NEW! Advanced HVAC Design for High-Performance Healthcare Facilities (MENA)
Course Length: 3 hours
This course addresses the role of HVAC systems in helping to reduce Hospital Associated Infections (HAI), by explaining airborne vs contact transmission, and by showing that Hospital HVAC systems can either help or hinder efforts to reduce HAI through filtration, air patterns, air changes, dilution, temperature, humidity, UV, and pressurization.
The course will also refresh an attendant’s knowledge of production and dispersal of airborne infectious particles (such as Legionella and SARS-CoV-2), how people may be infected by such particles, and methods to control such particles. Operational issues and their effect on the design of central utility plants for healthcare facilities are discussed as well. Part two of the course will define the ventilation system design requirements as per Standard ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE 170-2021 and ASHRAE Standard 241-2023.
Recommended References
ASHRAE HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics, 2013
ASHRAE Standard 170-2021, Ventilation in Healthcare Facilities
Course Instructor
Samir Traboulsi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Fellow Life Member ASHRAE
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