What Are Fangcang Hospitals Built With? Prefabricated Panel Houses!

During the epidemic that broke out in January 2020, Wuhan addressed the greatest medical-capacity challenge of that time by building makeshift (fangcang) hospitals. Other cities later followed the same approach and treated many patients. These makeshift hospitals played a very important role. In fact, they are mainly built from prefab panel houses. A makeshift hospital is a temporary facility that provides a treatment venue for patients and medical staff, so prefab panel houses are the most suitable choice. Demand for medical space was extremely urgent then, and only this type of prefab panel house could be completed very quickly while also offering good thermal insulation, fire resistance, wind resistance, heat insulation, and earthquake resistance. Building prefab panel houses therefore solved the greatest difficulty at the time. Prefab panel houses may look ordinary, but they play a vital role in critical moments—their own advantages have helped solve accommodation needs for many people.