Industrial facilities have traditionally been designed with a primary focus on process requirements, equipment protection, and regulatory compliance.
However, the emergence of healthy building frameworks—supported by ASHRAE Standards 241 and 62.1—has introduced a new paradigm in which occupant well‑being, air quality, resilience, and infection risk mitigation are integrated into HVAC system design.
In this webinar – Designing Industrial Facilities for Life: Applying Healthy Building Frameworks to Large‑Scale Air Conditioning Systems – we will present current applications of healthy building principles within large‑scale industrial air‑conditioning systems, with a focus on industrial manufacturing environments and will examine how temperature, humidity, pressurization, filtration, and ventilation requirements can be aligned with modern health‑focused frameworks.
The proposes of this webinar is to design strategies, discusses implementation challenges, and presents an application scenario illustrating how industrial HVAC systems can be optimized to support both process integrity and human health. The goal is to demonstrate how industrial facilities can be designed «for life»—supporting product quality, operational continuity, and the well‑being of the people who work within them.
About the speaker:
Samir P. Hernández.
HVAC&R Specialist (FEI 2007) and Mechanical Engineer (FEI 2005), brings nearly three decades of experience across multiple industrial projects, EPCM, Validation and O&M. PMP‑certified (PMI 2015) and active in ISPE and ASHRAE, having earned two international awards (ASHRAE 2023, 2025).