Hygiene, access for all, and a caring environment with GEZE door systems
Operating theatres, treatment rooms & patients' rooms and recreation rooms: rooms in doctors' surgeries and hospitals must be designed to be comfortable, handicapped-accessible and hygienic in order to provide the best support for the treatment process. GEZE understands the need for innovative door, window and safety systems for healthcare settings, and it provides customised and solutions-oriented advice at every phase of the project.
Clinics, doctors surgeries or care facilities: these environments place great demands on door, window and safety technology
Barrier-free sliding door in the Children's Memorial Health Institute. © Łukasz Janicki / GEZE Polska
GEZE solutions help to meet fundamental needs, such as accessibility, preventive fire protection and building safety in the healthcare sector. In addition, particular attention is paid to hygiene.
Healing Architecture promotes an environment that has a positive influence on healing and well-being. GEZE automatic door systems ensure access for all in this context and they support the hygiene measures that are implemented by healthcare facilities. Sensitive areas in particular, such as operating theatres and intensive care units, have stringent hygiene rules. But a hygienic environment also plays a key role elsewhere in hospitals, doctors’ surgeries and care facilities: lots of people have to touch manually operated controls, such as door handles and door knobs, in these busy buildings. And that causes problems when it comes to preventing infections.
The hygienic solution: non-contact automatic doors
Automatic swing, sliding and revolving doors by GEZE ensure hygienic conditions and the safety of everyone concerned at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, for example. This is because you can pass through the doors in the entrance area, corridors, lounges or patients' rooms without touching them at all thanks to our reliable door drives. Coupled with our activation devices and sensors, we can provide customised solutions for any door situation.
The GC 307+ non-contact proximity sensor can be used to control automatic swing, carousel and circular sliding doors. © Lorenz Frey / GEZE GmbH
Non-contact proximity switches ensure access for all and hygiene
Here's just one example of specialised GEZE solutions in this area: at the Fux Campagna care home in Switzerland and the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen (Denmark), automatic doors with the GEZE GC 307+ provide completely non-contact opening. Sensor push buttons ensure that disinfected hands remain hygienically clean – especially during operations. This also helps to ensure that in especially time-critical situations doors are already open before the accident and emergency doctor reaches them. Alternatively, activation is via a GEZE elbow switch.