HPAC 'On The Air': Updating ASHRAE Standards on Ultraviolet Testing, with Dean Saputa

*NEW PODCAST* Since the start of the pandemic, research has intensified on the use of UV light to treat air and surfaces. Now, new recommendations for the industry are not far off.

Rob McManamy

April 21, 2022

2 min read

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By necessity, the last two extraordinary years have seen our industry launch many parallel efforts to provide anxious public and private building owners with the best and most up-to-date scientific guidance available. The goal has been to develop and disseminate actionable recommendations that will both protect and reassure wary future operators and occupants of all building types on the subject of public health.

With that in mind, our guest this month is Dean Saputa, an HVAC industry veteran of more than 30 years, and vice president and co-founder of UV Resources, based in Santa Clarita CA. He helped to start that firm in 2005. Saputa also has been very active in ASHRAE, where he is a member of the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force and past chair of the group's Technical Committee 2.9 on Ultraviolet Air and Surface Treatment.

He is the current chair of ASHRAE Standards Committee 185.2, which has been particularly active since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in early 2020. Our discussion here focuses on that committee's ongoing work, which is about to involve some significant, fast-tracked updates.

To view the latest update to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 185.2-2014, click here.
To read Saputa's February 2021 interview with ASHRAE Journal, click here.

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About the Author

Rob McManamy

Editor in Chief

An industry reporter and editor since 1987, McManamy joined HPAC Engineering in September 2017, after three years with BuiltWorlds.com, a Chicago-based media startup focused on tech innovation in the built environment. He has been covering design and construction issues for more than 30 years, having started at Engineering News-Record (ENR) in New York, before becoming its Midwest Bureau Chief in 1990. In 1998, McManamy was named Editor-in-Chief of Design-Build magazine, where he served for four years. He subsequently worked as an editor and freelance writer for Building Design + Construction and Public Works magazines.

A native of Bronx, NY, he is a graduate of both the University of Virginia, and The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Contact him at [email protected].