Seismic Compliance
in Healthcare

Ensuring Operational
Readiness
Seismic compliance is critical for hospitals and acute care facilities to ensure operational readiness during and after seismic events. P2S supports healthcare institutions in meeting the rapidly approaching deadlines for Non-Structural Performance Category 5 (NPC-5) seismic safety standards, helping them maintain functionality and safeguard patient care in the event of an earthquake.
Covering Every Critical Need
Hospitals are critical facilities that must maintain operations during any event, including earthquakes. Patients need to continue receiving care, which requires utilities like HVAC, medical gas, water, drainage and backup electrical power. Storage tanks for water, sewage, and generator fuel are critical components of NPC-5, and careful planning is required to design and construct them.
We've provided many hospitals across the West Coast with campus assessments in close collaboration with each owner's staff and, in California, with the HCAI Seismic Compliance Unit. We customize assessments and compliance strategies to fit each facility's unique challenges while optimizing hospital operations, maintenance preferences, and reliability concerns.
Expert Design for Healthcare Facilities
We also design retrofits for MEPT and fire protection systems to meet NPC-5 requirements, keeping critical systems like HVAC, power, and water operational during and after seismic events. Those services include design, compliance reporting, integrating seismic data into emergency plans, and prioritizing uninterrupted patient care.
We combine deep expertise in non-structural seismic compliance with proactive solutions that prioritize safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. From planning to execution, our engineers, designers, commissioning agents and construction managers can assist healthcare systems to achieve their NPC-5 compliance milestones by 2030.