The document is designed to ensure negative-pressure isolation rooms are working properly and ready to provide best-in-class care.

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.

Approximately 20% of AEC firms intend to lay off employees as a result of the coronavirus, states an Engineered Systems/Clear Seas industry study.

Looking beyond the immediate crisis, designers are brainstorming the ways codes and standards can be improved to prevent disease transmission in buildings.

Technologically advanced software, modeling helped shape the seven-story NeuroDiagnostic Institute (NDI) in Indianapolis.

OSHA offers guidance for preventing the spread of COVID-19, including safe work practices and appropriate personal protective equipment based on the risk level of exposure.

ACEC is taking steps to serve as a resource for news and information as well as to collect information about how the coronavirus is impacting engineering firms in order to share best practices and effectively advocate for the industry's needs.

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

The ASHRAE COVID-19 Preparedness Resources webpage, ashrae.org/COVID19, provides easily accessible resources from ASHRAE to building industry professionals.

Power management company Eaton and its partner electrical contractors and distributors were part of the construction project at the new Huoshenshan and Leishenshan Hospitals that delivered an additional 2,500 hospital beds to the front line of this global health emergency.