Individual and Institutional Contractors for Improved water and sanitation infrastructure approaches for health care facilities in the Pacific Islands

Scope of Work:
The purpose of the assignment is to undertake a feasibility study to support the development of improved design and construction processes for WASH infrastructure in health care facilities in selected Pacific Islands countries. The specific focus is on healthcare facilities, but approaches developed through this consultancy may be applicable to other infrastructure in the future. Also, approaches successfully used in improving WASH in Schools could be relevant and considered for WASH in health care facilities. The objective of the consultancy is to strengthen WASH construction practices in the Pacific Island countries through building knowledge on in-country and remote assessment/consultation, modular construction and alignment with Building Information Modelling approaches (ISO-19650).
Specifically, the consultancy will support:
1. Identification, specification and testing of tools for untrained personnel to provide information to engineers/architects by remote that can facilitate design and selection of modular water and sanitation infrastructure for healthcare facilities.
2. Identification, specification and testing of tools for health facility managers to remotely participate in validating design of modular water and sanitation infrastructure for healthcare facilities.
3. Development of digital models that include specifications and costing to support procurement of modular water and sanitation infrastructure.
4. Development of guidelines for installation of modular water and sanitation infrastructure by local contractors with limited technical expertise.
5. Capacity building of national partners such as health facility management staff, selected local contractors??
The above activities should be aligned with global best practices and standards in prefabricated building design, building information modelling approaches and adhere to relevant national standards and building codes as appropriate.
Tools developed or recommended as part of this consultancy should wherever possible use Open Standards, Open Data, Open Source, and Open Innovation. Critically tools should fit in with existing platforms and tools as much as possible.
Due to extensive travel restrictions associated with COVID-19 it is proposed that this work will be undertaken largely by remote and in-country if possible.