A website, sponsored by AIHA, featuring expert, industry-specific guidance for both businesses and consumers to safely re-open and re-engage as they emerge from the COVID-19 quarantines.
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On May 5th, 2020 the IEA EBC building energy codes working group is hosting a webinar with guidance from ASHRAE and REHVA to discuss the safe operation of buildings and strategies to maintain healthy indoor air quality.
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IEQ-GA Member REHVA, in collaboration with Build Up EU, organized the webinar “How to operate and use building services during the COVID-19 crisis” (28/04/2020, 12.00 CET). This webinar explored with top experts key notions about indoor environments (Indoor Environmental Quality, … Continue reading
ASHRAE has developed proactive guidance to help address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) concerns with respect to the operation and maintenance of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.
The ASHRAE COVID-19 Preparedness Resources webpage, ashrae.org/COVID19, provides easily accessible resources from ASHRAE to building industry professionals.
On March 18th, 2020 AiCARR released on its website the document “Protocol for risk reduction of SARS-CoV2-19 diffusion in dealthcare facilities with the aid of air-conditioning and ventilation systems”. This new protocol is intended to complement the previous on for aspects relating to healthcare environments. The document is available for download here.
The Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE) has published recommendations for operating air conditioning and ventilation systems during the coronavirus. The document is available for download here
AiCARR has released its position on HVAC system operation during SARS-COVID-19 emergency. The document is available for download here.
For the October 2020 issue of the REHVA Journal, IEQ-GA will work together with REHVA to collect technical articles to create a special COVID-19 edition of the journal.
Please, submit your articles by email to nm@rehva.eu or jh@rehva.eu before the deadline 17 September 2020. Please remember to check the REHVA Journal guidelines for authors before submitting your article
On April 3, REHVA updated its COVID-19 guidance document with the following revisions and additions:
- Latest information on the airborne transmission and implications to HVAC systems was added;
- Ventilation continuous operation guidelines were updated to be explicit;
- SARS-CoV-2 stability data at different temperatures and relative humidity was added;
- Heat recovery equipment guidance was revised including the recommendation of inspection;
- Guidance for room level circulation units was complemented;
- HVAC maintenance personnel protection recommendation was added;
- A summary of 14 points of practical measures for building services operation was added.
On the COVID-19 guidance webpage REHVA published also an updated collected bibliography, a Frequently Asked Questions section as well as the available translations of the documents.
ASHRAE announced a Society-wide effort to respond to the current global COVID-19 pandemic and provide guidance on how to ensure that buildings are prepared for future epidemics.
The ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force has been established to help deploy ASHRAE’s technical resources to address the challenges of the current pandemic and future epidemics as it relates to the effects of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems on disease transmission in healthcare facilities, the workplace, home, public and recreational environments. The task force will also provide recommendations for setting up temporary field hospitals in convention centers, arenas and indoor stadia to deal with surges.
The primary role of the task force is to maintain communication with members, industry partners, building owners, facility operators, government agencies and the general public…
>> Read more here: https://www.ashrae.org/about/news/2020/ashrae-epidemic-task-force-established