Balancing energy and indoor air quality

摘要

Engineers are often challenged with improving IAQ issues to ensure occupant safety and comfort. Whether the functions of the building are to heal patients, learn new healthcare practices, or conduct experiments, air quality is crucial to maintaining a healthy environment. While maintaining these environments we are faced with a give-and-take situation. We need the IAQ to be at the highest quality, but we are also striving to maintain construction and operation costs. Engineers and design teams have made great strides in creating a balanced approach to the energy and IAQ trade-off with dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS) that fit the needs of the facility and its inhabitants.