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The Inspecting and Maintaining Swinging Doors Handbook translates the codes and requirements for door safety in today’s hospitals into layman’s terms.

The ASHE Mechanical Systems Handbook for Health Care Facilities provides detailed information to support the design, operation, and maintenance of a facility’s mechanical systems. Along with chapters on powerhouse equipment, HVAC and air-handling systems and energy management, the handbook presents information on code compliance, alternative energy-saving strategies and testing HVAC systems.

Lunch & Learn | Learn through cases studies on how vacuum plumbing has provided “future proofing” for healthcare facilities.

Lunch & Learn | STARC | How ICRA 2.0™ Adoption is Impacting Healthcare Construction Jobsites

Lunch & Learn | Understanding Health Care Door Systems | Allegion

Lunch & Learn | Grainger | Strategies to Obtain Funding for Fire & Life Safety Compliance

This document outlines a team approach, starting with the health care organization leadership setting the expectations and cyber-risk mitigation tone for the project. When executive leadership empowers information technology, operational technology and facilities professionals, an effective cyber-risk mitigation plan can be enacted. A thoughtful cyber-risk process addresses the safety, efficiency and compliance goals of the health care facility.

Lunch & Learn | Learn how you can keep your hospitals and clients safe with up-to-date healthcare flushing best practices that mitigate the risk of Legionella and other waterborne pathogens.

Lunch & Learn | Become the expert on environmental monitoring of the spaces in healthcare facilities based on ASHRAE-170, USP-797 and USP-800 and understand how to specify proper monitoring devices to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize staff monitoring efforts.

This handbook lays out the processes and flow of a health care project, including planning, design and construction. It takes a sequential approach to each topic, addressing planning first, then the various design phases, construction of the project, and the operations and management throughout the project and following.

Use this HVA tool to assist your multidisciplinary group in assessing and prioritizing exercises for potential hazards/risk.

This code overlay will assist health care systems with their decarbonization efforts

Use these tools to ensure above-ceiling work in your facility is safe, effective and compliant.

Use this tool to assess your level of adoption of the most common energy conservation measures.

STI shows the best practices for building a solid Standard Operating Procedure for compliance processes in Life Safety barriers in the facility.

Lunch & Learn Series: | Reducing Risk during Healthcare Emergencies: | Future Trends in Facility Design | Healthcare design engineers and those retrofitting facilities must concentrate on crisis-proofing procedures away from partial load backups to protect patient care from the growing threats to our grid.

A brief overview of one of ASHRAE's newest water management standard, designed to reduce risk of water management systems

Capabilities in building automation technology continue to grow while new applications within facilities multiply

Taking account of current emissions helps to set the foundation for future energy efficiency investments