Healthcare & Critical Environments
Controls for hospitals, labs, and other critical environments.
Common controls problems
Controls issues to consider when planning work for your buildings.
Pressure relationships
Operators need clear views of pressure relationships in operating rooms, isolation rooms, pharmacies, and cleanrooms. Raw sensor lists can make those relationships difficult to read.
Ventilation compliance
Trending and documentation support review of the applicable ASHRAE 170 air-change and filtration requirements.
Planning controls changes
Controls work in hospitals and data halls needs change control, rollback planning, and a review of redundancy before changes are made.
Tight tolerances and validation
Labs and cleanrooms have specific temperature, humidity, and particulate requirements. Complete, time-stamped, retrievable trend data supports validation and audit review.
How SOMA Controls helps
Build pressure maps, air-change status, and cascade views clinical and lab staff can read.
Plan migration and graphics work around clinical schedules and the visibility required in critical areas.
Configure alarms to flag excursions and trends to support the compliance review in scope.
Recommended services
Explore the services relevant to your controls work.
- Controls AssessmentAssess
Review the system for drift, failed sensors, and overridden points.
- Controls Retrofit & ModernizationModernize
Readable pressure maps, air-change status, and cleanroom cascade views for clinical and lab staff.
- Ongoing Controls SupportSupport
Monitoring and alarm routing for pressure and temperature excursions within the agreed service windows.
- Building Systems IntegrationIntegrate
Integration of CRACs, chillers, and electrical monitoring from different vendors where the installed systems allow.
Documentation and risk
- Documentation needs
Trend records for air changes, pressure, and temperature to support audit review.
Sequence narratives and validation records for regulated spaces.
- Risk considerations
Undetected pressure or ventilation excursions can create patient-safety and compliance risks.
Controls changes without rollback plans put continuity in critical areas at risk.