Medical and Healthcare

Ventilation is used extensively in healthcare premises for primary patient treatment in operating departments, intensive treatment units and isolation units. It is also installed to ensure compliance with quality assurance of manufactured items in pharmacy and sterile supply departments and to protect staff from harmful organisms and toxic substances.

Keeping a clean environment, free from contaminants while dealing with medical areas is of the utmost importance.

The design of laboratory projects will generally be biased towards the design of the ventilation system for fume control, containment, or providing specific close environmental conditions for either animal welfare or research processes.

Mechanical ventilation for dental surgeries needs to provide a high level of reliability, as the ventilation is critical to the proper functioning of the building and the business conducted within it.

For communally shared facilities within nursing homes it will be necessary to make different arrangements for areas of high occupancy such as television rooms, or areas of excessive moisture or odour generation like laundry rooms and cafeteria areas which require ventilation to the outside.