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HOSPITAL VENTILATION SYSTEMS
Regulations, Codes, and Standards

Steve Pennington
Washington State Department of Health

Monday, July 26, 2010
9:00 - noon

The Bertha Landes Room
Seattle City Hall
600 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA

Target Audience

Mechanical Design Consultants * Energy Consultants * Architects * Hospital Personnel

Topic Learn about the codes and guidelines that determine the minimum total supply air, minimum outside air, required pressure relationships, and allowed HVAC systems for each type of occupancy within a hospital. As energy efficiency gains importance, a careful understanding of limits set by health standards will be helpful to hospital facility engineers, designers, and energy consultants working at the interface between health, safety, and energy conservation.

• Introduction
  Who is Construction Review Services?
  What codes/ regulations apply?
  What is the FGI?
  CRS focus (infection control, life safety, function)
  What are the air requirements?
  History and future of code changes related to air exchange
  Trends in HVAC
  Options in design: prescriptive vs. engineered/ performance based
  Challenges in design/technology and function
  The good and the bad!
  Questions/ Discussion
  

Speaker Steve Pennington has been in the health care industry for 26 years, most of which were spent as an employee of major hospitals managing their capital construction projects. For the last 5 years, Steve has worked for the Department of Health’s Construction Review Services performing plan review and inspections, and providing technical assistance to medical institutions through-out the State. Steve is ICC certified as a commercial plan reviewer, and has extensive training in the NFPA standards and State building codes. He is involved in review of hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and out-patient clinics, and in making recommendations for related code revisions.
This seminar is free.

Sponsored by the Washington Department of Health, and Seattle City Light.
RSVP to phoebe.warren@seattle.gov.