HumanIC: Human - Centric Indoor Climate for Healthcare Facilities

在欧盟，每年有超过400万医院患者感染医疗保健相关感染(HAI)。此外，全球抗菌素耐药性危机意味着，人类免疫缺陷病毒感染正在带来越来越高的成本和死亡风险。有明确的证据表明，气流控制着空气中病原体的扩散和接触，并决定着以人为中心的气候中关键表面的污染，以人为中心的气候被定义为环绕和靠近人体的微环境。这表明，医疗保健室内环境需要创新，以应对感染控制的挑战，同时提高医院的热舒适性和能源效率。为了实现这一目标，我们必须促进对人们如何接触空气传播病原体的基本了解，并开发新的工具和技术，以实现医疗保健环境的有效设计和运行。具体地说，需要更好地了解气流对肝细胞癌颗粒的局部影响；量化手术等医疗活动中气流和污染物的瞬时行为；开发优化和调整通风系统的方法，以控制不同环境(如手术室和隔离室)的风险；并开发工具，在设计和运营阶段实现与环境的实时交互。人文网络汇集了8个领先的学术团队、4个医疗机构和8个暖通空调行业合作伙伴，旨在通过HC的概念和10名职业生涯早期研究人员的培训来构建一种新的医院环境设计方法，以满足这些需求。人文将创建和传播基础科学和应用科学，以改善知识库，创新设计和操作医院通风和热力系统的新技术，并将感染风险降低至少30%，同时满足热舒适、安全和能源的要求。

Over 4 million hospital patients acquire a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the EU each year. Moreover, the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance means that HAI is posing an increasing cost and risk of mortality. There is clear evidence that airflow controls the dispersion and exposure to airborne pathogens and determines the contamination of critical surfaces in the human-centric climate (HCC), which is defined as the microenvironment which surrounds and is close to a human body. This points to a significant need for innovation in healthcare indoor environments to tackle the challenge of infection control, while improving thermal comfort and energy efficiency in hospitals. To achieve this, we must both advance the fundamental understanding of how people are exposed to airborne pathogens and develop new tools and techniques to enable effective design and operation of healthcare environments. Specifically, there is a need to understand better the local influence of airflows on particles in HCC; quantify the transient behaviour of airflows and contaminants due to healthcare activities like surgery; develop methods for optimising and adapting ventilation systems to control for risks in different environments like operation rooms and isolation rooms; and develop tools to enable real-time interaction with environments during design and operational phases. Bringing together 8 leading academic teams, 4 healthcare facilities and 8 HVAC industry partners, the HumanIC network aims to build a new approach to hospital environmental design through the concept of HCC and the training of 10 Early Career Stage Researchers to address these needs. HumanIC will create and disseminate fundamental and applied science to improve the knowledge base and innovate new technologies for designing and operating hospital ventilation and thermal systems and for reducing infection risk by at least 30%, meanwhile satisfying requirements of thermal comfort, safety and energy.