The built environment requires high performance, durable, and sustainable materials to meet the ever-increasing demands for health and safety. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of cleaning and disinfection resulting in re-evaluation of the process for performance testing, product specification requirements, and selection of the appropriate product for the application. It is important to reinforce the need of a multiple attribute approach for product selection versus a single attribute focus that can contribute to premature product failure. In reviewing the perspectives of a design professional, a product manufacturer, and an environmental services and infection control expert, this moderated session will cover the impacts of performance-based specifications in conjunction with the evaluation of disinfection requirements, product service life, and life cycle cost analysis.

Learning Objectives

1. Provide the design perspective on a multiple attribute approach to product selection.
2. Provide the process and approach for cleaning and disinfection of various space types.
3. Provide the manufacturer perspective on minimum performance testing and recommended maintenance procedures.
4. Provide example of collaborative solution-based approach to specifying sustainable, high-performance materials.

Speakers:

Jane M. Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ASID, ACHA, CHID, LEED AP BD+C, GGA – EB, GGF
Principal
JSR Associates, Inc.

Shari L. Solomon, Esq.
President of CleanHealth
Environmental, LLC

Andrea V Hyde, MDCID. NCIDQ, HCID
Senior Project Manager
Interiors Stanford

Sylvia Nash
VP of Healthcare
Kwalu