Four criteria to designing for IAQ in health care settings: the patients, staff, the building, and building’s external environment 

The Fate and Transport of Indoor Microbiological Aerosols (FaTIMA) tool considers factors including ventilation, filtration and aerosol properties to estimate the concentration of aerosols a person might encounter in a room. 

Ambulatory surgery centers and office-based surgery centers often have overlapping programs that can lead to confusion in categorization and subsequent design. 

Will health care facilities return to normal or evolve into something new?

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

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. 

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