The Importance of Improving Hygiene in Commercial Restrooms

Course description

This course examines that when specifying commercial restroom fixtures, whether in new construction or renovations, project teams can be equipped to achieve goals regarding aesthetic design as well as improved hygiene. Incorporating these features into commercial restrooms is more important now more than ever before.

Learning objectives

1. Understand the importance of designing commercial restrooms to create a culture of hygiene, reduce the opportunity for user germ transmission, and benefit occupant health by reducing bacteria, multiple touch points, and cross-contamination.
2. Examine best-in-class products such as soap, hand sanitizers, sensor-activated soap dispensers, faucets, and hand dryers with HEPA filters that can improve wellness and enhance the overall hygiene of commercial restrooms.
3. Explore technological and sustainable advances in the commercial restroom space that can improve health and wellness.
4. Describe how sustainability efforts in commercial restrooms can serve the dual purpose of improving user health and how the LEED, WELL, and Fitwel Certification tools can be leveraged to support building owners and designers in the pursuit of improved health and well-being.

This course is currently available only as a lunch-and-learn.