Alyse Falconer, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, associate principal, Point Energy Innovations, discusses the influence her high school physics teacher had on her decision to pursue engineering, shares her reaction to being named one of ASHRAE’s New Faces of Engineering award winners, and more.
Create a strategic plan prior to opening a building. The plan should include measures to make occupants feel safer, ensuring supply chain for critical items, such as filters and communication plans for building support and safety measures for occupants.
The ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force has been established to help deploy ASHRAE’s technical resources to address the challenges of the current pandemic and future epidemics as it relates to the effects of HVAC systems on disease transmission in health care facilities, the workplace, home, and public and recreational environments.
Looking beyond the immediate crisis, designers are brainstorming the ways codes and standards can be improved to prevent disease transmission in buildings.