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I don’t know. Are CT or MRI machines ever found on anything but the ground floor because of the weight of them / installation complexity? I agree that you want

I don’t know. Are CT or MRI machines ever found on anything but the ground floor because of the weight of them / installation complexity? I agree that you want standardized designs, but modular stuff gets tricky because it’s physical infrastructure not code (eg things can fairly physically in unintended ways if the supports aren’t designed for it and designing supports for arbitrary undefined loads to be added later is tricky). At least that’s my uninformed take.

repiret 3y ago
At my local hospital, the MRI and CT are on the upper of two floors. They are heavy machines, but buildings can be built to support heavy machines.
- vlovich123 3y ago
  Couldn't find anything online except for a reddit thread with random guesses. Alternative explanations are colocating with ER (the places I go to tend to not have an ER so not sure that's the reason), or for CT & Xrays the floors might have to additionally be lead-lined if not on the first floor which adds to the cost (when there's a basement imaging can often be located there apparently). Could also be a convention that's just been established but there's no real reason.
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adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Well I mean, you still have to engage your brain and do some design at some point. PortaKabins are modular yet no one specifies to stack them 100 high, even though in theory you could just keep on stacking (infinite floor area hack, real estate agents hate this one simple trick!). As for CT, the last one I had was actually on a floor C, but it was at the back I think, so now I think about it could have been the ground floor as the building was on a hill. But even then the module catalog can just say "you can only put Type H (heavy) modules at the bottom, and Type R (radiological) ones go at the bottom unless shielded". Maybe it's just an insane and impractical idea, but I can't help thinking billions upon billions in one-off design and refitting work is being reinvented every new project (not that I hear architects and consultancies crying about it).

repiret 3y ago

At my local hospital, the MRI and CT are on the upper of two floors. They are heavy machines, but buildings can be built to support heavy machines.

vlovich123 3y ago
Couldn't find anything online except for a reddit thread with random guesses. Alternative explanations are colocating with ER (the places I go to tend to not have an ER so not sure that's the reason), or for CT & Xrays the floors might have to additionally be lead-lined if not on the first floor which adds to the cost (when there's a basement imaging can often be located there apparently). Could also be a convention that's just been established but there's no real reason.

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adhesive_wombat 3y ago

Well I mean, you still have to engage your brain and do some design at some point. PortaKabins are modular yet no one specifies to stack them 100 high, even though in theory you could just keep on stacking (infinite floor area hack, real estate agents hate this one simple trick!). As for CT, the last one I had was actually on a floor C, but it was at the back I think, so now I think about it could have been the ground floor as the building was on a hill. But even then the module catalog can just say "you can only put Type H (heavy) modules at the bottom, and Type R (radiological) ones go at the bottom unless shielded". Maybe it's just an insane and impractical idea, but I can't help thinking billions upon billions in one-off design and refitting work is being reinvented every new project (not that I hear architects and consultancies crying about it).