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Hospital COVID Response: Planning Your Next Steps
During the past few months, many hospitals have scrambled to make urgent facility changes to accommodate a surge, or anticipated surge, in patients seeking treatment for the COVID-19 virus. The changes have been hastily made in response to an emergency, and they have...
COVID-19 Strategies for Healthcare Facilities
As health systems scramble to cope with current or anticipated surges of patients infected with COVID-19, engineering strategies are emerging. Some involve renovations in existing healthcare buildings (both operating and previously shuttered) to create more beds for...
Keeping Non-Healthcare Buildings Healthy Under Reduced Occupancy
Healthcare buildings are under extreme operational demands due to the COVID-19 virus. At the same time, non-healthcare buildings may see the reverse conditions, with limited occupancy and sharply reduced operational hours. G/BA offers this guidance to help facilities...
GBA Publishes 2019 Edition of Hospital Energy+Water Survey
Grumman/Butkus Associates has released the latest edition of its annual Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey, focusing on usage and costs for fossil fuels, electricity, and water/sewer.The survey also tracks hospitals' carbon footprint and energy costs per...
ASHRAE Recognizes Seitz Lab Project With International Technology Award
G/BA's renovation of a materials science lab building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been honored with the ASHRAE Technology Award.The firm's project at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory received First Place in the Educational...
Dan Doyle Honored as ASHRAE Fellow
G/BA Illinois Chairman, Daniel L. Doyle, P.E., LEED AP O+M, was named a Fellow of ASHRAE at the association's recent 2020 Winter Conference in Orlando.The Fellow grade of membership recognizes exceptional contributions in the art of engineering. Dan Doyle has been...