Rediroom wins Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2022

Mobile infection control

The need to spatially isolate patients with highly infectious diseases can present hospitals with enormous logistical problems, particularly in a pandemic, in which the number of infected patients exceeds the number of single-occupancy rooms. Rediroom offers a novel room-in-room concept that allows for the safe isolation of infectious patients or suspected cases on the ward. The modular system can be transformed into an isolation room by just one person in less than five minutes. To simplify storage and transport, the components are kept in a compact, movable cart and are only assembled and erected at the patient’s bed together with the accompanying single-use “canopy”. The colour-coded and alphanumerical stickers on the cart provide users with a step-by-step guide for assembly and dismantling. While it is in use, the cart offers useful storage space for personal protective equipment, hand sanitising materials and surface disinfectants. Rediroom comes with a number of design features that prevent transmission of pathogens through respiratory droplets and direct contact. They include a door mechanism that can be operated by foot, as well as a high-quality H14 HEPA filter, which removes particles down to 0.3 micrometres from the air. Rediroom thus ensures the highest level of safety for patients and staff without incurring large investment, maintenance or personnel costs.
 

Statement by the Jury

Rediroom is an impressive symbiosis of design, architecture and infection control. With its ingenious, innovative functionality, it introduces new strategies for isolating patients while ensuring their good care and treatment. The mobile concept and the fast, simple assembly and dismantling furthermore offer a high degree of flexibility that will suit a range of different situations.

‘Rediroom — Instant Patient Isolation Room’ Recognised in Australia’s International Good Design Awards for Design Excellence.

The winners of Australia’s peak international design awards were announced today during the 2021 Good Design Awards Week. The Good Design Awards are the highest honour for design and innovation in the country and reward projects across 12 design disciplines and 30 subcategories.

Rediroom — Instant Patient Isolation Room received a prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Engineering Design category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation.

The Australian Good Design Awards is the country’s oldest and most prestigious international awards for design and innovation with a proud history dating back to 1958. The Awards celebrate the best new products and services on the Australian and international market, excellence in architectural design, precinct design, engineering, fashion, digital and communication design, and reward new and emerging areas of design including design strategy, social impact design, design research and up-and-coming design talent in the Next Gen category.

The 2021 Good Design Awards attracted a record number of submissions with 933 design projects evaluated by more than 70 Australian and international Jurors, including designers, engineers, architects and thought leaders. Each entry was evaluated according to a strict set of design evaluation criteria which includes good design, design innovation and design impact. Projects recognised with an Australian Good Design Award demonstrate excellence in professional design and highlight the impact a design-led approach has on business success and social and environmental outcomes.

The Good Design Awards Jury commented: “With global cases of COVID-19 now over 200 million, and many healthcare systems struggling to provide the sort of safe isolation facilities needed to care for critically ill patients, this product has very strong global appeal. The innovation comes from finding a solution using standard methods, but in unique ways — and with a particular focus on speed of implementation. It’s an impressive design for many good reasons. This design scored highly on impact — for the benefits it can have in our current health crisis and future ones (antibiotic resistant bacteria), highly for innovation (a new design that adds value) and high for design. Overall, this is a highly professional piece of design that deserves to be recognised and celebrated in these Awards. Bravo.”

Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good Design Australia said: “Receiving an Australian Good Design Award is testament to embedding design excellence at the heart of a product, service, place or experience. Although 2021 continues to be another challenging year, it is incredibly inspiring to see designers and businesses working together to find innovative, customer-centric design solutions to local and global challenges and to see them recognised and rewarded for their efforts through these prestigious Awards.”

“The importance of embracing good design principles is now more important than ever as many businesses around the world have had to completely re-think their business strategies to remain competitive. The standard of design excellence represented in this year’s Awards is the best I’ve ever seen in my 25 years of running these Awards, an encouraging sign that the design sector is flourishing,” Dr. Gien went on to say.

Project Details

Project Title: Rediroom — Instant Patient Isolation Room

Designed in: Australia

Project Description:

Rediroom allows hospitals to add an extra isolation room in under 5 minutes – helping them deal with outbreaks and stop the spread of infection. A single person can transform Rediroom from a mobile cart into an air-filtered, fully operational isolation room in under 5-minutes. Rediroom provides a physical barrier, a host of smart design features and HEPA-filtration to remove 99.5% of infectious droplets from filtered air.

Designed by:

Care Strategic

Design + Industry (D+I)
GAMA Healthcare

Commissioned by:

GAMA Healthcare

Rediroom Awarded Good Design Award – Gold Award

Rediroom — Instant Patient Isolation Room received a prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Engineering Design category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation at this year’s Good Design Awards.

