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“I think we’ve got a good solution. If we could just figure out a few of the unknowns I think it’s a great idea and I’m really excited about the possibilities,” Avery said.

The two companies have been working together for years, but this recent partnership within the health industry allows for an all-in-one approach to what will likely become an increasing concern for hospitals dealing with the virus around the world.

“If you can get a rapidly deployable, code-compliant structure that could be put up with proper hospital isolation rooms or even ICU units . . . that are of hospital-grade quality, which Falkbuilt can do, I think there’s a real win-win, and you can still repurpose our structures in the long haul,” Avery said.

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Not only are the structures more reliable and effective than tents, Avery said beginning to end construction of an entirely new health-care facility can take as little as weeks.

“Most of the structures we do, they’re engineered for permanence but designed to be relocatable for multi-use applications. So what we’re seeing in medicine, people want to know they can be repurposed later on so that they can be transitional facilities,” he said.

Falkbuilt CEO Mogens Smed said the partnership with Sprung presents an “attractive proposition” for hospitals and health-care facilities as opposed to conventional construction.

“These hospitals do have space in their parking lots, so what can happen is Sprung can just go in there, pour a slab on the parking lot and set up a structure literally in a few days, and then we can come in after the infrastructure and in a couple weeks, we can put in a 20- or 40-unit ICU implementation there,” he said.