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NEWS
Converting a Hotel to COVID-19
Isolation Rooms is a Huge HVAC
Challenge
COVID-19 Hotel
Important Prerequisites
With hospitals
and health
centers coming
under severe
pressure due to (COVID-19),
the government of Saudi Arabia
resorted to turning hotel rooms
or regular patient rooms into
COVID-19 Hotel or temporary
precautious quarantine or
isolation rooms, to isolate the
suspected cases. This is being
done in compliance with the
World Health Organization
(WHO) guidelines, and under
the direct supervision of the
Ministry of Health and the
National Center for Disease
Prevention.
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Many may wonder; how can
normal hotel rooms, or regular
patient rooms, be transformed
into temporary precautious
isolation rooms?
The answer is highlighted by Al
Salem Johnson Controls (YORK),
a multi-industry company,
operating in Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen,
and a pioneering provider of
integrated solutions in heating,
ventilation, air conditioning
and refrigeration (HVAC-R),
in addition to fire safety,
security systems and Building
Management Systems.
When converting a regular room
into a precautious isolation
room, there are a number of
basic requirements that should
be met. These include: (1)
Ensuring that the air entering
the room through HVAC
systems is 100% pure and fresh;
(2) continuous maintenance of
negative pressure in the room;
(3) replacing the air inside the
room with fresh air, between 6 to
12 times per hour - depending
on the size of the room; (4)
controlling and maintaining
temperature and humidity at
very specified levels. (5) Filtered
exhaust fans are mandatory; to
ensure that exhausted (expelled)
air containing microbes and
pollutants are filtered before
being released out of the
building.
Director of Product
Management, Sustainability
and Energy Efficiency Policy
at Al Salem Johnson Controls,
Eng. Maher Moussa said: “Al
Salem Johnson Controls has a
number of integrated solutions
and systems that enable HVAC
systems to work with Building
Management Systems as one,
to contribute in the conversion
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