The ASHE Mechanical Systems Handbook is a comprehensive guide to designing, operating, and maintaining mechanical systems in health care facilities.
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ASHE's Handbook Series and education courses cover topics like project management, compliance, finance, and more for health care facility management.
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Lunch & Learn | STARC | How ICRA 2.0™ Adoption is Impacting Healthcare Construction Jobsites
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Lunch & Learn | Learn through cases studies on how vacuum plumbing has provided “future proofing” for healthcare facilities.
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Lunch & Learn | Understanding Health Care Door Systems | Allegion
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Protect patients, staff and visitors with your awareness of the construction challenges unique to a health care site.
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Lunch & Learn | Grainger | Strategies to Obtain Funding for Fire & Life Safety Compliance
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Lunch & Learn | Learn how you can keep your hospitals and clients safe with up-to-date healthcare flushing best practices that mitigate the risk of Legionella and other waterborne pathogens.
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Lunch & Learn | Become the expert on environmental monitoring of the spaces in healthcare facilities based on ASHRAE-170, USP-797 and USP-800 and understand how to specify proper monitoring devices to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize staff monitoring efforts.
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Two essential resources for ASHE Chapter Leaders.
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Reduce energy consumption at your health care facility with Operation Decarobonization: A Sustainability Game Plan for Health Care Facilities.
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This document outlines a team approach, starting with the health care organization leadership setting the expectations and cyber-risk mitigation tone for the project. When executive leadership empowers information technology, operational technology and facilities professionals, an effective cyber-risk mitigation plan can be enacted. A thoughtful cyber-risk process addresses the safety, efficiency and compliance goals of the health care facility.
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STI shows the best practices for building a solid Standard Operating Procedure for compliance processes in Life Safety barriers in the facility.
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Promote a culture of sustainability in health care and reduce your facility's carbon footprint with the HealQuest program.
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Lunch & Learn Series: | Reducing Risk during Healthcare Emergencies: | Future Trends in Facility Design | Healthcare design engineers and those retrofitting facilities must concentrate on crisis-proofing procedures away from partial load backups to protect patient care from the growing threats to our grid.
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This handbook lays out the processes and flow of a health care project, including planning, design and construction. It takes a sequential approach to each topic, addressing planning first, then the various design phases, construction of the project, and the operations and management throughout the project and following.
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This code overlay will assist health care systems with their decarbonization efforts
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Just Ask ASHE Q3 2023 | Join a panel of code experts to discuss the latest developments on emergency preparedness, CMS and more in regard to codes and standards requirements. Take the opportunity to ask questions that are important to you, your organization and field. The team of experts will share their best approach and highlight the best practices in the field.
Accessing utilities and wiring above the ceiling is essential, but it can be risky. ASHE's Above-Ceiling Tools can help you do it safely.
Compliance Tools
Use this tool to assess your level of adoption of the most common energy conservation measures.