I feel really happy coming here.
If, for some reason, I couldn’t go that way, there are fire exits at each end of the building, which I could go up if needed.’.The other aspect of the hospital’s sense of spaciousness is, of course, provided by the rooms themselves.
Supplies Lead Wendy Bonard-Williams comments that her team are fortunate in this regard.‘With the actual store rooms themselves,’ she says, ‘they’ve really thought about it.’.Raj Goel agrees when talking about the outpatient rooms.
‘There’s a clinic area next to each room,’ he says, ‘which is very good and that doesn’t always happen in other places.’.Maswiken comments upon the ample sizes of the recovery spaces.
He, Highton and Goel remark upon the particular spaciousness of the theatres, with Goel commenting that this is a ‘major attraction’ of Circle and highlighting the fact that the anesthetic rooms are also very spacious.. ‘This facility had a particularly large percentage of orthopedic surgeons,’ says Wood, ‘and orthopedic surgeons needed a very particular form of operating theatre...more instruments tend to be involved in the operations.
Therefore, we actually simulated in three dimensions, in a virtual environment, how they were going to use their equipment...we were able to position the components within the operating theatre more accurately, so that the efficiency of the operations could be greater than within a typical, general purpose operating theatre.’.The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.
We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..
The increasing digitisation of relevant information and data, and our ability to import that data into the planning process in meaningful ways will further help engagement.Well constructed visual representations make raw data accessible to a wide audience.
(Editor: Top Laptops)