The climate environment demonstration test scene of the module structure./photo courtesy of the Korea Institute of Construction Living Environment Test (KCL)

The Korea Institute of Construction Living Environment Test (Director Yoon Gap-seok, hereinafter KCL) announced on the 1st that it has been selected as a research institute for the project "Development of a commercialization model for mobile sound pressure isolation rooms capable of responding to disasters of infectious diseases, autonomous expansion, and rapid installation and dismantling" supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

This project is a support project for the commercialization of national transportation science and technology that supports the commercialization of products and technologies of small and medium-sized enterprises that have secured promising technologies. KCL will form an industry-academic cooperation group with Isol Tech (supervised), Sendori, and Hanbat University's industry-academic cooperation group to develop core technologies for K-quarantine.

is a technology that can be used as a general research facility in normal times and can be used as a negative pressure isolation room in pandemic situations. It is expected that hospitals will be able to solve the problem that it is difficult to immediately have a negative pressure isolation room because there is no utilization plan when it is not in a pandemic situation.

Participating organizations will start developing technology with the aim of commercialization in 2022, and KCL is responsible for empirical evaluation of the commercialization model of the mobile negative pressure isolation room and development of standard guidelines and guidelines. Isol Tech is in charge of developing a mobile ward structure that can be autonomously expanded and quickly installed and dismantled, Sendori will develop a separate heat recovery ventilation system and sterilization/killing virus device for negative pressure rooms, and Hanbat University Industry-Academic Cooperation Group will develop a design technique for optimizing the negative pressure isolation room facility system.

KCL Director Yoon Gap-seok said, "In the COVID-19 pandemic that has been going on for more than a year, the negative pressure isolation room that can treat critically ill patients is only 1% of the total number of confirmed patients," adding, "KCL will contribute to the spread of K-quarantine by developing the world's first multi-purpose mobile negative pressure isolation room.".