Updated October 2, 2025 In Part 1 of this series, we explored the key factors in choosing prefabricated modular walls — from project timelines to compliance and cost. In Part 2, we’ll go deeper, comparing drywall with modular wall systems to reveal the hidden costs, risks, and opportunities that should guide your decision.
Choosing Prefabricated Modular Walls: Part 1
Updated October 2, 2025 Choosing prefabricated modular walls starts with understanding your project’s goals. Are you looking for speed, flexibility, or long-term performance? The modular wall market has grown rapidly in recent years, with solutions designed for permanent installations as well as temporary containment. Knowing how to frame your decision up front will save time,… Read more »
What’s the Difference Between an Anteroom and a Buffer Room?
What is an Anteroom Used For? An anteroom is a small room that leads into a larger room. For healthcare construction and renovation projects, anterooms provide a space to don and remove protective clothing, store PPE, and provide a transition airlock to the construction spaces.
Renovation Lessons Learned From 2022: Reader Favorites
As we head into the New Year, it’s worth noting some of the most popular topics covered over the past 12 months. Following are the Top Five blog posts that resonated most with our growing audience of contractors, project managers, facilities managers, infection preventionists, and others tasked with eliminating disruption during occupied renovations.
Effective Dust Control in Healthcare Settings
Dust control in healthcare can seem like a never-ending battle. While it’s challenging to keep facilities clean, it’s critical to keep patients safe. Dust can introduce allergens into the air, transport bacteria, and increase healthcare-acquired infections (HAI’s).
Cost-Effective Construction Barriers for Contractors
Contractors can spend a lot of time and money putting up temporary walls or barriers during construction or renovation projects. There’s the cost of materials, the labor to install, and the expense of tearing it down, disposing of it, and cleaning it up afterward.
The Benefits – And Limitations – of Polycarbonate Wall Panels
Updated September 10, 2025 Temporary wall systems are essential during construction and renovation, especially in occupied facilities. For years, many contractors have relied on plastic sheets or drywall to block off areas. But those options are messy, inefficient, and not reusable. Plastic sheets rarely hold up. Drywall drives costs higher with material, labor, and disposal.
Patient Satisfaction Includes More Than Positive Outcomes
Healthcare success stories typically speak to the importance of doctors, nurses, and cutting-edge equipment at the point of care. However, an increasing number of hospitals and outpatient facilities are focusing on patient experience as the lynchpin connecting key performance indicators with achieving their patient-centered goals.
Dividing Occupied Spaces With Office Wall Partitions
We spend a lot of time on this blog discussing how our modular wall systems are particularly well-suited to healthcare construction and renovation projects. Although we’re obviously proud of the fact that our ICRA-compliant RealWall™, LiteBarrier™ and FireblockWall™ reusable temporary containment protects patients, caregivers and staff from dangerous construction dust and risks associated with fire… Read more »
Topping Off Our One-Hour Fire-Rated Containment System: FireblockCap
Following last year’s successful launch of FireblockWall™, the first-of-its-kind, one-hour fire-rated reusable temporary containment system, STARC Systems has introduced a clever new accessory that eliminates the need for facility managers and contractors to build through the spaghetti above the ceiling – or construct a soffit to the deck – in order to meet code requirements… Read more »