The method we use in hotels that stay open, applied to the harder case: a building where patients can't be moved like guests and some systems keep people alive. Every works zone starts with an infection control risk assessment, and nothing clinical is shut down without a permit the hospital signs.
Who it's for
CORETECH is a new company and our track record is in method, not in hospital projects. This page sets out how we would work in your building, so you can judge the method before you meet us.
A clear view of what the engineering systems need, priced and phased around clinical activity.
A contractor who writes method statements and permits in your format and stops when your team says stop.
One way of assessing and reporting across several sites, so capital can be compared building to building.
Works planned around clinic hours, with smaller plant and the same discipline on infection control.
Why hospitals are harder than hotels
| Question | In a hotel | In a hospital |
|---|---|---|
| Can we empty the area? | Rooms come off sale; guests move | Only if the clinical team can move patients safely; often the work goes around them |
| What does dust do? | Causes complaints | Can carry fungal spores to patients with weak immunity |
| What does a shutdown cost? | Comfort and revenue | Some systems are life-critical: ventilators, oxygen, theatre air |
| What happens in a fire? | Guests evacuate | Many patients are protected in place behind smoke compartments, so those walls and doors must stay intact during the works |
| Who decides? | General manager and owner | Clinical decisions stay with the hospital's clinical teams, infection prevention and facility management |
How we work in an occupied hospital
Each step names who agrees it. We plan, contain and build; the hospital's infection prevention and clinical teams decide what is acceptable around their patients.
Before any works, the type of work and the patient risk of the areas around it are assessed together. The result sets the containment class and the precautions for that zone, and is reviewed again if the scope or the neighbouring areas change.
Agreed withInfection prevention and control, facility management
Barriers sealed from floor to slab, an anteroom where the class requires it, and HEPA-filtered negative-air units so air flows into the works zone, never out of it. The pressure is read at the barrier and logged each shift.
Agreed withInfection prevention and control
Sticky mats at every exit, debris moved covered along agreed routes and times, never through clinical areas in use, and HEPA vacuuming and damp wiping before a zone is handed back.
Agreed withInfection prevention, environmental services
The programme is built from the theatre lists and ICU census, not the other way round. Work next to or above a critical area waits for the window the hospital gives it.
Agreed withTheatre and ICU managers, nursing leadership
Noisy, vibrating or shutdown work goes into windows the hospital agrees in writing, with a named clinical contact on site for each one.
Agreed withHospital management, clinical leads
A short daily check with infection prevention, facility management and the area's nurse in charge: what was done, what changes tomorrow, and anything that needs the work to stop.
Who can stop the workThe hospital, at any time
Critical systems
For each one: what we look at, and the rule we keep when we work on it.
NFPA 99 · IEC 60364-7-710
HTM 02-01 · ISO 7396-1 · NFPA 99
ASHRAE/ASHE 170 · HTM 03-01
HTM 04-01
ELV interface
SBC 801 · SBC 901 · NFPA 101
Medical gas work is carried out by specialist medical gas contractors under our site management, and the system is tested and certified by a qualified verifier before it is returned to clinical use. Where a stamped design is needed, it comes from a licensed engineering office.
What we offer hospitals
The same three stages as our hotel work, with the hospital's own approvals built in.
The essential electrical system, medical gases, critical ventilation, water and fire safety surveyed and rated, with a costed CapEx plan and the immediate items listed first. The fee is separate from any works.
Plant replacement, power and ventilation upgrades, phased zone by zone under the ICRA and the hospital's permits.
Planned and reactive maintenance of the building services, with response times written into the agreement and work in clinical areas booked through the hospital.
We help prepare the engineering side: test records, maintenance evidence and closed defects that your facility management team presents. Accreditation is decided by the accrediting body, not by us.
Who decides what
| Licensing and design approval | Ministry of Health, the municipality and Civil Defense |
|---|---|
| Accreditation | CBAHI or the accrediting body the hospital uses |
| Clinical decisions, patient moves | The hospital's clinical teams |
| ICRA and containment class | Infection prevention and control, with facility management |
| Medical gas shutdowns | Clinical engineering, under the hospital's permit |
| Stamped design | A licensed engineering office |
No. CORETECH is a new company. What we bring is a method built for buildings that can't close, written down so you can check it before we start. We would rather you test the method on a technical assessment than take our word for it.
Medical gas work is done by specialist medical gas contractors under our site management, each one submitted to you for approval before they start. The system is tested and certified before it is reconnected to patients.
No one but the accrediting body can. We help your facility management team get the engineering evidence in order: test records, maintenance history and closed defects.
The Saudi Building Code (hospitals are Institutional Group I-2), Civil Defense requirements, Ministry of Health licensing requirements, and the international standards your design and specification name. We list them for your building at survey; see the healthcare standards.
Codes we work to
The Saudi regulations and international standards behind hospital work, with what each covers.
Other services
Start with a walk-round