NRRP: IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS OF HOSPITALS WITH ISAAC
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Italian government introduced the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), an ambitious investment programme to encourage a rebound in the country’s economy and social recovery. Among the many challenges that the NRRP faced, making hospitals earthquake-resistant emerged as a goal of primary importance.
Do you want to make a hospital earthquake-resistant?
What does the NRRP provide for?
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) is a crucial investment tool aimed at encouraging a rebound in the country’s economy and social recovery and one of its priority areas is to provide earthquake protection to infrastructure and strategic public buildings.
Hospitals are the heart of the healthcare system, essential to the health and well-being of communities. In an earthquake-prone country like Italy, it is vital to ensure at they are safe when an earthquake strikes. This is where ISAAC, with its Active Mass Damper technology, comes in as the ideal partner for carrying out earthquake-resistant improvements, while allowing for business continuity.
ISAAC and Active Mass Damper technology at hospitals
Hospitals are the heart of the healthcare system, essential to the health and well-being of communities. In an earthquake-prone country like Italy, it is vital to ensure at they are safe when an earthquake strikes. This is where ISAAC, with its Active Mass Damper technology, comes in as the ideal partner for carrying out earthquake-resistant improvements, while allowing for business continuity.
What exactly are these devices and how can they contribute to protecting hospitals from earthquake damage?
AMDs are devices that respond actively to earthquakes, as they are designed to constantly monitor swaying caused by an earthquake and neutralize it. They work through a mobile mass that moves counter-phase, in the opposite direction to the structure, significantly reducing the amount of seismic energy transmitted to the building. The action exerted by systems takes place in real time, providing the structure with instantaneous protection during an earthquake.
Based on advanced technologies, these devices are able to detect and withstand the oscillations caused by an earthquake, and significantly reduce the risk of structural damage.
Do you want to make a hospital earthquake-resistant?
What benefits can hospitals obtain from ISAAC’s AMD systems?
By installing ISAAC’s technology at hospitals, the healthcare environment is safer. Benefits include:
- Personnel and patient safety: the main objective of providing hospitals with earthquake protection is the safety of people. ISAAC’s AMDs protect both staff and patients from injuries caused by earthquakes.
- Business continuity: A significant advantage of the AMDs is their ability to ensure that hospitals keep running. Because the AMD acts instantly to reduce vibrations, during installation there is no need to stop what normally goes on at the hospital.
- Long-term costs reduction: AMDs reduce the risk of structural damage, which in turn reduces the costs of repairs and maintenance after the earthquake.
- Community resilience: By investing to protect hospitals from earthquake damage, we help to build more resilient communities that can meet future challenges.
Our commitment to preventing earthquake damage aims to bring Italy to successfully tackle the challenge of protecting hospitals from earthquakes. Investing to protect hospitals from earthquake damage means investing in the health and future of our country.