After renovating this toilet, the café owner next door chased me to give a VIP card|Wuzhou

The design of hospital restrooms can also serve as a reference; handling all the details properly can optimize the patient experience.
Moreover, listening to this episode, renovating restrooms can also have the long-term effect of reducing expenses.

Listening Link

https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/643d15329361a4e7c3c43270

Program Introduction

Welcome to this episode of the talk show AkA With Flavorful Stand-Up Comedy :clap:

You can skip a meal, but you can’t hold back from using the restroom. Let’s review the public restrooms we’ve experienced:

In rural areas, the stench stings your eyes, mosquitoes swarm everywhere, and the walls are covered with all kinds of curses; in the city, women’s restrooms always have long lines, and men’s restrooms are crowded with smokers. The toilet seats are never free of footprints, the sinks have sensor dispensers like blind box toys, and don’t even mention those who rush in and out without flushing.

How should restrooms be improved? How should public restrooms funded by taxpayers be improved?

Wuzhou is the director of the Ecological Design and Technology R&D Center at the Wuxi Applied Technology Research Institute of Tsinghua University.

For more than ten years, Wuzhou and his team have reviewed a large amount of literature on restroom design and also investigated public restrooms of all sizes across the country.

In addition to using new materials and technologies, they also use counters to track the ratio of men to women using the restrooms. When renovating over a thousand restrooms in Beijing’s hutongs, they thoughtfully considered residents’ needs to dispose of and clean urinals.

Original illustrated article link

Friendly reminder: Please bear any discomfort caused by listening before meals :ear:

【Timeline】

01:48 Bottomless pit, endless books
03:55 Hutong restrooms: old, broken, small, black, smelly, and slippery
06:44 The old men in Beijing’s hutongs are truly elders, elders of all humanity
10:18 After renovating this restroom, the coffee shop owner next door chased me down to give me a VIP card
12:20 No partition at all, you open the door and it’s all white, people chatting inside
13:07 Why do restrooms smell? Why do men’s restrooms always smell worse than women’s?
16:00 How to scientifically dispose of urinals in Beijing hutongs
18:30 How to do precise business attraction in public restrooms?
21:30 Press once for 6 liters of water, saving an xxx amount per year
25:35 How to renovate rural restrooms? Do people have to boil a kettle of water every time after using the toilet?
27:30 We designed a squat-and-sit dual-use, waterless, self-sealing toilet
33:00 At least don’t add trouble for the next user

See you next time :waving_hand: