Keeping occupants safe during occupied renovations is paramount, especially in sensitive environments. In healthcare renovations, for example, the need to protect patients, staff and workers from fire hazards poses a familiar challenge: the replacement of any penetrated separation walls with a temporary one-hour, or equivalently rated, separation wall.
While replacing a wall is simple enough, in healthcare settings the stakes are raised by the need to work quickly and economically in a way that’s non-disruptive to the facility and, of course, in compliance with relevant building standards.