Creature Comforts: Why the Right HVAC System is Critical to Making a Veterinary Hospital Hospitable
1.0 CE Credit Hour
Overview:
This course covers the indoor environment of the veterinary hospital and how a properly designed HVAC system and maintenance procedures can benefit the hospital’s indoor climate, noise and odor propagation, and control the spread of pathogens. The course will explain how, through inspired veterinary hospital design, a veterinary facility can be made to suit the needs of clients, patients and staff and promote the quality of veterinary medicine offered.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how a properly designed HVAC system can control temperature, humidity, noise, odor and pathogen spread within a veterinary hospital.
- Define design measures that can be used to control noise and odor within a veterinary practice or hospital.
- Review the importance of maintenance.
- Identify veterinary spaces that need special attention within the hospital.
Dave Gasser, AIA, NCARB
Since joining BDA Architecture in 1999, Dave Gasser has specialized his Architectural Career in the design of animal care facilities. Over the past twenty-three years, he has completed over 200 animal care facilities, both in the United States and Internationally, with several receiving honors in dvm 360® Hospital Design Awards. Along with programming, conceptualizing and designing facilities, he has also managed many of these projects through their construction.
Gasser is a member of the American Institute of Architects and is licensed in over 20 states. As an expert in animal care architecture, he speaks regularly at major veterinary conferences in the United States and writes articles for several veterinary publications.
This program is approved for 1.0 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE® approval.
