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prEN xxxxx -1 : Ventilation for Hospitals. Part 1 - Requirements for ventilation and air-conditioning in general medical locations; components and systems

Scope

The standards on ventilation for hospitals is to be applied to all healthcare premises whether located in a
hospital, clinic or other premises where healthcare services are delivered. It includes specific risk areas and
covers the aspects of construction and ventilation that provide defined levels of air quality/cleanliness for
classification of these areas. The standard will deal with the design, installation, operation and maintenance and the process of qualification/validation of the ventilation systems.

The scope of this first part describes all needed minimum user requirement specification (URS), functional design requirements (FD) and requirements for components in the detailed design (DD) for the air treatment processes that are to be designed, installed, operated and maintained at healthcare premises.

For specific rooms like operating suites, isolation rooms or sterilization rooms additional requirements might be set. This is outside the scope of this general part.