Hot hospital carparks – An avoidable risk for patients and visitors? 

The likelihood that a person with high vulnerability to heat will use a hospital carpark is exponentially greater compared to any other carpark. Documenting air, surface and feels like temperatures, the project will establish benchmarks for temperature regimes in asphalt and concrete carparks. Results of the project will be used to inform planners and operators of carparks how to improve resilience of hospitals during increasingly hot summers. Most importantly, this project can develop a beacon function which (a) raises awareness of the issue with planners and operators of hospital carparks and (b) helps improving public health more broadly by encouraging other carpark operators to address the issue of heat.

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