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It is crucial to use the best and most robust drainage
piping for heavy-duty high-maintenance drainage. Most of
all, it must have excellent watertight and airtight joints that
cannot pull apart with time, including robust pipe material
such as HDPE with welded joints is now used both below
and above ground.
The bottom line is, competent services design engineers
are essential to best-practice systems design. The
proposed definition of a competent services design
engineer is a registered professional engineer or
registered professional technologist with proven
specialist experience in the design of hospital services,
under the mentorship of a specialist Pr Eng or Pr Tech
Eng with a minimum of five years’ experience. Anyone
less qualified than that is not competent to deal with
rational design.
Rational design requirements
A rational design must be based on a comprehensive risk
assessment to prevent any contamination of the sterile
environment of both the internal and external spaces of a
hospital, based on the performance specification as per
SANS10400-P: P2, as well as annexures A and B.
The laboratory surfaces undergoing manufacture to exacting specifications.
It’s all about relevance and applicability. There are only
seven specific regulations relating to performance and
there are more than 30 deem-to-satisfy rules, which are
not relevant to rational design.
The installed laboratory surfaces.
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October 2019 Volume 25 I Number 8