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2020 Event Successes
The Home Building Crossroads Webinar with Peter Yost Held on May 15th, the Home Building Crossroads webinar with lecturer Peter Yost was a highly anticipated and successful event. A big thank you goes out to AdvanTech/ Zip brands for graciously developing and sponsoring this event. Peter artfully discussed three topics providing 3 HSW learning units. These included "Building Science Foundation: Keeping our Buildings Safe" where we explored the 2020 codes, air sealing requirements and the basics of blower door testing. Secondly, the "Building Science Puzzles" portion investigated vapor and moisture infiltration through the building envelope and reviewed the best practices to negate these forces. Finally, within the "Architectural Details of the Control Layer" section, we investigated concepts and details to provide the best energy efficiencies in the building envelope and the areas most susceptible to thermal bridging. The online event was a huge
Is Sustainable Design the Answer to the Post-COVID-19 Built Environment? On Thursday June 18th, panelists from d2d Green Design PLANNING and Setty & Associates gave a great presentation discussing the effects of COVID-19 on the built environment and strategies to provide a healthy and comfortable workspace as offices begin to safely reopen. First, we explored the need to conduct building conditions assessment for indoor air, potable water, space layout, and promotion of hygiene etiquette to ensure health, and safety of occupants for safe re-occupancy of buildings. Additionally, we looked into ensuring resilient and adaptive environments that promote sustainable design, reducing contact on surfaces, occupant health, flexible design and self-sustaining design practices. We also reviewed health-oriented design approaches with toxin free or reduced toxin environment focusing on healthy materials and indoor air quality. This included exploring HVAC design strategies for healthy and sustainable indoor environment and through ASHRAE guidelines, commissioning, testing and other tools. A big thank you goes out to Baani Singh, Seema Pandya, Alec Strongin and Sara Arias for all their hard work in preparing this webinar. We had a great turn out and look forward to you joining in on our next event. Plan for physical distancing
The intent is to ensure that while the building is operating your ventilation schedule should assist in removing bioburden during, pre-, and postoccupancy of the building.
Provide isolation rooms
One-way traffic flow (ingress-egress)
Flush the building for a duration sufficient to reduce concentration of airborne infectious particles by 95% . For a wellmixed space, this would require 3 air changes of outside air.
Back to back desks or with clear barriers when facing each other
VENTILATION CONTROL
Limit number of people/ seating and furniture mobility
In lieu of calculating the air change rate, pre- and post-occupancy flushing periods of 2 hours (for a total of 4 hours) may be used since this should be sufficient for most systems meeting minimum ventilation standards.
Temporary/movable partitions
Staggered occupancy
SOURCE: STEELCASE AND AIA
MENTAL WELLBEING • CREATING SENSE OF COMMUNITY • ENHANCED DAYLIGHT AND LIGHTING FOR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM • SUPPORT BEAUTY AND EQUITY • COMMUNITY ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT • PROMOTE
OCCUPANT SAFETY
SOURCE: AIA, WELL, FITWEL, ILFI, LEED
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