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ASHRAE Offers Course on the Role of HVAC Systems on Infection Control

March 23, 2020
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The course, “Designing and Operating High-Performing Healthcare HVAC Systems,” is one of 11 offerings in ASHRAE’s Spring online instructor-led course series, taking place on April 7.
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BSL-3 Space Pressurization

Maintaining Proper Pressure Cascades Are Crucial to Contain Laboratory Contaminants

Maintaining proper pressure cascades are crucial to contain contaminants.
Erik Eaves P.E.
November 21, 2018
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Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) space pressurization is critical to reducing the potential spread of infectious diseases in laboratories.


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A Physical View IAQ

Have You Vaccinated Your Building?

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Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch, CIC
February 5, 2018
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What we can learn from guinea pigs, the flu, and relative humidity.


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Tomorrow's Environment

Establishing An Infection Control Workorder System

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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
February 2, 2018
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A set of inspection guidelines can go a long way in eliminating HAIs.


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A Physical View IAQ

The ROI Of Health

It’s time to bring occupant health tracking into building performance metrics.
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Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch, CIC
January 5, 2018
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What is the value of a healthy and productive human being in a building? If you go to work with a cold, work slowly, and perhaps infect your co-worker, how much money has your employer lost? What are the unseen influences of your office building, hospital room, classroom or home on your health and performance?


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HVAC Systems In Hospitals

HVAC Systems In Hospitals

Start with the basic mission, then move on to HAIs, air changes, and other challenges in this singularly demanding environment.
Dan Koenigshofer, P.E., MSPH, HFDP Pavel Likhonin, P.E., CEM
October 11, 2017
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HVAC systems provide comfort and quality air for patients, staff, and visitors in hospitals. Comfort is generally determined by temperature, humidity, and air speed.


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Renovating Operating Rooms

Renovating Operating Rooms To Meet Modern Medical Advancements

While the latest surgical technologies lead the push for more OR suite square footage, they also contribute to ever-tighter ceiling space. Add updated requirements for IAQ and electricity, and any renovation team needs to sharpen its strategy in advance of this delicate operation.
Gary Hamilton P.E., LEED
October 9, 2017
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Today’s operating rooms are inefficient and overcrowded, and the turnover between cases is often lengthy and variable.


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A Physical View IAQ

The Magic In Air

The patient room’s microbiome makes unhelpful advances, but we can foster a better environment to resist.
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Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch, CIC
July 6, 2017
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Most of us in the developed world spend the majority of our time indoors, breathing clean-smelling air that is mechanically warmed or cooled and then perhaps filtered and recirculated.


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Nortec healthcare symposium to address HAIs, hospital IAQ

May 17, 2017
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Nortec Humidity says it has gathered together some of the nation's leading experts in the operation of healthcare environments for its 2017 Healthcare Symposium.


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Tomorrow's Environment

CAD IC Documents vs. Court IC Documents

Find out how CAD can play an important role in infection control.
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Howard McKew, P.E., C.P.E.
July 8, 2016
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Probably a year before 9/11, I was asked my thoughts along the lines of, “What else should we commission beyond the standard building systems?” My client was the project engineer at the Department of Defense in the Pentagon. I suggested “commission project record drawings.” I guess you could say I made up the task of commissioning record drawings, but I got my point across.
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