Updates on the 2022 FGI Guidelines

Read articles and review PowerPoints about the content of the 2022 edition of the FGI Guidelines to learn about changes and new material that improve the documents.

2022 FGI Guidelines: Flexible Design Encouraged

by Heather B. Livingston

Updates to the 2022 FGI Guidelines documents support design flexibility, reflecting changes in technology and practice in the health and residential care industries. The Health Guidelines Revision Committee considered  technology improvements that could reduce space needs, adjustments to patient care spaces that could better support multiple functions and/or patient populations, and modifications to the Guidelines language to encourage designers and facility owners to embrace new technologies. Learn more in this article in Medical Construction & Design.

Acoustic Comfort in Health Care Facilities

Presented by Mandy Kachur and Kurt Rockstroh

At the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in Denver in May 2022, Mandy Kachur, PE, INCE.Bd.Cert., F/INCE-USA, and Kurt Rockstroh, FAIA, FACHA, discussed the FGI Guidelines revision process, the ongoing work of the FGI acoustics committee to revise and update the minimum acoustic requirements included in the Guidelines documents, and specific updates to the 2022 edition.

Alignment of Standards for Facility Ventilation

Bryan Langlands and Michael Sheerin

ASHRAE and FGI have collaborated since 2008 on coordinating standards for ventilation of health care facilities, in conjunction with the American Society for Health Care Engineering. For the last few years, the organizations have continued working together to better align the FGI Guidelines and ASHRAE 170: Ventilation of Health Care Facilities with a goal of making it easier for designers and facility managers to use the documents in planning, designing, constructing, and operating health and residential care facilities.

This article in Health Facilities Management reviews the updates that appear in the 2022 edition of the FGI Guidelines and the 2021 edition of Standard 170, which is included in the Guidelines documents.