The Building Services Engineering Guide (BSEG) for designing Healthcare infrastructure and facilities has been developed for use across Health NZ sites, and a draft is now open for limited industry consultation.
The documents and response form can be accessed via the RCP website https://rcp.co.nz/insights/building-services-engineering-guide-for-healthcare-infrastructure.
The BSEG is intended to be a key document reference for the design of Healthcare infrastructure and facilities for (predominantly) major hospital new-build projects. The intended audience for the BSEG is experienced building services engineers with either a health design understanding or designers with extensive complex project design experience who wish to engage in health infrastructure and facility design. The guidelines do not explain or expand upon base building services engineering fundamentals but assume a good foundation of general engineering design and practice, and/or technical speciality in a particular discipline as appropriate.Â
The document is structured in three Volumes:
•               Volume 1: Fundamentals, Objectives and Principles - This volume provides background to the use of the guidelines, overarching principles, and project-wide initiatives that are discipline-agnostic and/or apply to multiple disciplines.
•               Volume 2: Disciplines – This volume is split into individual disciplines with technical information relevant to the individual discipline, building on the information provided in Volume 1. It defines the requirements for systems specific to individual disciplines.
•               Volume 3: Specialist Spaces and Services – This volume defines the specialist areas within healthcare facilities and the specialised building services needs for each.
If you would like to submit any feedback on any aspect of the BSEG, you are welcome to do so. Please submit your feedback here.  We also invite you to consider sharing this with wider design industry colleagues who have either experience in working on building services design for healthcare infrastructure and facilities or who have the prerequisite experience and desire to engage in the design of these projects. If you do, then we would appreciate a singular response to the survey from you and your wider team rather than individual responses.
The survey form has a number of general questions as prompts, but free-form comments are welcomed within the survey response form, at the end of each section.
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