COVID-19

Apr

03

2020

AIA Task Force Seeks Designs of COVID-19 Alternative Care Sites

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As part of its robust platform of COVID-19 mitigation resources, the AIA COVID-19 task force is seeking and sharing designs of COVID-19 alternative care sites. Architects, designers, engineers and facility owners are asked to provide designs to increase information sharing and best practice development for COVID-19 response.

Apr

03

2020

CoVent-19 Challenge Asks Millions of Designers and Engineers to Respond to the Ventilator Crisis

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A group of anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital has issued the CoVent-19 Challenge, launched on the GrabCAD Challenges platform on April 1. The CoVent-19 Challenge is an open innovation, eight-week challenge for engineers, innovators, designers, and makers—individually or in teams—to bridge the gap between need and actual resources by fostering innovation of a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventilator for patients with covid-19 lung injury.