The role and importance of standards in cost optimization and increased productivity and quality in constructing health centers

Abstract

Standardization of building process in medical sectors has provided the ground for specialization levels, ensuring the future buildings will have better quality. The life span of Health Centers in Iran is only one quarter of same building in other countries, which leads to extra cost for both structure and non-structure (hospital facilities & equipment) and So far, there are no approved regulations to make health care spaces. The aims of this research are reducing the cost of building, facilities and equipment and increasing productivity implies the provision of standard spaces in which the facilities are optimized by proposing Quality management model. This research has discussed the deficiency of building regulations in healthcare sector. The interviews accomplished for collecting data about defects in construction of health center and hospital. The primarily result shows that the budget estimates are not correct, design is done poorly, and studies are not accurate, so long construction time can cause a depreciation of structures. Due to the increasing need of society for healthcare spaces and their high level of construction, standard regulations should be regarded in cost optimization and increasing productivity and quality in order to maintain national assets for future generations. Finally, based on requirement a model is suggested for improving current practice definition and revision of existing laws for medical spaces. The model has been divided into ten categories namely: planning, organize, communicate, substructure, education, leading the process, control, predict variation, accessory measures and finally documentation.