Tata BlueScope Steel ramps up health infra in COVID times with its smart steel structures
To address the ever-increasing demand for high quality, ready-to-install health infrastructure, Tata BlueScope Steel, leaders in coated steel, steel building products and solutions have introduced high strength, modular and quick to install steel structures which would help combat COVID-19.
Tata BlueScope Steel has always endeavoured in enabling innovative infrastructure solutions for improving lives. With its expertise and experience in such projects; EZYBUILD® – the light structural steel building solutions from Tata BlueScope Steel – has designed and developed customised life-care solutions in the form of isolation and quarantine units, testing and sample collection booths and doctor's cabins.
The structures are specially designed for anyone seeking to install such facilities in their premise or locality. Be it the state governments, municipal corporations, hospitals, corporates, institutions or even large housing societies.
While sharing his view on the given situation, Riten Choudhury, Managing Director, Tata BlueScope Steel, said, “With the COVID-19 pandemic, optimising healthcare facilities for the affected is the need of the hour. The only way is to develop alternatives that are secure and quick to erect. At Tata BlueScope Steel, we are committed to fight back the virus with our easy-to-build-and-maintain structures that are designed keeping in mind patients’ comfort and healthcare workers’ security.”
EZYBUILD Life-care Structures
With necessary amenities as per medical guidance, these smart steel structures in the form of quarantine wards and testing kiosks are available in kit-like solutions, wherein wall, roof panels and internal partitions, are assembled onsite. They can be easily dismantled, packed and shifted to other sites once the containment zone is free from the pandemic’s threat. These structures are easy to sanitise, are weather-proof, thermally efficient and can be offered with or without base platform. Made from light weight high strength Colorbond and Zincalume steel, these structures offer great corrosion resistance to any chemical based discharge or sprays.
Ezybuild
Ezybuild Solutions from Tata BlueScope Steel are ready-to-install, quick, customisable alternatives to conventional construction techniques. Available pan-India through a network of Ezybuild Solutions Partners, these light gauge framing structures are the best option for a speedy turnaround time, especially in times of crisis.
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