Best Practices on HVAC Design to Minimize the Risk of COVID-19 Infection within Indoor Environments

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Alexandre Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gaspar, Pedro Dinis, Hamandosh, Aseel, de Aguiar, Eliandro Barbosa, Guerra Filho, Antonio Carlos, de Souza, Heraldo José Lopes
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/956
• topic: Covid 19; Pandemic; Contamination; Strategies; Guidelines; Best practices

The spread of Coronavirus is causing in the society all around the world a considerable degree of fear, worry and concern and particularly among healthcare workers that are at increased risk for infection. This paper gathers the strategy/guidelines to reduce the contamination in Intensive care unit (ICU) and in allthe hospital environment. The ASHRAE and REHVA guidelines applied the UV-C Lamps, Pressure control filtration, Restroom actions and Humidity control to reduce the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in ICU. The role of infection control in the design of hospitals is increasing every day. This paper highlights the role of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning minimizing the risk of infection from airborne transmission within the built environment through the application of best practices.