High Performing Healthcare Facilities, Design Considerations & Applications
Mon Apr 25, 08:30 - Mon Apr 25, 17:00
Durban - Venue TBC
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ASHRAE South African Chapter will host a technical course on high performing healthcare facilities, design considerations & applications
This course provides a discussion of the fundamentals of system design for healthcare facilities, design considerations, the basic methodology of HVAC design, psychrometrics, energy, and sustainability goals of high-performance healthcare facilities. In addition, this course will cover definitions of the key elements of high-performance in healthcare, control sequences and set points, and energy conservation strategies and relationships to temperature/relative humidity
requirements.
Learning Objectives
• Describe the fundamentals of healthcare heating and cooling systems
• Explain how psychrometrics is applied to healthcare
• Explain the Basic Methodology of HVAC Design for Surgery Suites and Radiology Suites
• Explain the Basic Methodology of HVAC Design for Isolation Rooms, Intensive Care Units and Imaging Rooms
• Explain unique HVAC design for different spaces
• Explain the relationship of infection control to HVAC design
• Explain how health-care HVAC systems can be designed with energy conservative strategies and pitfalls
• Learn how and why the HVAC performance Standards in S-170 evolved and where they might go
• Learn implications of various energy conservation strategies on temp/humidity and infection control
• Learn how to translate end-user requirements into control sequences and setpoints for the entire HVAC system
• Key elements of a high-performing hospital
• Role of HVAC systems in high-performing hospitals
• Key literature. Familiarize with the 2013 ASHRAE HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics.
ASHRAE Standard 170, Ventilation in Health Care Facilities
• Role of the HVAC system in infection control
• Engineering designs that can help or hurt achieving high performance
• Audience: Experienced healthcare engineers
• Lessons Learned—Mistakes I have made
The course will be a one-day event to be hosted in the city of Durban.
25 April 2022
Please note only 25 spots are open for this event.