With new and emerging water management standards, critical environments such as health care facilities must retool their systems and retrain their workers to provide better care quality and ensure patient safety throughout the built environment.

The biggest project Jordan Haugtvedt has worked on lately ended up getting a big helping hand, thanks to Viega ProPress and MegaPress technology.

Plumbing and HVAC systems inside health care facilities tend to be much more complex than your everyday run of the mill commercial building. 

The 2021 edition delivers critical guidance for designers and operators of these front-line facilities and incorporates 17 addenda to the 2017 edition of the standard.

Over the past year, the pandemic has had great impacts on our mental, physical and social world. 

“We design buildings, but we design for people.” Whenever I begin a project, I think of that statement.