Health care activity in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut is expected to rise as the market comes to grips with some of the uncertainties that slowed it down last year, including health care and insurance reforms. But hospitals, contractors, and other stakeholders are now grappling with a new problem in the wake of Superstorm Sandy's devastating blow to many of their facilities—how to prevent that from happening again.
While 2011's Hurricane Irene made these stakeholders rethink safety, security, and emergency preparedness, Sandy has brought them back to the table to come up with something much more robust, speakers told attendees at ENR New York's "A Closer Look at the Healthcare Construction Boom" conference, held March 1 in Manhattan (ENR is Architectural Record's sister publication). They say that health care stakeholders are now scrutinizing upgrades and expansions planned or already under way to determine how to greatly improve protections.
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