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of hotel rooms or even regular
hospital rooms into temporary
COVID-19 Hotel precautious
isolation rooms, and prevent
spread of virus and disease
provided that all prerequisites
exist.”
COVID-19 Hotel Isolation
Technology
As a first step, it is necessary
to ensure that windows and
doors are securely isolated,
to ensure that no air from the
outside enters the room, except
from the Air Handling Unit.
Standard COVID-19 Hotel room
precautious isolation technology
relies on controlling the room
pressure differential (negative &
positive pressure). The objective
here is to have the isolated
room under negative pressure
to prevent any virus or bacteria
to be transmitted out of the
isolation room; this prevents the
spread of infection to other parts
of the hotel or hospital.
When converting a regular
room into a precautious
COVID-19 Hotel isolation
room, it is not advisable to
recirculate the air, to avoid
the transmission of microbes
within the room. Hence, it is
essential to have a source that
provides 100% fresh air, and
offers a system for exhausting
contaminated air outside the
building, with the installation
of a controller that monitors
and adjusts the air change rate
per hour. Additionally, room
pressure should be monitored
and maintained lower than the
surrounding zones (negative
pressure). To ensure that the
contaminated air in the room
is safely exhausted out of the
building, the exhaust fan must be
equipped with a high-efficiency
filter (HEPA-filter).
Eng. Moussa said that Al Salem
Johnson Controls is a pioneer in
the field of HVAC and Building
Management Systems, and
offers a number of technologies
and solutions that can be
integrated to fit the requirements
of different applications. He
said, facilities and consultants
should incorporate the basic
requirements at design stage to
enable such technologies upgrade
in future hotels and healthcare
projects, which shall enable
the transformation of regular
rooms into COVID-19 Hotel
precautious quarantine and
isolation rooms in record time,
when required.
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