Leading Teaching Hospital to Lower Energy Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint by Optimizing Ventilation of Its Research and Lab Facilities NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aircuity, the smart airside efficiency company, today announced that it has been selected to improve overall energy efficiency and optimize building ventilation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School known for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching and community service. “Because of the enormous energy cost of ventilating these critical environments, lab and research facility managers around the world are looking for ways to be more energy efficient without sacrificing lab safety for their researchers and staff”. said Rob Brierley, president and COO of Aircuity. Aircuity’s OptiNet system, a comprehensive suite of intelligent ventilation measurement and optimization technologies, will be installed in BIDMC’s research laboratories. The system’s Lab Demand Control Ventilation (Lab DCV) technology will continually sense and analyze the lab environments and provide ventilation inputs to adjust the air changes per hour (ACH) in the facilities as needed. By reducing the air changes when lab conditions are determined to be clean—and increasing the ventilation only when needed, Lab DCV helps to maintain safe and energy efficient ventilation to the hospital’s research and lab facilities. In addition, OptiNet’s continuous monitoring provides lab managers with critical information that they can use to analyze and improve lab procedures. “Lab DCV is one of the most impactful solutions that lab managers can implement to achieve the dual objectives of safety and savings.”
