Certain rooms within a health care building should be positively or negatively pressurized with respect to surrounding areas.
Regulatory Compliance
A building’s HVAC system is designed to perform several tasks: filter, cool, heat, humidify, dehumidify, pressurize, and/or exhaust. Each of these tasks affects indoor air quality. For example, if incomÂing air is not properly filtered, excessive dust from the outdoors is drawn into the building.…
Understand the importance of air filtration in hospitals and the use of hospital air purifiers to maintain clean and safe environments. Learn more.
The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) is a nonprofit organization that works to develop guidelines for designing and building hospitals and other health care facilities.