Creating Flexible and Connected Healthcare Facilities to Support Communities’ COVID-19 Response

Michael Mandilakis, a Johnson Controls project manager in Cleveland, Ohio, works with customers every day to create healthy, safe and connected environments. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he and his engineering team rose to the occasion to transform a medical education campus into a field hospital capable of accommodating 1,000 COVID-19 patients. Working in partnership with CBRE, the team developed a proposed plan within 48 hours to retrofit the building and create a highly flexible and intelligent environment, one that would let doctors and nurses focus on patient care.