ASHRAE Conference Seminars
Seminars from 2017 and after are avaiable for free download in MP4 and PDF format. Older seminar recordings can be purchased in ASHRAE's bookstore
2020 Winter Conference
Seminar 21 -- Putting People First: The Healing Power of Indoor Air
21-1. Putting People First: The Healing Power of Indoor Air
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21-2. Low Ambient Humidity Impairs Barrier Function and Innate Resistance Against Infl uenza Infection
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21-3. Operating and Intensive Care Room Hospital Acquired Infection Prevention Safety Surveillance System
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2019 Winter Conference
Seminar 1 : Updating Scientific Evidence about the Effects of Low Humidity on People
1-1. RP–1630, “Update the Scientific Evidence for Specifying Lower Limit Relative Humidity Levels for Comfort, Health and IEQ in Occupied Spaces”
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1-2. 40 Is the New 20, Balanced Air-Hydration for Health!
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1-3. Limiting Criteria for Human Exposure to Low Humidity
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Seminar 37 -- Space Pressurization for Infection Control and Hospital Accreditation
37-1. Controlling Contaminants with Space Pressurization
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37-2. Creating a Program to Identify and Monitor Pressurized Spaces in a Hospital
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Seminar 56 -- Humidity IS Health
56-1. The Effects of Indoor-Air Relative Humidity on Health Outcomes and Cognitive Function in Residents in a Long-term Care Facility
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56-2. The Impact of Steam Humidification on Influenza Virus in Preschool Classrooms
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56-3. New Options! Fogging Systems in Healthcare Applications
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56-4. Estimating the Break-even Point of the Most Common Steam and Adiabatic Systems
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2015 Winter Conference
Seminar 49 -- Isolation Room Design, Research and Construction (Case Study)
2014 Annual Conference
Seminar 27 -- Airborne Particle and Bacteria Control Technologies and Flow Demand Control for Energy Conservation in Critical and Controlled Environments
ASHRAE Conference Papers
Conference papers from 2017 and after are avaiable for free download in PDF format. Older papers can be purchased in ASHRAE's bookstore.
2019 Annual Conference
KC-19-C021 -- Infectious Passenger Isolation System for Aircraft
KC-19-C020 -- Designing Simplified Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms to Reduce Infection Rate in Future Pandemics
2017 Annual Conference
LB-17-C005 -- An Efficient Ventilation Configuration for Preventing Bioaerosol Exposures to Health Care Workers in Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms
2016 Annual Conference
ST-16-004 (GIA 15-16) -- Assessing Effectiveness of Ceiling-Ventilated Mock Airborne Infection Isolation Room in Preventing Hospital-Acquired Influenza Transmission to Health-Care Workers
2015 Winter Conference
CH-15-C017 -- Effectiveness of a Local Ventilation/Filtration Intervention for Health-Care Worker Exposure Reduction to Airborne Infection in a Hospital Room
2014 Winter Conference
NY-14-C023 -- Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) in Hospital HVAC Decreases Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
2012 Winter Conference
CH-12-C057 -- Assessment of Health-Care Worker Exposure to Pandemic Flu in Hospital Rooms
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Conferences
IAQ 2010
Identifying Source Location of SARS Transmission in a Hospital Ward
Investigation of the Relationship between Probability of SARS Infection and Ventilation
Impact of a Moving Person on Transmission of Airborne Contaminants in Airliner Cabins
IAQ 2007
Health Risk Associated with HVAC System Microbial Contamination in Healthcare Facilities
IAQ 2004
Airborne Microflora in a Respiratory Ward
Isolation Room Ventilation Design Case Studies
When Is Minimum Not Enough? Air Filtration in Medical Facilities