Impacto de los desastres naturales en la infraestructura hospitalaria en Guatemala y su mitigación mediante el uso de BIM
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Guatemala has physiographic (geographic) and geotechnical characteristics that make it prone to natural disasters such as hurricanes and tropical storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides, which places it in position 10 of the countries with the highest risk of disasters in the world. Likewise, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for strengthing the resilience of hospitals in the face of health emergencies, because they simultaneously continued to provide care during outbreaks of infectious diseases, social, financial and other crises. This creates the need to build this type of buldings so they will have that capacity to adapt to such phenomena, during or after an event, people can use their facilities and that they are functional. In this sense, the use of Buiding Information Modeling BIM is proposed since it is a methodology, that creates and administrates data for designing and building large and complex building works, which can be used to develop the complete design including the construction process, maintenance and even the demolition of the bulding, once his life span has ended. Because there are still no plans or programs for the mandatory use of BIM in Guatemala, it was decided to carry out an exploratory investigation with its primarily and secondary an exploration method, for the purpose of answering the questions about what, why and how the development of hospital infrastructure would be carried out, the impact of natural disasters on said infrastructure and its mitigation through the use of BIM.
Source: Project Design and Management
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7124419641