ACR Philosophy and Practice: Health-Care Facilities

Health care facilities are the only spaces where an ASHRAE-authored standard uses air changes exclusively. This presentation looks at the origins of health care ACRs, their intents, and changes over time. It discusses the outcomes addressed by those ACRs, and how those same outcomes could be addressed using alternate methodologies.  It also looks at some of the leading health care air quality management strategies used abroad, and how those could be adopted domestically.