Why is IAQ of utmost importance in Hospitals / Nursing Homes?
Nowhere, is the importance of IAQ as critical as in Hospitals and health care facilities. Continual advances in medicine and technology necessitate the air-conditioning of hospitals and medical facilities. It is the need of the day, for health professionals as well as building designers to understand the health effects arising from poor indoor air quality and to understand how and what factors affect the indoor air quality in offices, auditoria, hospitals and nursing homes and what could be done to improve the air quality! Hospital airconditioning assumes a more important role than just the promotion of comfort. In many cases, proper airconditioning is a factor in patient therapy in some instances, it is the major treatment. However the relatively high cost of air conditioning, some times lead to an inadequate and improperly designed systems with not enough care to factor in specific requirements for ventilation, filtration and cross contamination. If outdoor air intakes are properly l
