Ceiling Systems for High Performing Healthcare Facilities  

Optimizing Patient Care

Sponsored by ROCKFON

This course is part of the Healthcare Academy

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Few specifications could be as important as those for hospitals and healthcare facilities. The ceiling system plays an important part in the overall healthiness of the building, as well as the patients and staff. Attention should be given to ceiling systems with excellent acoustic performance to cut down on noise that makes staff irritable and inhibits patient healing. The ceiling system can save energy on lighting and cooling. It can help prevent mold and infections with its cleanability. It can be made of recycled and recyclable materials. And a full palette of colors can help create a warm and inviting setting appealing to patients, staff, and visitors alike.

 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Describe the importance of high NRC ceilings in a healthcare environment.
  2. Identify how high-performing ceilings can impact infection control.
  3. Define how ceiling specification increases natural daylighting.
  4. Discuss how high-performing ceilings can affect operations and maintenance in a healthcare setting.
  5. Define the connection between high-performing ceilings and a project’s sustainability goals.
ALL CREDITS

As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.

This course is approved as a Structured Course

This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines

Approved for structured learning

This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia

Approved for Core Learning

This course can be self-reported to the NLAA

Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA

Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours

This course is approved as a core course

Originally published in Architectural Record

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Originally published in July 2020