ASHRAE publishes revised health care ventilation standard
A revised ASHRAE standard will aim to provide the minimum requirements for health care ventilation systems in order to accomplish environmental, infection, and odor control.
ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170-2013, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities, was written by ASHRAE and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). When the standard was first published in 2008, it was the first American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard in the nation to specifically address ventilation in health care facilities, according to ASHRAE.