Horn, Three Squared's first solution would provide
direct and immediate relief for those hospitals facing a bed
shortage. Specifically, a mobile cargo unit that is delivered via
truck, hooked up to temporary plumbing and power, set on temporary
foundations, and covered with a temporary tent structure. Each unit
contains two hospital beds, also with a central bathroom with
running water. The bathroom also has an exterior door so that
doctors and nurses can decontaminate before leaving the unit at any
time—a feature suggested by one of the consulting doctors.
Another doctor Three Squared consulted with voiced concern
around the shortage of temporary housing for doctors and nurses who
need to so stay close by patients while also maintaining necessary
social distancing protocols. Thus, the company's second proposed
solution involves shipping container units set up in a similar
fashion for use as the hospital staff relief—temporary housing for
medical staff located near the patient hospital bed cargo
units.
"After the pandemic has run its course and the hospital patient
and staff-use shipping container structures have achieved their
objectives, the cargo units will be picked back up and delivered to
a final 'afterlife' resting place as housing for homeless,
veterans, disaster relief, college dormitories, food growing
operations and more. They can also be easily stacked and stand
'at-the-ready' to assist in future disaster relief efforts," Horn
notes.
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