Core Guidance - Planning for a Resilient Healthcare Estate (HBN 00-07 ARCHIVED)

HBN 00-07 Oct 2014 Health Building Note (HBN) 00-07 provides guidance for NHS-funded providers on designing and planning for a resilient healthcare estate. It aims to help NHS-funded providers to determine appropriate levels of resilience for sites, buildings and installations against a wide range of emergencies, hazards and threats and their impacts and consequences including resilience to the impacts of climate change. This document focuses on:

• the strategic approach to resilience planning for healthcare estates;
• procuring resilient healthcare estates;
• design and planning considerations for a resilient healthcare estate;
• resilience of building services engineering.

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