Sunday, January 24, 2016: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Standards, Guidelines and Codes
Chair:
Dave Kahn, P.E., RMH Group
Technical Committee: 01.04 Control Theory and Application
Codes and standards establish minimum levels of compliance. Medical facilities have minimum levels understandably higher than many other fields. However, as the world of controls technologies and sequences of operation have advanced, medical construction codes and standards have not kept pace. In many cases, this limits the ability of owners and operators to use newer technologies and controls capabilities to save energy while keeping medical facility occupants safe and comfortable. Speakers present case studies where some of these challenges have been successfully overcome, as well as approaches that can prove new technologies for inclusion in medical codes and standards.
1 Mandatory Energy Waste? This Owner Says NO!
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Travis R. English, P.E., Kaiser Permanente |
What other codes and standards can be used or evaluated to help in medical facility construction and specification? Several case studies will be presented with examples of surveying the landscape of other codes and standards to determine what should really apply and then creating unique solutions for the medical field.
2 What's in the Way of Better Codes and Standards?
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David Castillo, P.E., Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
The speaker will help session attendees understand the code barriers that can prevent the application of new technologies in medical construction, as well as the approaches that can be used to prove a new technology for inclusion in a code or standard.