ICRA Certified Contractor
Infection Control Risk Assessment. The highest standard of safety for Cincinnati's healthcare renovations and clinical buildouts.
Patient Health Precedes Construction
When working inside an occupied hospital, ambulatory surgery center, or medical clinic, standard construction practices put lives at risk. An ICRA certified contractor employs specialized engineering controls to absolutely prevent the migration of airborne particulate matter.
- Rigid Containment: Using advanced hard-wall barriers and pressurized containment zoning.
- Negative Air Pressure: Installing and monitoring massive HEPA air scrubbers to guarantee dust is filtered and safely exhausted from the sterile environment.
- Anteroom Protocols: We construct enclosed sticky-mat vestibules to vacuum and de-suit workers before they re-enter public medical corridors.
HVAC Isolation
Critical ceiling space management to seal off hospital returns from drawing in lethal construction pathogens.
Joint Commission Ready
Daily site checklists and documentation logging precisely align with state regulatory and Joint Commission audits.
All ICRA Classes Covered
From routine maintenance (Class I) inside active corridors to high-risk structural demolition (Class IV) near immunocompromised oncology wings.
Proven on a live ICRA project
For UC Health, RCG delivered a dual-suite physicians' office buildout inside an occupied medical facility — selective demolition, MEP rough-in, and active infection-control containment — with both suites turned over turnkey, on schedule.
See the UC West Chester ICRA case study →More healthcare work on working campuses
At UC Health's Midtown campus, RCG rebuilt a Facial Plastics procedure suite room by room inside a working medical office building, with the building's daily operations undisturbed. In West Chester, RCG re-planned a UC Health physician practice suite in place while the practice on the other side of the building stayed open.
What Your ICRA Plan Covers Before Work Starts
An ICRA plan is written for one project, not pulled from a binder. Before the first barrier goes up, ours sets out:
- Risk assessment. The type of construction activity weighed against the patient population in the adjacent areas. That sets the class of precautions, I through IV.
- Containment. Where rigid barriers, anterooms and negative air machines go, and the route workers and debris take in and out.
- HVAC isolation. Which returns and supplies are sealed so construction dust cannot enter the facility's ventilation.
- Monitoring and documentation. Particulate monitoring and daily inspection logs that your infection-control team and Joint Commission surveyors can review.
How the four classes differ is laid out on our Healthcare Renovations page and in the ICRA Contractor Guide.
Four Questions to Ask Any ICRA Contractor
Ask us these first, then ask everyone else on your bid list:
- Are your on-site superintendents individually ICRA certified? A company-level claim is not enough. The person running your job every day has to hold the certification.
- Can you show me the containment plan for this specific project? It should exist in writing before the first day of work.
- What particulate monitoring equipment do you use? The answer should be a particle counter, not a guess.
- Do you also hold OSHA 30? ICRA covers infection control. OSHA 30 covers construction safety. You want both.
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