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, Aguiar,Eliandro Barbosa de, Guerra Filho,Antonio Carlos, Souza,Heraldo José Lopes de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132020000100334
• topic: Covid 19; pandemic; contamination; strategies; guidelines; best practices

Abstract 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 all the 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.