Building and Renovation Projects
Clinical engineers have technical expertise and basic engineering skills; therefore, health care facilities rely on clinical engineers during renovation and building projects. It is not uncommon for the clinical engineer to be the only degreed engineer in the health care facility. Clinical engineers assist architects in the design and layout of special systems relating to medical devices during building and renovation projects. The specific section on blueprint drawings concerning nurse-call systems and other electronic or electromechanical devices is referred to as special systems. In many instances, clinical engineers may be