University of Delaware health facility built on brownfield
Healthcare Design website posts photo tour of redevelopment project
The University of Delaware’s Health Sciences Complex was built on the site of a former automotive and U.S. military tank assembly plant in Newark. The challenges of using the brownfield site included inserting a vapor barrier and reusing a portion of the original assembly plant, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website.
CRAB is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, surgical wound infections and meningitis in hospitalized patients.
Effective defend-in-place strategies depend on compartmentation, fire-rated assemblies and ongoing staff training to protect patients who cannot quickly evacuate.