Enthalpy recovery systems really seem like they should be implemented everywhere. Given the benefits for both climate change prevention, pandemic preparedness, mold prevention, VOC health benefits, nightly sound pollution, and cognitive performance via lower CO2 in the room the case seems to me to be very strong. In the European case, reducing dependency on gas is also a nice side effect.
I’m not entirely convinced that UVC systems can be procured and installed cheap enough to be obviously better in 100% of hospitals.
In a hospital setting, you likely care about any additional reduction in hospital-acquired infections. If there’s clear evidence that you can reduce hospital-acquired infections this way, hospitals that don’t adopt the technology can have a problem. You can sue them for malpractice if you get a hospital-acquired infection and they didn’t implement all interventions that can reasonably be used to prevent the infection.
Agree that indoor air systems are an obvious health benefit, but re: hospitals, it’s only malpractice if using the systems is considered standard of care, which requires more than just evidence of efficacy. That said, I suspect that once the evidence is in, unless there is a new safety concern, it will start to get used in most hospitals very quickly, and become the standard of care.
Enthalpy recovery systems really seem like they should be implemented everywhere. Given the benefits for both climate change prevention, pandemic preparedness, mold prevention, VOC health benefits, nightly sound pollution, and cognitive performance via lower CO2 in the room the case seems to me to be very strong. In the European case, reducing dependency on gas is also a nice side effect.
https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/will-balanced-ventilation-be-required-code/ suggests that Aspen already put it into their building code.
In a hospital setting, you likely care about any additional reduction in hospital-acquired infections. If there’s clear evidence that you can reduce hospital-acquired infections this way, hospitals that don’t adopt the technology can have a problem. You can sue them for malpractice if you get a hospital-acquired infection and they didn’t implement all interventions that can reasonably be used to prevent the infection.
Agree that indoor air systems are an obvious health benefit, but re: hospitals, it’s only malpractice if using the systems is considered standard of care, which requires more than just evidence of efficacy. That said, I suspect that once the evidence is in, unless there is a new safety concern, it will start to get used in most hospitals very quickly, and become the standard of care.
Maybe in the U.S., but even then aren’t there lots of hospitals infamous for their low quality of care, high infection rate, etc.?
Why haven’t they all disappeared yet if it were so easy to sue hospitals into adopting superior practices?
It’s not. You need to show that they didn’t meet standard of care, and if no-one does it, it’s not actionable.