medical equipment databases engineering layouts inspection services
Hospital designed by Mohammad Wasim (with input from Geoff) for Mr. Al-Ahmady in Qatif (1996). As usual I had started with 1:100 plan-view sketches of the operating theatres and clean to dirty flow routes from CSD (adjacent to the theatres) out through to "dirty disposal". We also looked at dirty linen chutes down into the basement laundry but this was not taken up during construction.
posted by Greybeard @ 6:29 AM
After forty years working in the engineering support of medical equipment, and in new hospital projects both in the design office and "at site", I now consider myself semi-retired. Following army service in Hong Kong, UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia, I worked in Saudi Arabia (a further four times), Nigeria, Jordan, Oman (twice) and the UK Health Service. My earning skills have included hands-on installation, repairs, maintenance, inspections and technical support of medical equipment. Together with advising on biomedical engineering generally, planning equipment layouts, producing equipment listings, writing specifications, and assisting architects etc. These days I live as simply and cheaply as I can, and (as far as possible) on my own terms, keeping my hand in by repairing or refurbishing medical equipment or doing inspections and maintenance work, sometimes for charity groups. But what I enjoy most is developing computer software, as a quirky and obsessive coder happy to be immersed in thorny problems for months at a stretch. "Free as a bird", and without any permanent address (generally moving on from time to time), I still jog as often as I can.
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