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Content DescriptionANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170 offers guidance,regulation, and mandates to designers and operators of health care facilities.The revised 2021 edition incorporates 17 addenda to the 2017 standard.Theupdated standard includes thefollowing significant changes:Revisedscope, with improved guidance on thermal comfort conditions providedExtensivemodifications to address the Outpatient and Residential sectionsAdditionof a new outpatient ventilation table to address nonacute-type spacesExtensiverevisions to air filtration requirementsAdditionof new columns in the ventilation tables to prescribe filtration requirementand designate unoccupied turndownExpandedguidance on separation distance requirements for varied intake and exhaustarrangements, coordinating with related ASHRAE Standard 62.1 dataExpanded requirements to allow airborneinfectious isolation room exhaust discharge to general exhaust under certainconditionsImproved guidance on space ventilationrequirements needed for anesthetic gas useClarificationof Class 1/Class 2/Class 3 imaging in coordination with FGIReviseddefinition of “invasive procedure”Improvedguidance related to behavioral and mental health Most notably,the 2021 edition incorporates content in support of the new frameworkintroduced in 2017, which expanded the standard into three distinct sections:hospital spaces, outpatient spaces, and residential healthcare spaces inalignment with the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) publications.This book also exists in the following packages...Subscription InformationMADCAD.com ASHRAE subscriptions are annual and access is concurrency based (number of people that can access the subscription at any given time).
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About ASHRAEASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members worldwide. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today.
ASHRAE was formed as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers by the merger in 1959 of American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHAE) founded in 1894 and The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE) founded in 1904.
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