Create a strategic plan prior to opening a building. The plan should include measures to make occupants feel safer, ensuring supply chain for critical items, such as filters and communication plans for building support and safety measures for occupants.

ASHRAE announced an effort to respond to the pandemic and provide guidance on ensuring buildings are prepared for future epidemics.

ASHRAE has published two statements to define guidance on managing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Expanded guidance available on ASHRAE’s newly updated COVID-19 resources webpage.

Particularly when modifying an HVAC system, the wrong decisions could have adverse effects not only to the building itself but also to public health.

This month’s B2B focuses on Integrated Project Delivery.

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 HVAC systems on disease transmission in health care facilities, the workplace, home, and public and recreational environments.

Looking beyond the immediate crisis, designers are brainstorming the ways codes and standards can be improved to prevent disease transmission in buildings.