Typical project scenario
Hospital Wing Renovation — ICRA-Compliant Dust Control
Healthcare renovation · Texas Medical Center
A Texas Medical Center hospital wing renovation required ICRA Class IV dust containment while adjacent patient rooms remained occupied. HireAVac supplied the source-capture HEPA vacuum that lived inside the contained area for the full 8-week project.
Challenge
ICRA 2.0 Class IV protocols require source-capture HEPA, negative-air containment, and zero migration of particulate to adjacent patient care areas. The infection control coordinator made it explicit: a single complaint from an adjacent room would shut the project down and trigger a re-do of the negative-air balance. The contractor had the negative-air machines and the anteroom built, but their plan to use a contractor-grade shop vac for source-capture would have failed ICR's first inspection. We were brought in 48 hours before mobilization.
Solution
Delivered a HEPA Protector unit pre-bagged for transit through hospital corridors, broken from its bag inside the anteroom. Filter certificate of conformance was added to the project's daily ICRA log. The unit ran continuously at the cutting and demolition stations, with hose pass-throughs gasketed at the containment wall. Weekly filter checks and a written decon procedure for end-of-project breakdown were included. The unit never left containment until the project was complete.
Results
- ICRA Class
- IV — passed every infection-control walk-through
- Adjacent patient-room complaints
- Zero across 8 weeks
- Negative-pressure balance
- Maintained — no rebalance required
- Air sample at containment wall
- At background
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