Protecting Patients and Exceeding ICRA Requirements with Temporary Wall Solutions

When Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the nation’s largest privately held construction firms, needed to help their hospital client disguise construction work behind walls that provided Level 4 infection control, they turned to the Temporary Containment Walls team at Sunbelt Rentals for a solution.

A Lasting Impact For Healthcare Facilities Through Temporary ICRA Walls

Our containment walls keep dirt and debris where they belong: inside your construction or renovation site. We deliver the walls, and expertise of installing and modifying, to any jobsite as a full solution service.

Maintaining an Uninterrupted, Uncontaminated Hospital

The challenge Brasfield & Gorrie faced was needing to ensure patients wouldn’t be disturbed by noise or airborne contaminants during a large hospital renovation. The hospital needed a customized but professional-looking solution, multiple types of equipment delivered in a timely fashion, and most importantly, sound attenuation and airtight barriers that create negative air space to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens.

The Sunbelt Rentals Experience

Sunbelt rentals provided constant support to ensure hospital standards were met, making everyone happy.

— Robbie Eckhart, General Contractor

Finding the Right Temporary Containment Walls for Healthcare

Sunbelt Rentals Temporary Containment Wall experts got to work utilizing STARC wall systems, identifying the correct solution and coordinating timely delivery of wall panels. Environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and light can also have a significant impact on the survival of pathogens in the air and on surfaces.

Sunbelt Rentals offers a wide variety of equipment solutions to help you as you work to increase air ventilation, improve air filtration, and maintain temperature and relative humidity setpoints in your building.

Negative air machines were needed to create negative air pressure preventing the spread on containment and improving the air quality of the jobsite. How this works is the negative air machine makes the air pressure inside the contained space lower than the air pressure outside the space. This means that when the door opens potentially contaminated air will not flow outside of the contained space into non-contaminated areas.

A temporary wall system installed in a commercial space.

The Airtight ICRA Barrier Solution

Navigating a tricky layout, the Sunbelt Rentals team rapidly installed customized containment walls that seamlessly blended into the hospital environment. Our containment panels come in multiple widths to fit all aesthetic and design requirements. Hinged doors, preassembled windows, and accessories solve your biggest containment challenges. And when the hospital asked for additional protection against gaps that could potentially let airborne pathogens out, our team ensured the temporary space was airtight, exceeding Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) Class IV requirements.

We deliver the walls, and the expertise of installing and modifying them, to any jobsite. Request a temporary walls quote for your jobsite below.

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