What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information’s (HCAI) recent white paper covers how useful and beneficial it is for health care facilities to utilize seismic instrumentations, such as various sensors that measure accelerations and displacements.
What else to know: The paper was developed by the Hospital Building Safety Board’s Instrumentation Committee and its information is valuable to hospital owners and managers, operators, design professionals, public officials, and the general public.
Seismic instrumentation records motions when earthquakes occur and are essential in understanding the behavior of hospital buildings due to and during earthquakes. As a result of this understanding, design and construction practices can be and have been modified so that future earthquake damage is minimized and continuous operation is maintained.
Contact Trina Gonzalez, vice president, policy, at tgonzalez@calhospital.org with any questions.
