Designing for Zero Downtime: Keeping Hospitals Running During Renovations
Renovating a live hospital might be the toughest design challenge in healthcare.
Care doesn’t pause, ICUs don’t shift, and every detour, partition, and temporary space has clinical consequences.
In this short piece, Kshititi Nagarkar, Lead Architect – Shree Designs, shares five field-tested principles from real projects that helped hospitals stay fully functional while being rebuilt around the clock — from infection control to circulation logic to reducing staff cognitive load.
If you’re involved in healthcare operations, facilities, or clinical planning, we’d love to hear how your teams handle live-site upgrades — what’s worked, what hasn’t, and where the biggest friction lives.
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