Capital works: designing for today and tomorrow.
A recent (26 September 1980) Journal article by Pauline Drummond drew attention to some relatively new hospital buildings which developed structural and other faults which had to be put right at great cost. Now G.D. Kelly, area works officer, Bolton, explains the part that professional works staff play in the provision of new, and the improvement of old, buildings and underlines their responsibility to resist short-term economies which will lead to increased costs in the longer term.
D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom