Thurs, Dec 11, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Pakistan
ASHRAE Pakistan Chapter Lecture Hall, DHA Karachi

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 address 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.

Who Should Attend?
HVAC Designers and consultants, mechanical engineers working on healthcare construction or retrofits, commissioning agents and TAB professionals, healthcare facility directors, managers and engineers, hospital project managers and owners’ representatives, as well as architects with a focus on healthcare. Also suitable for code officials and inspectors

You Will Learn To:

• Identify the key elements of a high-performing hospital and define Role of HVAC systems in high-performing hospitals.
• Understand the importance of the HVAC system in infection control
• To refamiliarize the attendant with the detailed Engineering designs that can help or hurt achieving this high performance.
• Learn about ASHRAE Std. 170-2021 & ASHRAE Std. 241-2023
• Define the requirement HVAC system parameters such as temperature, air changes, humidity & filtration for specific hospital rooms.
• Recognize factors related to enhancing the high performance, particularly in Operating Rooms, Imaging Suites, laboratories, Pharmacies and Airborne Infectious Isolation.
• Understand the impacts of high-performance design on the improved patient safety, Healthcare facility quality and improved outcome.

Instructor:

 Samir Traboulsi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Fellow Life Member ASHRAE

Thurs, Dec 11, 2025 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM Pakistan
ASHRAE Pakistan Chapter Lecture Hall, DHA Karachi

Net zero energy buildings (NZEBs) are those which, on an annual basis, use no more energy from the utility grid than is provided by on-site renewable energy sources. These buildings use 50% to 70% less energy than comparable traditional buildings. The remaining energy use comes from renewable sources, like solar panels or wind turbines incorporated into the facility itself. The 3-hour course provides application knowledge of the design and operating principles for energy-efficient buildings and available technologies and systems to achieve NZEBs design. Building design strategies; review of current policy and regulation, energy, environmental and economic assessment of building’s performance; energy efficiency in HVAC, lighting, and appliances; and on-site renewable energy sources are topics covered.

You Will Learn To:

• Discuss Design Strategies to achieve NZEB
• Discuss Design Principles of Energy Efficient Buildings
• Describe Operating Principles of Energy Efficient Buildings

Instructor:

 Samir Traboulsi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Fellow Life Member ASHRAE