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and new facilities. It would be

a matter of choosing the right

elements rather than re-inventing

every element every time for

every project. The KEF-TAHPI

Design Studio, established at

Dubai Healthcare City has been

established just for this purpose.

The KEF –TAHPI Design

Studio goes even further.

Using the same components,

we offer 6 categories of

complete hospital designs

from the smallest Rural

and Remote hospitals with

15 to 18 beds to major

metropolitan teaching

hospitals with 500+ beds

and all required facilities.

These entire hospitals

would also be fully designed

and engineered with a

small range of possible

customizations.

Hard Modular takes these modular

designs, then pre-fabricates them

in components and delivers them

through the industrial efficiency

of scale with consistent quality.

These will be available at a

substantially lower cost than the

traditional procurement methods.

They replace “construction” with

“transportation” and “assembly”.

They would be fully functional at

the time of delivery with nothing

missing for full operation including

all medical and non-medical

equipment, furniture, software and

automation systems. In short these

are Hospitals delivered like large

passenger aircraft. They will be

known by capacity, model and the

KEF-TAHPI brand. They will come

with a warranty like any industrial

product.

TAHPI has been at the forefront

of Healthcare design for decades,

not only delivering hundreds

of facilities but also authoring

the healthcare standards and

guidelines of many Countries.

TAHPI is also the developer of a

vast range of automation software

for healthcare briefing, planning

and design management. KEF

is a major industrial group with

two prefabrication factories in

India and the UAE, delivering

all the components required for

healthcare facilities. These include

fully precast concrete structure,

room pods for small rooms and

fat-pack wall and components for

larger room types.

KEF-TAHPI currently guarantee

the delivery of healthcare projects

at 20% less cost and 30% less time

than the lowest traditional delivery

method. Within 5 years, KEF-

TAHPI aim to achieve 50% cost

and time reduction for all projects

compared with a QS estimate for

the traditional procurement

methodology.

So, one might ask what

is the catch? What is the

disadvantage? The answer

is simple. Clients would not

uniquely own the design.

Just like cars and planes they

simply receive the “product”.

Design and Engineering

will effectively be at no cost.

Furthermore, they will be

trading infinite variability

and personal design

preferences with “selection”

from a design catalogue.

These catalogue hospitals

will come with a limited

range of options and choices

such as finishes, cladding

types and branding elements.

Effectively clients will be

exercising their own creativity by

choice in a showroom environment.

There are many projects underway

at any given time, designed under

the traditional, slow and variable

processes. It is not too late for these

to be delivered under the KEF-

TAHPI industrial system. The KEF-

TAHPI Design Studio can convert

any existing plans into the modular

equivalent, ready for delivery and

assembly. Although this solution

will not be as efficient as the 6

fully designed modular hospitals,

nevertheless they will provide

substantial cost and time saving.

The catalogue of KEF-

TAHPI’s 6 classes of

Modular hospitals

including numerous

samples of individual

departments and room

types is available for

viewing at the Design

Studio as well as the

KEF-TAHPI showroom

at Arab Health 2015. The

showroom incorporates

3 standard room types

including a bedroom,

bathroom and utility

room. These represent

the quality expected of

the KEF-TAHPI brand.

Mar/Apr 2015