Care Strategic along with its partner GAMA Healthcare and collaborator Design + Industry received the award as part of the 2021 Good Design Week by Gooddesign.org.

The Good Design Awards Jury commented: “With global cases of COVID-19 now over 200 million, and many healthcare systems struggling to provide the sort of safe isolation facilities needed to care for critically ill patients, this product has very strong global appeal. The innovation comes from finding a solution using standard methods, but in unique ways — and with a particular focus on speed of implementation. It’s an impressive design for many good reasons. This design scored highly on impact — for the benefits it can have in our current health crisis and future ones (antibiotic resistant bacteria), highly for innovation (a new design that adds value) and high for design. Overall, this is a highly professional piece of design that deserves to be recognised and celebrated in these Awards. Bravo.”

Care Strategic’s Head of Design remarked, “This is a great achievement for the team. We were so happy to receive a Best in Class Award yesterday for the Rediroom for Product Design. And today’s win recognises the mechanical engineering complexity that has been hidden inside the Rediroom to make it an intuitive and easy to use device – to make it so fast and easy to deploy. Thank you Good Design and to all those who have made the Rediroom a success especially our clinical and design teams, and of course GAMA Healthcare and Design + Industry.”

The Australian Good Design Awards is the country’s oldest and most prestigious international awards for design and innovation with a proud history dating back to 1958. The Awards celebrate the best new products and services on the Australian and international market, excellence in architectural design, precinct design, engineering, fashion, digital and communication design, and reward new and emerging areas of design including design strategy, social impact design, design research and up-and-coming design talent in the Next Gen category.

The 2021 Good Design Awards attracted a record number of submissions with 933 design projects evaluated by more than 70 Australian and international Jurors, including designers, engineers, architects and thought leaders. Each entry was evaluated according to a strict set of design evaluation criteria which includes good design, design innovation and design impact. Projects recognised with an Australian Good Design Award demonstrate excellence in professional design and highlight the impact a design-led approach has on business success and social and environmental outcomes.

More information on the awards is available at www.good-design.org and www.gooddesignweek.org/day-three

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‘Rediroom — Instant Patient Isolation Room’ Recognised in Australia’s International Good Design Awards for Design Excellence.

 

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Rediroom Awarded Good Design Award – Best in Class

Rediroom has been awarded Best in Class for Product Design in the Medical and Scientific Category at this year’s Good Design Awards.

Care Strategic along with its partner GAMA Healthcare and collaborator Design + Industry received the award as part of the 2021 Good Design Week by Gooddesign.org.

Co-Founder and Head of Design at Care Strategic, James Burkwood, said, “We are excited to be recognised by our peers along with our good friends at Gama Healthcare and Design + Industry. The Rediroom has been a big part of our journey. It has given us opportunity to expand and strengthen our networks, to see what we can be achieved with good research and design thinking. We are seeing the Rediroom have a positive impact in the world…to now receive this award is a great honour!”

The Good Design Awards Jury praised the Rediroom for the intuitive and simple nature of the Rediroom’s deployment and use. James Burkwood said he was particularly pleased that this effort had been acknowledged, saying that the whole team had put considerable expertise into getting this right.

 The Good Design Awards Jury commented: “This is a timely and clever design that has the potential for enormous impact. Minimising cross contamination in hospitals is a global aim, particularly at the present time. The simple process of setting up the room, usage of colour-coded and numbered tabs is really intuitive. The HEPA filtration and ease of sterilising are critical features that have been addressed. The design also solves common challenges such as portability, being able to easily see the patient, and ensuring the entry/exit stays closed. Amazing!”

Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good Design Australia said: “Receiving an Australian Good Design Award is testament to embedding design excellence at the heart of a product, service, place or experience. Although 2021 continues to be another challenging year, it is incredibly inspiring to see designers and businesses working together to find innovative, customer-centric design solutions to local and global challenges and to see them recognised and rewarded for their efforts through these prestigious Awards.”

“The importance of embracing good design principles is now more important than ever as many businesses around the world have had to completely re-think their business strategies to remain competitive. The standard of design excellence represented in this year’s Awards is the best I’ve ever seen in my 25 years of running these Awards, an encouraging sign that the design sector is flourishing,” Dr. Gien went on to say.

More information on the awards is available at www.good-design.org and www.gooddesignweek.org/day-three

#2021 Good Design Awards Week

#Good Design Award Best in Class

#Design Awards

#Industrial Design

#Product Design

#Rediroom

#Medical

#Isolation

#Care Strategic

#design+industry

#GAMA healthcare