Lunch + Learn Online PD Session - Hospital Ventilation Retrofits
Wed, 15 Nov
|https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85764444638
Join Professor Paul Cooper as he explores examples of space-constraint and ventilation retrofits deployed in the Coid pandemic, the experimental methods used and the effectiveness in reducing risk of infection, with a special case study of the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) Retro
Time & Location
15 Nov 2023, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AEDT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85764444638
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About the Event
The presentation will provide an overview of an ongoing study into the effectiveness of a number relatively simple and cost-effective ventilation retrofits that have been installed across a range of hospitals in a particular Local Health District in New South Wales over the past three years. The key retrofits covered in the presentation include:
a) installation of additional partitioning and doors in wards to constrain infection transmission between occupants/spaces;
b) installation of portable air purification units with HEPA filters; and
c) of negative pressure to rooms/wards in which infectious patients might be located.
The presentation will provide examples of such retrofits in a number of different types of hospital together with numerical simulations of the performance of such retrofits, and field measurements including measurement of tracer gas concentration as a proxy for potential infection transmission risk.
Paul is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong’s Sustainable Buildings Research Centre…