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December 17, 2020

Case Study: Expanding Negative Pressure Isolation Rooms in a Hospital

在COVID-19大流行期间,医院正在扩大隔离室的容量。Currently, Brownfield Regional Medical Center is using the AIIR Watch to create extra isolation rooms for any infectious disease patients in their facility.

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October 20, 2020

Case Study: Quarantine Safety in Schools

Reopening schools is always a challenge, made even more difficult this year by the pandemic. Now schools must also consider how to create a safe environment for both students and staff to use.SEEM Middle Schoolwas looking to do just that. SEEM is a collaborative school, meaning their students come from several communities because they were not making enough progress in either their previous placement or home district. With such a variety of students, SEEM is considered high needs and thus is staying open as their students benefit from in-person classes.

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October 15, 2020

Case Study: Negative Pressure in Dental Offices

Thedental industryis currently one of the most at-risk industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since dental procedures create significant aerosolized particles, the risk for contracting COVID-19 or other airborne diseases is high, and thus many dentists are looking for ways to make their offices safer for patients and staff. DCAA Dental was searching for a simple, accurate, economical, and highly visible method to visualize whether or not a room was safely negatively pressurized.

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March 05, 2020

Case Study: Managing Calibrations in a High Containment Lab

In critical environments handling dangerous viruses and materials, it is crucial to maintain HVAC integrity. This particular facility, a BSL-4 high containment lab, is looking for a solution to routinely calibrate their sensors. The containment rooms in this lab have concrete walls eighteen inches thick where they test dangerous strains in positive pressure containment suits tethered by dedicated airflow tubes.

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December 17, 2019

Case Study: Ensuring Accuracy in Any Environment with the AXD

机械设备需要精密元件以确保系统正常工作。没有精确的部件,机械系统就不能工作。这种系统的制造商依赖于其设备组件的生产商。该制造商提供的机械系统在全球所有气候条件下使用;在这种应用中,在短的系统操作时间内准确的读数是至关重要的。

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November 14, 2019

Case Study: Meeting Current and Future Codes with Setra FLEX

正在进行的改造和扩建导致医院重新考虑其目前和未来的关键环境监测。该医疗机构正在寻找符合现有和未来几年发布的任何新规范和指南的房间压力监测器。他们不希望安装的房间压力监测器只符合最低限度的代码要求;相反,他们希望满足要求,并监控许多ASHRAE标准170空间,这些空间并不严格要求监控。Monitoring is crucial for proper cleanliness conditions, and theJoint Commissionand CMS inspectors tend to scrutinize all ASHRAE 170 pressurized spaces.

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October 07, 2019

Case Study: Solving Room Pressure Monitor Compatibility Issues in a Hospital

Hospitals face a number of daunting tasks each day without also having to worry about the performance of the equipment on which they rely. The particular medical facility in question experienced abundant issues related to the products they employed. A lack of after-sale support combined with the unsophisticated UI of room pressure monitors and the vendor's reluctance to partner with the facility's BMS controls engineers escalated into long-term compatibility obstacles with the other networked devices. Coming up against these issues led the facility to realize they needed simple and intuitive customizable features that didn't require specialized programming knowledge to set up. In addition to all these issues related to room pressure monitors, they were searching for a solution to make their compounding pharmacy USP 800 compliant with regular particle counting, which they define as an interval of once every 15 minutes.

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