Proper building ventilation has been a basic need in modern building performance for decades, yet, somehow, it remains one of the greatest difficulties for sustainable modern building design. 

As we move into summer, many unanswered questions about the COVID-19 pandemic remain. Who gets sick and why? 

Engineering plays a definitive role when it comes to establishing the functional requirements of an occupied or unoccupied space’s supply air methods and devices. 

In today’s HVAC systems, both the heating and the cooling functions are almost always delivered through the same duct and diffuser systems. 

We now have the mechanical equipment to create protective buildings, the tools to measure and track the connections between indoor climates, and the computing capabilities to correlate the data to tell us if we are doing things right.

The current illnesses from the new coronavirus outbreak, and the associated human fear, has renewed people’s interest in the potential of the indoor environment to contain disease transmission. 

HVAC system designers are faced with unique challenges when attempting to design energy-efficient HVAC systems

Outbreaks of viral infections are unpredictable. We are currently dealing with one caused by a virus labelled COVID-19 which originated in Wuhan, China. 

New HVACR products travel a long, convoluted path to fruition.